LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 1991-1992

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1991-1992

Snot Stew by Bill Wallace; Lisa McCue (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction WA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0823407454
Publication Date: 1989-04-01
Brother and sister cats are taken in by a family and learn the pleasures and dangers of living alongside humans.

American Family Farm by Joan Anderson | Bingo Brown and the Language of Love by Betsy Byars
Diane Good Book of American Folk Tales & Songs by Ann Durrell | Giraffes, the Sentinels of Savannas by Helen Roney Sattler
Grasshopper Summer by Ann Turner

Bingo Brown and the Language of Love by Betsy Byars; Cathy Bobak (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction BY (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0670827916
Publication Date: 1989-05-01
As twelve-year-old Bingo Brown strives for the triumphs of today and steels himself against the tribulations of tomorrow, he discovers that he will have to undergo a few more trials and triumphs before growing up.

Giraffes, the Sentinels of the Savannas by Helen R. Sattler; Christopher Santoro (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-599.73 SAT (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780688082857
Publication Date: 1990-04-01
Discusses the physical characteristics, habits, natural environment, and relationship to human beings of giraffes. Includes a glossary giving the popular and scientific name of each species and details of their size and appearance.

Grasshopper Summer by Ann Warren Turner
Call Number: J-Fiction TU (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0027895114
Publication Date: 1989-05-31
In 1874 eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.

The Place My Words Are Looking For : What Poets Say About and Through Their Work by Paul B. Janeczko
Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder | Shaka : King of the Zulus by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
Sky Dogs by Jane Yolen

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
Call Number: J-Fiction RE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0027758109
Publication Date: 1989-11-30
At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly goes to live with the uncle he considers a traitor because he refused to take part in the war.

Shaka, King of the Zulus by Diane Stanley; Peter Vennema
Call Number: J-968 CHA (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780688073428
Publication Date: 1988-09-01
A biography of the nineteenth-century military genius and Zulu chief.

Stonewords : a Ghost Story by Pam Conrad | Storms by Seymour Simon | Stringbean's Trip to Shining Sea by Vera B. Williams
Talking Eggs : a Folktale from the American South by Robert D. San Souci
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Talking Eggs : a folktale from the American South by Robert D. San Souci; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy SAN (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780803706194
Publication Date: 1989-09-29
A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka; Lane Smith (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy SCI (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670827596
Publication Date: 1989-10-01
The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox | The Wall by Eve Bunting | Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice
Weird Wolf by Margery Cuyler | Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree : an Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston

The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox
Call Number: J-FIction FO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780531057889
Publication Date: 1949-01-01
When her father enters the hospital to have open-heart surgery, ten-year-old Emma is sent to Peconic Bay to live with her tormented aunt and finds the experience painful until she meets a friend who suggests making a miniature village in the sand.

The Wall by Eve Bunting; Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy BU (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 0395515882
Publication Date: 1990-04-23
A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.

Weasel by Cynthia C. DeFelice
Call Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0027264572
Publication Date: 1990-04-01
Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.

Weird Wolf by Margery Cuyler; Dirk Zimmer (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction CU (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0805008357
Publication Date: 1989-10-01
When Harry Walpole discovers he is a werewolf, his attempts to break the curse are unsuccessful until he is aided by his pushy friend Abby.

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Barbara Cooney (Illustrator); Gloria Houston
Call Number: Easy HO (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 080370299X
Publication Date: 1988-09-30
When Papa left for the war, Ruthie and her mother wonder how they would get the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration.

Bluebonnet Award Lists

Snot Stew