{"id":4345,"date":"2022-06-11T09:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2022-06-11T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T09:45:22","slug":"june-texas-author-awards-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=4345","title":{"rendered":"June Texas Author Awards Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t even think about forgetting how talented the authors are in the Lone Star State. Read below to hear about winners of recent awards.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mom\u2019s Choice Awards<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Amanda M. Thrasher’s<\/span><\/b> Stranger in a Mushroom Patch <\/i>was a 2022 <\/span>Mom\u2019s Choice Awards Gold Recipient for Children’s Books. (This book and series will be on tour with <\/span>Lone Star Book Blog Tours<\/a><\/span> later this month!)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Mom\u2019s Choice Awards<\/a><\/span> evaluates products and services created for children, families, and educators. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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National Jewish Books Award<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewish Book Council awarded a <\/span><\/span><\/span>National Jewish Book Award<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span>for Children’s Picture Book to Dallas author Nancy Churnin for Dear Mr. Dickens (Albert Whitman and Co.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Jew\u00adish Book Coun\u00adcil is a non\u00adprof\u00adit orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded to edu\u00adcat\u00ading, enrich\u00ading and strength\u00aden\u00ading the com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty through Jew\u00adish lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Dickens<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span> has also won a 2021 <\/span>Sydney Taylor<\/span> Honor Book award from the Association of Jewish Libraries; is a 2022 Junior Library Guild selection; is on Tablet Magazine\u2019s<\/i> Best Jewish Children\u2019s Book List of 2021 and Chicago Public Library\u2019s Best Informational Books for Younger Readers for 2021; and received a starred review from School Library Journal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bram Stoker Awards<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy, announced this year\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span>Bram Stoker Awards<\/span><\/a><\/span> winners at its first in-person ceremony since 2019 during StokerCon\u2122 at Denver, Colorado\u2019s Curtis Hotel.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My Heart Is a Chainsaw<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span> by Stephen Graham Jones<\/b> took the top award for <\/b>Superior Achievement in a Novel.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Am\u00e9ricas Awards<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

David Bowles’s<\/span><\/b><\/span> My Two Border Towns<\/span><\/i> & Gloria Amescua’s<\/b> Child of The Flower-Song People<\/i> won the <\/span>Am\u00e9ricas Award<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Am\u00e9ricas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected nonfiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or the Latinx community in the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere. The award is sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP), and coordinated by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Vanderbilt University.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The winning books are honored each fall at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, in a celebration coinciding with Hispanic Heritage Month.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Authors Marketing International <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Authors Marketing International <\/a><\/span>awarded The Baby with Three Families, Two Countries, and One Promise<\/i>: An International Adoption Story <\/i>(Bayou City Press) by Julie Gianelloni Connor<\/b> its 2022 Grand Prize in the Children\u2019s Picture Book category. (Click to visit the <\/span>Lone Star Book Blog Tours tour page<\/a><\/span>.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In related news, Bayou City Press, owned by Julie Gianelloni Connor, has been selected by the New World Report Magazine<\/i> as the \u201cBest Publishing Company 2022\u201d for its Texas Business Awards 2022. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Says Connor, \u201cWe are sure that there are a lot of publishers in Texas who would beg to differ with that assessment, but here at BCP we think that, as a brand-new publisher starting out in 2019, just surviving the last two years qualifies us for any and all awards\u2014for grit, determination, tenacity, and of course for having published two award-winning books, with a third on the way!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Christopher Award<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Austin-based author\/illustrator Don Tate<\/b> was honored with a second <\/span><\/span><\/span>Christopher Award <\/span><\/a>for the book <\/span><\/span>Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes<\/span><\/span><\/i>, (Abrams Books for Young Readers), for children aged 8 and up. The book is one of 12 for adults and young people chosen as the Awards mark their 73rd<\/sup> year. The authors join writers, producers, and directors of 10 winning TV\/cable and feature films. Tate’s first Christopher Award in 2016 was for Poet<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lone Star Literary Life featured authors Diana Lopez, Nancy Churnin (x2), David Bowles, Christina Soontornvat, Chris Barton, Benjamin Alire S<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00e1<\/span>enz, Cynthia Leitich Smith (x2), Margarita Longoria, Kathi Appelt, Varian Johnson, Gloria Amescua<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span>, & Lisa Fipps<\/b><\/span><\/span> have books named to the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>! <\/span><\/span>(Apologies to any <\/span><\/span>Texas authors we may have<\/span><\/span> missed.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Children\u2019s Book Committee strives to guide librarians, educators, parents, grandparents, and other interested adults to the best books for children published each year. The titles are chosen by reviewers for literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Other criteria include credibility of characterization and plot, authenticity of time and place, age suitability, positive treatment of ethnic and religious differences, and the absence of stereotypes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Semi-regular Texas author awards roundup<\/p>\n

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