"When we make things easy for children, we truly make them more difficult."      Eleanor Roosevelt

    Children's literature provides powerful learning and entertainment opportunities that are catalysts to creativity and research.  The Texas Bluebonnet Book Master List^SM was selected by the Texas Bluebonnet Award Committee of the Texas Library Association. To see internet extensions for each book, click on the title.  To order a book, click on the title and then click on the title again on the linked page. If you are interested in Forged in the Fire, the 200-page activity guide for these books,  please contact Suzy Red.

Aliki. William Shakespeare and the Globe
Bonners, Susan.  The Silver Balloon
Burleigh, Robert.  Home Run
Coleman, Evelyn.  The Riches of Osceola McCarty
Corpi, Lucha.  Where Fireflies Dance
Cullen, Lynn.  The Mightiest Heart--- Runner Up
dePaola, Tomie.  26 Fairmount Avenue
Fleischman, Paul.  Weslandia--- Runner Up
Fletcher, Ralph.  Flying Solo
Holt, Kimberly Willis.  Mister and Me
Ignus, Toyomi.  I See the Rhythm
Jenkins, Steve.  The Top of the World:  Climbing Mount Everest
Kehret, Peg.  Shelter Dogs--- Runner Up
Lourie, Peter.  Rio Grande:  From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico
McCully, Emily Arnold.An Outlaw Thanksgiving
Montgomery, Sy.  The Snake Scientist
Ryan, Pam Munox.  Riding Freedom--- Runner Up
Stevens and  Crummel-- Cook-A-Doodle-Doo ***** WINNER!****
Weeks, Sara.  Regular Guy --- Runner Up
Wells, Rosemary.  Mary on Horseback

Bluebonnet Books^SM, 1999-2000
Bluebonnet Books^SM, 2001-2002

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Texas Bluebonnet Award^SM is a service mark of the Texas Library Association, which is in no way affiliated with Kids' Wings or Suzy Red. Use of the Texas Bluebonnet Award mark in these materials does not imply any endorsement of any kind on behalf of the Texas Library Association. The Texas Bluebonnet Book Master List^SM was selected by the Texas Bluebonnet Award Committee of the Texas Library Association.