The Kansas Reading Association

Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award

Kansas Reading Association
2005 Nominees

Homespun Sarah
by Verla Kay
Illustrated by Ted Rand
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Mercedes and the
Chocolate Pilot
by Margot Theis Raven
Illustrated by Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen
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Mighty Jackie: The
Strike-out Queen
by Marissa Moss
Illustrated by C.F. Payne
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Mr. George Baker
by Amy Hest
Illustrated by Jon J. Muth
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My Momma Likes to Say
by Denise Brennan-Nelson
Illustrated by Jane Monroe Donovan
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S is For Sunflower:
A Kansas Alphabet
by Devin & Corey Scillian
Illustrated by Doug Bowles
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Snow Music
by Lynne Rae Perkins
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Three Pebbles and a Song
by Eileen Spinelli
Illustrated by S.D. Schindler
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The Toughest Cowboy: or
How the Wild West
was Tamed
by John Frank
Illustrated by Zachary Pullen
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We All Went on a Safari:
A Counting Journey
through Tanzania
by Laurie Krebs
Illustrated by Julia Cairns
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Wild About Books
by Judy Sierra
Illustrated by Marc Brown
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Why Epossumondas Has
No Hair on His Tail
by Coleen Salley
Illustrated by Janet Stevens
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