2012 White Award Book Winners Announced
 

White award celebration

Two books about young girls dealing with growing pains have been judged the best by Kansas schoolchildren.

“11 Birthdays” by Wendy Mass (Scholastic Books) and “Confetti Girl” by Diana Lopez (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) are the recipients of the 2012 William Allen White Children’s Book Awards.

The William Allen White Children’s Book Award program was founded in 1952 by Ruth Garver Gagliardo, a specialist in children’s literature for Emporia State University. One of the few literary awards that asks young readers to choose the winners, the program is directed by Emporia State University and supported in part by the Trusler Foundation.

Both authors have been invited to the awards celebration, set for Saturday, Oct. 6, in Emporia. 

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Meet the Authors

Lopez
Diana López, is the author of the adult novella, Sofia’s Saints, published by Bilingual Review Press in 2002, and the middle grade novel, Confetti Girl, published by Little Brown in 2009. She is also one of the featured authors in Hecho en Tejas, an anthology of writing by Texas-Mexicans (University of New Mexico Press, 2007). Her short stories have appeared inChicago Quarterly Review, Sycamore Review, and New Texas Journal. She has been featured on NPR’s Latino USA and is the 2004 winner of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, sponsored by author Sandra Cisneros. Diana teaches English at the University of Houston in Victoria Texas.

http://www.dianalopezbooks.com/



11 Birthdays book coverMassWendy Mass is the New York Times best selling author of twelve novels for young people (which have been translated into 14 languages and nominated for 50 state book awards), including A Mango-Shaped Space (which was awarded the Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association), Leap Day, the Twice Upon a Time fairy tale series, Every Soul a Star, 11 Birthdays, Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, and Finally. Her most recent books are The Candymakersand 13 Gifts. Wendy wrote the storyline for an episode of the television showMonk, entitled "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre," which aired during the show's second season. She tells people her hobbies are hiking and photography, but really they're collecting candy bar wrappers and searching for buried treasure with her metal detector. 

http://www.wendymass.com/

 

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