Bluebonnet Award - Children's (Awarded by Texas Library Association)

Awards List

2016

The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
(Nominee)
Christopher Healy

Mountain Dog
(Nominee)
Margarita Engle

Sky Jumpers
(Nominee)
Peggy Eddleman

Spelling Trouble
(Nominee)
Frank Cammuso

The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing
(Nominee)
Sheila Turnage

The Lost Planet
(Nominee)
Rachel Searles

Zane and the Hurricane
(Nominee)
Rodman Philbrick

The Scraps Book
(Nominee)
Lois Ehlert

The Vanishing Coin
(Nominee)
Kate Egan; Mike Lane

The Night Gardener
(Nominee)
Jonathan Auxier

Saving Lucas Biggs
(Nominee)
Marisa de los Santos; David Teague

Emily's Blue Period
(Nominee)
Cathleen Daly

Quinny & Hopper
(Nominee)
Adriana Schanen

Always, Abigail
(Nominee)
Nancy Cavanaugh

2015

The Day the Crayons Quit
(Winner)
Drew Daywalt

The Year of the Book
(Nominee)
Andrea Cheng

Liar & Spy
(Nominee)
Rebecca Stead

Lester's Dreadful Sweaters
(Nominee)
Kids Can Press

The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck
(Nominee)
Emily Fairlie

Pickle*: *The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School
(Nominee)
Kim Baker

Dead City
(Runner-Up)
James Ponti

Dead City
(Nominee)
James Ponti

Athlete vs. Mathlete
(Nominee)
W.C. Mack

Odette's Secrets
(Nominee)
Maryann Macdonald

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
(Second Place)
Liesl Shurtliff

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
(Nominee)
Liesl Shurtliff

Spy Camp
(Nominee)
Stuart Gibbs

The Frog Who Croaked
(Nominee)
Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The Neptune Project
(Nominee)
Polly Holyoke

The Day the Crayons Quit
(Nominee)
Drew Daywalt

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo

Pickle*: *The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School
(Third Place)
Kim Baker

2014

Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the School Bus
(Winner)
John Grandits

Walls Within Walls
(Nominee)
Maureen Sherry

Ghetto Cowboy
(Nominee)
G. Neri

Bake Sale
(Nominee)
Sara Varon

Waiting for the Magic
(Nominee)
Patricia MacLachlan

Glory Be
(Nominee)
Augusta Scattergood

The One and Only Ivan
(Nominee)
Katherine Applegate

Wonder
(Nominee)
R.J. Palacio

Freaky Fast Frankie Joe
(Nominee)
Lutricia Clifton

The Humming Room
(Nominee)
Ellen Potter

Giants Beware!
(Nominee)
Jorge Aguirre

Tua and the Elephant
(Nominee)
R.P. Harris

Fairest of All
(Nominee)
Sarah Mlynowski

Flying the Dragon
(Nominee)
Natalie Dias Lorenzi

Jangles
(Nominee)
David Shannon

2013

Postcards from Camp
(Winner)
Simms Taback

Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie
(Nominee)
Julie Sternberg

Misty Gordon and the Mystery of the Ghost Pirates
(Nominee)
Kim Kennedy

Ruth And The Green Book
(Nominee)
Calvin A. Ramsey

Benjamin Franklinstein Lives!
(Nominee)
Matthew McElligott; Larry Tuxbury

Hamster Magic
(Nominee)
Lynne Jonell

Hero
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Zita the Spacegirl
(Nominee)
Ben Hatke

Ellray Jakes Is Not a Chicken!
(Nominee)
Sally Warner

Under the Mambo Moon
(Nominee)
Julia Durango

Wonderstruck
(Nominee)
Brian Selznick

The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
(Nominee)
Carmen Agra Deedy

Escape Under the Forever Sky
(Nominee)
Eve Yohalem

2012

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Winner)
Tom Angleberger

The Storm in the Barn
(Nominee)
Matt Phelan

The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
(Nominee)
Mac Barnett

Imogene's Last Stand
(Nominee)
Candace Fleming

The Duchess of Whimsy
(Nominee)
Randall de Seve

Wild Times at the Bed & Biscuit
(Nominee)
Joan Carris

Happenstance Found
(Nominee)
P.W. Catanese

The "Extraordinary" Mark Twain
(Nominee)
Barbara Kerley

The Hallelujah Flight
(Nominee)
Phil Bildner

The Case of the Lost Boy
(Nominee)
Dori Hillestad Butler

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
(Nominee)
Marilyn Singer

Out of My Mind
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

Turtle in Paradise
(Nominee)
Jennifer L. Holm

The Shadows
(Nominee)
Jacqueline West

2011

The Uglified Ducky
(Winner)
Willy Claflin

Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

The Hinky-Pink
(Nominee)
Megan McDonald

That Book Woman
(Nominee)
Heather Henson

Home of the Brave
(Nominee)
Katherine Applegate

Sparrow Girl
(Nominee)
Sara Pennypacker

Dying to Meet You
(Second Place)
Kate Klise

Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow
(Nominee)
James Rollins

Umbrella Summer
(Nominee)
Lisa Graff

11 Birthdays
(Third Place)
Wendy Mass

2010

Help Me, Mr. Mutt!
(Winner)
Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

