National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students

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]

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 award	1985[1]
Final award	2007[2]

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