February 08, 2005
TOGO by Robert J. Blake wins Texas Bluebonnet Award
Togo, Robert J. Blake's story of a Siberian Husky who leads a sled dog team bringing the diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska in 1925 was announced the winner of the 2005 Texas Bluebonnet Award today.
The Bluebonnet Award is a project of the Texas Library Association and is co-sponsored by the Children's Roundtable and the Texas Association of School Librarians, both of the Texas Library Association from suggestions from librarians, teachers, parents, students, and others. Students in grades 3-6 vote in January for the winner.
Posted by Grace at February 8, 2005 04:17 PM
