San Antonio-based poet, educator, and editor Naomi Shihab Nye has been named the 2024 Texas Writer Award recipient. The award honors a writer who has made outstanding contributions to Texas literature. Nye will be honored with a custom pair of handmade boots from renowned El Paso-based bootmaker, Rocketbuster, during a special Texas Book Festival Weekend ceremony. Learn more about Nye’s work and life in her interview with TBF Literary Director Hannah Gabel. Check out the interview on the Texas Book Festival’s website.
Included are all of Nye’s books in the NLS Collection:
Adult
| HUGGING THE JUKEBOX (DBC 26934) |
Juvenile
| A MAZE ME: POEMS FOR GIRLS (DB 95437) Grades 6-9 |
| CAST AWAY: POEMS FOR OUR TIME (DB 98613, BR 23778) Grades 6-9 |
| EVERYTHING COMES NEXT: COLLECTED & NEW POEMS (DB 101676) Grades 3-6 |
| HONEYBEE: POEMS & SHORT PROSE (DB 109497) Grades 4-7 |
| SPACE BETWEEN OUR FOOTSTEPS: POEMS AND PAINTINGS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST (DB 50238) Grades 6-9 |
| THIS SAME SKY: COLLECTION OF POEMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD (DB 48296) Grades 5-8 |
| TURTLE OF MICHIGAN: A NOVEL (DB 108881) Grades 3-6 |
| TURTLE OF OMAN (DB 109496) Grades 3-6 |
| VOICES IN THE AIR: POEMS FOR LISTENERS (DB 90690) Grades 6-9 |
| WHAT HAVE YOU LOST? POEMS (DB 50773) Grades 6-9 |