The Texas Bluebonnet Award reading program encourages Texas children to read more books, explore a variety of current books, develop powers of discrimination, and identify their favorite books. The award process provides librarians, teachers, parents, and writers with insight into young students' reading preferences. It further affords an opportunity to honor and encourage imaginative authors who create books with high appeal to children.
| One-Handed Catch |
Mary Jane Auch. (New York: H. Holt and Co.) J FIC AUC |
| Atherton: the House of Power |
Patrick Carman. (New York: Little, Brown) J SCF CAR |
| The Middle of Somewhere |
J. B. Cheaney. (New York: Knopf) J FIC CHE |
| Tall Tales |
Karen Day. (New York: Wendy Lamb Books) J FIC DAY |
| One Potato, Two Potato |
Cynthia DeFelice. (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux) E FIC DEF |
| Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings |
Douglas Florian. (Orlando: Harcourt) J 811.54 FL |
| The Thing About Georgie |
Lisa Graff. (New York: Laura Geringer Books) J FIC GRA |
| Just Grace |
Charise Mericle Harper. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin) J FIC HAR |
| Gabriel’s Horses |
Alison Hart. (Atlanta : Peachtree) J FIC HAR |
| Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic |
Emily Jenkins. (New York: Schwartz & Wade) J FIC JEN |
| What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms, and Pajamas |
Patricia Lauber. (New York: Simon & Schuster) J 392.36 LA |
| Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor |
Emily Arnold McCully. (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux) J 921 KN |
| How to Steal a Dog |
Barbara O’Connor. (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux) J FIC OCO |
| The Winner’s Walk |
Nancy Ruth Patterson. (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux) J FIC PAT |
| Lawn Boy |
Gary Paulsen. (New York: Wendy Lamb Books) J FIC PAU |
| The Invention of Hugo Cabre: A Novel in Words and Pictures |
Brian Selznick. (New York: Scholastic Press) J FIC SEL |
| This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness |
Joyce Sidman. (Boston: Houghton) |
| Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon |
Catherine Thimmesh. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin) J 629.454 TH |
| Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom |
Tim Tingle. (El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press) J 398.23 TI |
| Way Down Deep |
Ruth White. (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux) J FIC WHI |
