Bill+Wallace

= BILL WALLACE =

**Career**

 * Educator and author. Chickasaw, OK, public schools, teacher at fourth-grade center, 1971–74, kindergarten teacher, 1974, assistant principal at ninth-grade center, 1976, principal and physical education teacher at West Elementary School, 1977–88; writer and public speaker, 1988–.**

**Honors Awards**

 * Sequoya Children Book Award, and Texas Bluebonnet Award, both 1983, and Nebraska Golden Sower Award, 1985, all for //A Dog Called Kitty;// Nebraska Golden Sower Award, and South Carolina Children Award, both 1989, both for //Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge;// Utah Children Book Award, 1989, Sunshine State Young Reader's Award, 1990, and Wyoming Soaring Eagle Award, 1991, all for //Trapped in Death Cave;// Sequoya Children Book Award, and William Allen White Award, both 1991, both for //Beauty;// KC Three Award, 1991–92, and Texas Bluebonnet Award, and South Carolina Children Award, both 1992, all for //Snot Stew;// Pacific Northwest Territory Award, and Young Reader's Choice Award, both 1992, and Maryland Children Choice Award, 1994, all for //Danger in Quicksand Swamp;// Connecticut Nutmeg Children Choice Award, 1995, for //The Biggest Klutz in the Fifth Grade;// Arizona Children Choice Book Award, 1995, for //Totally Disgusting;// Sunshine State Children Award, 1996, for //Backwater Swamp;// Oklahoma Book Award finalist, 1996, and Utah Children Book Award and Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Books Award, both 1997, all for //Watchdog and the Coyotes;// Oklahoma Book Award finalist, 1998, for //Aloha Summer//, and 2005, for //No Dogs Allowed!;// Arrell M. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award, 2000, from Oklahoma Center for the Book; Maryland Children Book Award Intermediate Level, 2004, for //Goosed;//** West Elementary School, Chickasaw, OK, was renamed Bill Wallace Early Childhood Center.

**Sidelights**

 * Bill Wallace is the author of many award-winning novels for grade-school and middle-grade readers. His stories, some set in the historic Old West and others taking place in the present day, offer adventure and a dash of comedy for young audiences. In many cases, animals play key roles, and sometimes are even the main characters of Wallace books.**

PERIODICALS
//**Book list, February 1, 1981, Judith Goldberg, review of A Dog Called Kitty, pp. 755-756; June 1, 1987, p. 1526; February 1, 1989, Denise M. Wilma, review of Beauty, p. 943; April 1, 1991, Leone McDermott, review of Totally Disgusting, p. 1569; June 15, 1992, p. 1827; December 1, 1992, p. 671; April 15, 1993, Deborah Abbott, review of Never Say Quit, pp. 1516-1517; June 1, 1994, p. 1823; December 15, 1995, Ellen Mandel, review of Watchdog and the Coyotes, p. 706; October 1, 1997, p. 320; February 1, 1999, John Peters and Jack Helios, review of Eye of the Great Bear, p. 975; December, 15, 2000, Roger Leslie, review of Coyote Autumn, p. 822; May 15, 2003, Julie Cummings, review of Skinny-Dipping at Monster Lake, p. 1662; July, 2004, Lauren Peterson, review of No Dogs Allowed!, p. 1845; August, 2005, Selle Rosenberg, review of Pick of the Litter, p. 2032.**//

**//__BY:