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Bluebonnet Award Lists

The Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List is one of the most prestigious children’s literature lists in the country. Students, parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and authors eagerly await the yearly release.

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1995-1996

Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause  |  Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave by Marianna Mayer
Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson  |  Big Bug Book by Margery Facklam  |  Bigger by Patricia Calvert



Dark Stairs by Betsy Byars  |  Face in Bessledorf Funeral Parlor by Phyllis Rreynolds Naylor
Hero of Bremen by Margareet Hodges  |  Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns by Mary Quattlebaum  |  Jim-Dandy by Hadley Irwin




Mummies & Their Mysteries by Charlotte WIlcox
Piñata Maker/El Piñatero by George Ancona  |  Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World of Art by Philip M. Isaacson
Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan Smoky Night by Eve Bunting




Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson Sweetest Fig by Chris Van Allsburg
Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell  |  Wainscott Weasel by Tor Seidler