Talk:Mark Twain Readers Award

Clean up needs
Ok, first, there's a separate article Mark Twain Award which should probably be merged somehow. Second, it's obvious no one is keeping this up to date (I'm not volunteering but I'll do what I can as I drive by). Third, there is a real lack of quality control overall. This is a worthwhile article on a worthwhile subject (hey, the kids select the books,not some faceless panel) so show it some love my fellow Missouri liberrians, ok? -- Quartermaster (talk) 13:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, the anal retentive librarian in me led to an initial pass at clean-up. The "rules" as listed I don't think are quite accurate and need to be looked at and fixed. Also did a redirect from Mark Twain Award and pasted in the definition from there. -- Quartermaster (talk) 13:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Tasks to do
Best first thing to do would be to work on getting an article up for each of the winning books, and for each of the winning books' authors. This isn't going to happen quickly, so I'm hoping some of us will just chip away at this. --Quartermaster (talk) 17:55, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Requested move
I propose this page be moved to Mark Twain Award, since there's only one award per year. DH85868993 (talk) 14:31, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support move per Naming conventions (plurals). "Mark Twain Award" already redirects here. Station1 (talk) 04:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Set of 4 Missouri children's choice awards
For some time--at last since 2008/2009-- the venerable Mark Twain Award is one of 4 annual Missouri Association of School Librarians children's choice book awards that are distinguished by the school grade-levels of the voters. --The MASL Readers Awards There are multiple internet locations (websites, archives, blogs, facebooks, whatever), mainly with recent-, current-, and next-year features. Above I have linked the four "Previous Winners" that I find in the four "Archives". Evidently they are updated irregularly, and it is not clear that each begins at the beginning. The four top pages (for example, Gateway) do not say when their featured awards were inaugurated.
 * K-3, Show Me --winners 1995 to 2011
 * 4-6, Mark Twain --winners 1972 to 2010; add: winners 1990 to 2013
 * 6-8, Truman --winners 2008/09 to 2012/13
 * 9-12, Gateway winners 2003/04 to 2011/12

--P64 (talk) 18:18, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * For the Mark Twain Award per se, I found a regional library source that covers the missing years and used it to complete our list, section 3 Winners. That library provides several award lists (some with catalog links, cover images, or both).
 * MRiverRL: (Kids) Award Lists
 * MRiverRL: Teens Award Lists
 * Those lists cover all 4 MASL children's choice awards with current and recent lists of nominees, and lists of previous winners for Show Me (winners 1995 to 2013) and Mark Twain (winners 1990 to 2013).
 * --P64 (talk) 19:05, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

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