Where I Live
(Nominee)
Eileen Spinelli

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
(Second Place)
Carmen Agra Deedy

Piper Reed, Navy Brat
(Nominee)
Kimberly Willis Holt

Maybelle in the Soup
(Nominee)
Katie Speck

Two-Minute Drill
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Surprises According to Humphrey
(Nominee)
Betty G. Birney

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
(Nominee)
Jeanne Birdsall

Savvy
(Nominee)
Ingrid Law

Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
(Third Place)
Lenore Look

2009

One Potato, Two Potato
(Winner)
Cynthia DeFelice

Toys Go Out
(Nominee)
Emily Jenkins

Winner's Walk
(Nominee)
Nancy Ruth Patterson

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Nominee)
Brian Selznick

Gabriel's Horses
(Nominee)
Alison Hart

2008

On the Road
(Winner)
Lucy A. Nolan

Greatest Skating Race
(Nominee)
Louise Borden

Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
(Nominee)
Obert Skye

Chicken Boy
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

The Ghost's Grave
(Nominee)
Peg Kehret

Hubert Invents the Wheel
(Nominee)
Claire Montgomery

Who Stole Halloween?
(Nominee)
Martha Freeman

Pompeii: Lost & Found
(Nominee)
Mary Pope Osborne

Roxie and the Hooligans
(Nominee)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Double Identity
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Weedflower
(Nominee)
Cynthia Kadohata

2007

So B. It
(Nominee)
Sarah Weeks

Toughest Cowboy
(Nominee)
John Frank

Big House
(Nominee)
Carolyn Coman

The Magician's Boy
(Nominee)
Susan Cooper

The Lightning Thief
(Nominee)
Rick Riordan

2006

Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta
(Winner)
Lisa Wheeler

Olive's Ocean
(Nominee)
Kevin Henkes

Circle Unbroken
(Nominee)
Margot Theis Raven

Selavi, That Is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope
(Nominee)
Youme Landowne

Christopher Mouse
(Nominee)
William Wise

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

2005

Lewis and Clark and Me
(Nominee)
Laurie Myers

Locomotion
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Gorillas of Gill Park
(Nominee)
Amy Gordon

Lord of the Deep
(Nominee)
Graham Salisbury

2004

Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy
(Winner)
Phil Bildner

Goin' Someplace Special
(Nominee)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

Leonardo's Horse
(Nominee)
Jean Fritz

Mercedes and the Chocolate Pil
(Nominee)
Margot Theis Raven

2003

The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring
(Winner)
Ruth Sanderson

Esperanza Rising
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

The Yellow Star
(Nominee)
Carmen Agra Deedy

The Other Side
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
(Nominee)
Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

The School Story
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

2002

Because of Winn-Dixie
(Winner)
Kate DiCamillo

The Landry News
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Bud, Not Buddy
(Nominee)
Christopher Paul Curtis

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
(Nominee)
Kimberly Willis Holt

The Doll People
(Nominee)
Ann M. Martin

2001

Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!
(Winner)
Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

26 Fairmount Avenue
(Nominee)
Tomie DePaola

Weslandia
(Nominee)
Paul Fleischman

2000

The Ghost of Fossil Glen
(Winner)
Cynthia DeFelice

Tomas & the Library Lady
(Nominee)
Pat Mora

I Was a Third Grade Science Project
(Nominee)
Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

1999

Verdi
(Winner)
Janell Cannon

1998

Tornado
(Winner)
Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

1997

Math Curse
(Winner)
Jon Scieszka

1996

Time for Andrew
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

1995

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
(Winner)
Jon Scieszka

1994

Shiloh
(Winner)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1993

The Houdini Box
(Winner)
Brian Selznick

1992

Snot Stew
(Winner)
Bill Wallace
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1991

Aliens for Breakfast
(Winner)
Stephanie Spinner

1990

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
(Winner)
Louis Sachar

1989

Wait Till Helen Comes
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

1988

Christina's Ghost
(Winner)
Betty Ren Wright

1987

The Hot and Cold Summer
(Winner)
Johanna Hurwitz

1986

The Dollhouse Murders
(Winner)
Betty Ren Wright

1985

Skinnybones
(Winner)
Barbara Park
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1984

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
(Winner)
Barthe DeClements

1983

A Dog Called Kitty
(Winner)
Bill Wallace
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1982

Superfudge
(Winner)
Judy Blume

1981

Ramona and Her Father
(Winner)
Beverly Cleary

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