2022 Texas Bluebonnet Award

The 2022 Texas Bluebonnet Award went to The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, illustrated by Oge Mora. More than 63,000 Texas students in grades 3 through 6 voted for their favorite book from the 2021–2022 list of twenty titles. Because the Bluebonnet is a children's choice award, the result reflects the book that Texas readers themselves liked best that year rather than the verdict of an adult jury. The Texas Library Association announced the winner on February 21, 2022, and the author was honored at the association's annual conference that spring.