National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students

Last updated
National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students
Awarded forHonoring books written and illustrated by young people
CountryUnited States
Presented by Landmark House
First awarded1985 [1]
Last awarded2007 [2]

The National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students is a literary competition held by Landmark House (formerly Landmark Editions) of Kansas City, Kansas. [2] It was launched by David Melton, one of the publisher's staff members. [3]

Contents

History

Landmark inaugurated the program in the mid-1980s as The National Written and Illustrated by... Awards Contest for Students, [3] and ran it until 1999. [1] A year later, future awards were canceled indefinitely, due to falling sales of their titles caused by "the financial crunch in many schools and libraries". [4] In 2006 and 2007, the company revived it as the David Melton Memorial Written and Illustrated by... Contest for Students, before rebranding it under the current name. [2]

Winners

YearWinner by category
Ages 6–9 [5] Ages 10–13 [5] Ages 14–19 [5] Gold Award
As the National Written and Illustrated by... Awards Contest for Students
1985
1986 [1] [1] [1]
1987 [1] [1] [1]
1988 [1] [1] [1]
1989 [1] [6] [1] [1]
1990 [1] [1] [1]
1991 [1] [1] [1]
1992 [1] [1] [1]
1993 [1] [1] [1]
1994 [1] [1] [1]
1995 [1] [7] [1] [1]
1996 [1] [1] [1]
1997 [1] [1] [1]
1998 [1] [1] [1] [8] [1]
As the David Melton Memorial Written and Illustrated by... Contest for Students
2006 [2] [2] [2]
2007 [2] [2] [2]
As the National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students
2008–No known awards given yet

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frederik Pohl</span> American science fiction writer and editor

Frederik George Pohl Jr. was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dav Pilkey</span> American cartoonist and author (born 1966)

David Murray "Dav" Pilkey Jr. is an American cartoonist, author, and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series, Captain Underpants, and its spin-off children's graphic novel series Dog Man, the latter published under the respective writer and illustrator pen names of George Beard and Harold Hutchins.

<i>Frindle</i> 1996 novel by Andrew Clements

Frindle is a middle-grade American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by the company Aladdin in 1996. It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association to the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was published twenty years earlier.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James E. Gunn</span> American science fiction author (1923–2020)

James Edwin Gunn was an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work as an editor of anthologies includes the six-volume Road to Science Fiction series. He won the Hugo Award for "Best Related Work" in 1983 and he won or was nominated for several other awards for his non-fiction works in the field of science fiction studies. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 24th Grand Master in 2007, and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015. His novel The Immortals was adapted into a 1970–71 TV series starring Christopher George.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jane Yolen</span> American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and childrens books (born 1939)

Jane Hyatt Yolen is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 350 books, of which the best known is The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella. Her other works include the Nebula Award−winning short story "Sister Emily's Lightship", the novelette "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, and the Commander Toad series. She has collaborated on works with all three of her children, most extensively with Adam Stemple.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bruce Coville</span> American novelist

Bruce Farrington Coville is an author of young adult fiction. Coville was first published in 1977 and has written over 100 books.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laurie Halse Anderson</span> American writer

Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature and 2023 she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frank Deford</span> American sportswriter (1938–2017)

Benjamin Franklin Deford III was an American sportswriter and novelist. From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's Morning Edition radio program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Faith Erin Hicks</span> Canadian cartoonist

Faith Erin Hicks is a Canadian cartoonist and animator living in Vancouver, British Columbia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boom! Studios</span> American comic book and graphic novel publisher

Boom! Studios is an American comic book and graphic novel publisher, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walter Dean Myers</span> American childrens book author

Walter Dean Myers was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers would encourage him in this habit as a way to express himself. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lee Goldberg</span> American writer

Lee Goldberg is an American author, screenwriter, publisher and producer known for his bestselling novels Lost Hills and True Fiction and his work on a wide variety of TV crime series, including Diagnosis: Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, Martial Law, She-Wolf of London, SeaQuest, 1-800-Missing, The Glades and Monk.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ursula Dubosarsky</span> Australian writer

Ursula Dubosarsky is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and comic voice of both clarity and ambiguity. She has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, more than any other writer in the Awards' 30-year history. She was appointed the Australian Children's Laureate for 2020–2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Meg Rosoff</span> American novelist

Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just in Case, won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)</span> New Zealand writer

Lloyd David Jones is a New Zealand author. His novel Mister Pip (2006) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cassandra Clare</span> American author

Judith Lewis, better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.

Corinne Demas is the award winning author of five novels, two collections of short stories, a collection of poetry, a memoir, two plays, and numerous books for children. She has published more than fifty short stories in a variety of magazines and literary journals. Her publications before 2000 are under the name Corinne Demas Bliss.

David J. Smith is an American teacher, children's writer and educational consultant.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kevin Colden</span> American comic book writer and artist

Kevin Colden is an American comic book writer and artist, as well as a webcomic artist. His work has been published in print by Zuda Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Alternative Comics, and Top Shelf Productions.

The PBS Kids Writers Contest is an annual art and literature competition for students grades kindergarten to 12 in the United States. The competition was relaunched under the name PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest in 2009 as a continuation from its predecessor called Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest which was started in 1995.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 "The National Written & Illustrated by... Awards Contest for Students® Winners". Landmark House. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Home Page". Landmark House. Archived from the original on December 18, 2008. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  3. 1 2 "The 2009 National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students: Rules and Guidelines". Landmark House. 2008. Archived from the original on January 30, 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  4. "Contest Notice". Landmark House. Archived from the original on October 10, 2004. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 Landmark House (2009). "Landmark Books: David Melton Memorial Written & Illustrated by... Contest". Homeschool Buyers Club Inc. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  6. "Resolution No. 900773". City of Kansas City, Missouri. December 6, 1990. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  7. "Feature photo (032597)". The Augusta Chronicle . March 25, 1997. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  8. Russell, Ruth (March 24, 2000). "Prize-winning teen author sticks with book ideas until the big one bites her". Hard News Cafe. Utah State University Communications Department. Retrieved March 5, 2012.