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Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award Winners

The Tomás Rivera Award is presented annually by Texas State University, in honor of author Tomás Rivera, a native of Crystal City, Texas, who was the first Mexican American to be selected Distinguished Alumnus at Texas State University. This children's book award is an effort to sustain Rivera's view of Mexican Americans as a healthy and responsible community, and reaffirms his hope for the education of Mexican Americans in the Southwest and the greater United States.

2006	Downtown Boy	Juan Felipe Herrera (Scholastic Press) Y FIC Her
2005	José! Born to Dance	Susanna Reich, illustrated by Raúl Colón (Simon & Schuster)
2004	Becoming Naomi León	Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic Press/Scholastic Inc.) J FIC Rya
2003	Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book	Yuyi Morales (Chronicle Books) E FIC Mor
2002	A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Inés	Pat Mora, illustrated by Beatriz Vidal (Alfred A. Knopf) E 921 Ju
2001	Breaking Through	Francisco Jiménez (Houghton Mifflin) Y FIC Jim
2000	My Very Own Room/Mi propio cuartito	Amada Irma Pérez, illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children's Book Press) E FIC Per SPA ENG
1999	My Land Sings: Stories from the Rio Grande	Rudolfo Anaya, illustrated by Amy Córdova (Morrow Junior Books) J FIC Ana
1998	The Three Pigs: Nacho, Tito, and Miguel	Bobbi Salinas (Piñata Publications) E FIC Sal SPA ENG
1997	Tomás and the Library Lady	Pat Mora, illustrated by Raúl Colón (Knopf) E FIC Mor
1996	In My Family/En mi familia	Carmen Lomas Garza (Children's Book Press) E 306.85 Lo SPA ENG
1995	Chato's Kitchen	Gary Soto, illustrated by Susan Guevara (Putnam's) E FIC Sot AC E FIC Sot SPA (spanish)
	The Farolitos of Christmas	Rudolfo Anaya, illustrated by Edward Gonzales (Hyperion Books) E CC Ana

For more information visit the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award page.

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