Talk:William Allen White Children's Book Award

Venerable
quote: "It was the first statewide readers' choice book award in the United States.[2]"

So it's the oldest ongoing US state-wide children's choice book award. We also have a page for the second oldest, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Vermont 1957. Source: examination of websites for such awards in 48 states; not found for Alaska and Idaho, which participate in the regional PNW YRCA.

We have pages for such awards in 8 states and the regional Pacific NorthWest Young Reader's Choice Award, inaugurated 1940.

--P64 (talk) 17:33, 5 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I changed that from "first statewide readers' choice" to "oldest statewide children's choice". Now I find the stronger claim that I replaced was probably a quotation from the 2009 ?press release (or an earlier one), as was some other wording that I revised.
 * --P64 (talk) 20:55, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Master Lists
All are online. Briefly:
 * 2013-14 (Title, Author, Cover image, Synopsis, Publisher, Date): 18 books == 8 grades 3-5, 10 grades 6-8, all dated 2011
 * 2007-08 (Author, Title, Publisher, Date; ISBN, Other formats, Subject, Synopsis): 25 books == 12 grades 3-5, 13 grades 6-8, all dated 2005
 * 2004-05 (Author, Title, Publisher, ISBN, Subject, Synopsis): 31 books == 14 grades 3-5, 17 grades 6-8
 * 2000-01 (Author, Title, Publisher): 25 books == 12 grades 3-5, 13 grades 6-8
 * 1999-00 (Title, Author): 16 books
 * 1952-53 (Title, Author): 18 books (inclg several apparent biographies)

Footer with unknown scope: "Each year the William Allen White Children's Book Awards Committee creates a Master List of titles, chosen from books published during the previous year." --P64 (talk) 18:37, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Broken Links
The majority of links to Emporia State University return 404 errors. Not sure if these would be better linked to archive.org versions, or replaced with equivalent pages from the The William Allen White Children's Book Award homepage.

--ThatQuailRobert (talk) 01:50, 10 February 2021 (UTC)