What is the William Allen White Award?
The William Allen White Children’s Book Award is awarded to two authors each year. Children in Kansas decide who those authors will be from two lists of nominated books. This coming school year, 2009-2010, there are nine books on the third-fifth grade list and 11 on the sixth-eighth grade list. This award was the first state award that the children in that state had the opportunity to choose the winner. It was started in 1952 in honor of William Allen White, a famous newspaper editor from Emporia who has a very well-known author and the winner of two Pulitzer prizes in literature. Children may vote with their class or individually online until April 15 with the winners announced on the official Web site in late April or early May.
The Official William Allen White Children's Book Awards site
Did You Know?
William Allen White was a good friend of several American Presidents and was particularly close to Theodore Roosevelt.
The 2008-2009 William Allen White Children’s Book Award Winners:
The 2009-2010 William Allen White Children’s Book Award Nominees:
Third-Fifth Grade
A Friendship for Today by Patricia C. McKissack
Bravo Zulu, Samantha by Kathleen Benner Duble
Dexter the Tough by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge
Seeing Sky-Blue Pink by Candice Ransom’
The Rising Star of Rusty Nail by Lesley M.M.Blume
Way Down Deep by Ruth White
Sixth-Eighth Grade
Billy Creekmore by Tracey Porter
Cracker! The Best Dog in Viet Nam by Cynthia Kadohata
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White by Beverley Olson Buller
Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac: A Civil War Novel by Avi
Leap of Faith by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Leepike Ridge by Nathan D. Wilson
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
Schooled by Gordon Korman
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