1. 2017-2018 William Allen White Children’s Book Awards master lists
Michelle Hammond Beverley Buller
Executive Director Selection Committee chairperson

2. https://drive. google. com/file/d/0B46lhLUWGo-gQ3FjeDc1NDJCNU0/view

3. BRINGING AUTHORS, BOOKS, AND CHILDREN TOGETHER!

4. A lot has changed since Ruth Garver Gagliardo created the award and served as its first selection committee chairperson…but the structure she developed remains.
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5. Make up of the selection committee
ESU/The Teachers College
ESU/School of Library and Information Management
Kansas Association for Childhood Education International
Kansas Association of Elementary School Principals
Kansas Association for Family and Community Education
Kansas Association for Middle Level Education
Kansas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Kansas Association of School Librarians
Kansas Association of Teachers of English
Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers
Kansas Library Association - Children's and School Libraries Section
Kansas National Education Association
Kansas Reading Association
Kansas State Department of Education
There are also 4 members-at-large and 2 permanent members who vote.

6. Selection committee process
*Members must read at least 50% of nominated books to participate in selection. Executive director & secretary & committee chair do not vote.
*Only books read by at least 60% of those present at the meeting can be considered.
*For a title to be placed on the list following discussion of it, at least 60% of those who read it must vote for its placement.
*Titles are first chosen for the list without regard for age division. Once nominations cease, the lists are divided into grades 3 to 5 & grades 6 to 8.
*Before we finalize the lists, there is opportunity to reconsider any titles chosen.
*Publishers must sign and return a contract stating the book will remain in print through the award year (2018) and that the author would come to Emporia should their book win the award.

7. Grades 3 to 5

8. CRENSHAW by Katherine Applegate Feiwel & Friends

9. THE AMAZING AGE OF JOHN ROY LYNCH by Chris Barton Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers

10. CIRCUS MIRANDUS by Cassie Beasley Dial Books for Young Readers

11. GEORGE by Alex Gino Scholastic Press

12. FISH IN A TREE by Lynda Mullaly Hunt Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin

13. A HANDFUL OF STARS by Cynthia Lord Scholastic Press

14. THE BOOK ITCH: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Carolrhoda Books/Lerner

15. LUCKY STRIKE by Bobbie Pyron Arthur A. Levine

16. POET: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate Peachtree Publishers

17. FUNNY BONES: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh Abrams Books for Young Readers

18. Grades six to eight

19. THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Dial Books

20. DROWNED CITY: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

21. STELLA BY STARLIGHT by Sharon M
STELLA BY STARLIGHT by Sharon M. Draper Atheneum Books for Young Readers

22. ENCHANTED AIR: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle Atheneum Books for Young Readers

23. TOOK: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn Clarion Books

24. ROLLER GIRL by Victoria Jamieson Dial Books for Young Readers

25. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CRAZY HORSE by Joseph Marshall III Amulet

26. THE NEST by Kenneth Oppel Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

27. THE SEVENTH MOST IMPORTANT THING by Shelley Pearsall Random House Children’s Books

28. ECHO by Pam Munoz Ryan Scholastic Press

29. VOICE OF FREEDOM: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford Candlewick Press

30. QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS We value your input and thank you for your support of the program

31. Thank you for attending our session
Thank you for attending our session! Remember, voting for the 2017 awards opens in January and ends April 15. Since that’s on a Saturday this year, you can have until 7:30 a.m. Monday, April 17 to enter your votes! The 2017 awards ceremony will be Saturday, October 7 at Emporia State University.