Awards & Honors for Works by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Awards and Honors
for works by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies and a Selector's Choice for 2001
Named to the 2001 2 x 2 Reading List of twenty books recommended for children ages two through second grade by the Texas Library Association
Finalist, children's/YA division, the Oklahoma Book Awards
Runner-up for the Storyteller Award from the Western Writers of America
Named a CCBC Choice for 2001
NEA Native American Book List
Featured in "Debuts That Deliver" (Book Magazine)
Featured title, Texas Book Festival
Featured title, GREAT BOOKS ABOUT THINGS KIDS LOVE by Kathleen Odean (Ballantine, 2001)
Editor's Choice, Library Talk
2002 Read Across Texas Bibliography (Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
Named among "Best Multicultural Children's Books for Early Childhood Educators" (Montessori Life)

Dishchii'Bikoh High School Reader Award. DHS is on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in eastern Arizona.
Smith named a Writer of the Year (Children's Prose) by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers in recognition of the novel
Finalist, children's/YA division, the Oklahoma Book Award
Featured title, GREAT BOOKS FOR GIRLS by Kathleen Odean (Ballantine, 2002)
Featured title, St. Petersburg Times "You Gotta Read This" Book Club
NEA Native American Book List
Featured title, Texas Book Festival
Featured title, Second National Book Festival.
Book of the Month, Red Tales, Aboriginal Voices Radio
Recommended title, THE CHILDREN’S LITERATURE LOVER’S BOOK by Joanna Sullivan (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
Recommended title, DOES ANYBODY ELSE LOOK LIKE ME? A PARENT’S GUIDE TO RAISING MULTIRACIAL CHILDREN by Donna Jackson Nakazawa (Da Capo Press, 2004)
Recommended title, SEVEN CHOICES: FINDING DAYLIGHT AFTER LOSS SHATTERS YOUR WORLD by Elizabeth Harper Neeld (Warner Books, 2003)