National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students

National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students
Awarded for	Honoring books written and illustrated by young people
Country	United States
Presented by	Landmark House
First awarded	1985[1]
Last awarded	2007[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]

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

Year	Winner 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				The Dragon of Ord David McAdoo [1] Walking Is Wild, Weird and Wacky Karen Kerber [1]
1986	Strong and Free Amy Hagstrom [1]	Me and My Veggies Isaac Whitlatch [1]	World War Won Dav Pilkey [1]
1987	Joshua Disobeys Dennis Vollmer [1]	The Half & Half Dog Lisa Gross [1]	Who Owns the Sun? Stacy Chbosky [1]
1988	Who Can Fix It? Leslie Ann MacKeen [1]	Elmer the Grump Elizabeth Haidle [1]	Taddy McFinley and the Great Grey Grimly Heidi Salter [1]
1989	Problems at the North Pole Lauren Peters [1][6]	The Legend of Sir Miguel Michael Cain [1]	We Are a Thunderstorm Amity Gaige [1]	Broken Arrow Boy Adam Moore [1] Get That Goat! Michael Aushenker [1]
1990	Oliver and the Oil Spill Aruna Chandrasekhar [1]	Life in the Ghetto Anika Thomas [1]	A Stone Promise Cara Reichel [1]	Patulous, the Prairie Rattlesnake Jonathan Kahn [1] Too Much Trick or Treat Jayna Miller [1]
1991	Punt, Pass & Point! Alise Leggat [1]	Nina's Magic Lisa Butenhoff [1]	Jambi and the Lions Jennifer Brady [1]
1992	Alien Invasions Benjamin Kendall [1]	Fogbound Steven Shepard [1]	Changes Travis Williams [1]	Abracadabra Amy Jones [1] A Special Day Dubravka Kolanovic [1]
1993	Thomas Raccoon's Fantastic Airshow Shintaro Maeda [1]	The Sunflower Miles MacGregor [1]	The Shadow Shop Kristin Pedersen [1]
1994	Bright Eyes and the Buffalo Hunt Laura Hughes [1]	Critter Crackers: The ABC Book of Limericks Kathryn Barron [1]	Glory Trail Taramesha Maniatty [1]
1995	Circus Adventures Lindsey Wolter [1][7]	The Timekeeper Anna Riphahn [1]	Darius, the Lonely Gargoyle Micha Estlack [1]
1996	Mouse Surprise Alexandra Whitney [1]	Don't Bug Me! Gillian McHale [1]	The Incredible Jelly Bean Day Taylor Maw [1]
1997	Summer Discovery Drew Carson [1]	The Mists of Eden: Nature's Last Paradise Erica Sherman [1]	The Pigs Went Marching Out! Justin Rigamonti [1]
1998	The Adventures of Bob and Red David Barron [1]	This One's for You! Zach Dillon [1]	The Moas Katie Beck [1][8]	Fluffy Danielle Johnson [1]
As the David Melton Memorial Written and Illustrated by... Contest for Students
2006	Slime for a Dragon Daniel Carr [2]	The Legend of How Kansas Got Chipped Corina White [2]	Mrs. McFig and the Very Big Wig David Miles [2]	Ickypoo Thomas Yu [2] Eva's Story Phoebe Unterman [2] Spirit of the Amazon Thornton Blease [2]
2007	Trail to Victory Mountain Sora Nithikasem [2]	Berrie the Bear Gina S. DeCagna [2]	Just a Bit of String N/A [2]	The Ordinary Indians Sharon Moore [2] Coyotes Gabriella Macioci [2]
As the National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students
2008–	No known awards given yet

See also

• Lune Spark Young Writers' Short Story Contest
• PBS Kids Writers Contest
• National Novel Writing Month
• Three-Day Novel Contest

References

1. "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. "Home Page". Landmark House. Archived from the original on December 18, 2008. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
3. "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. 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.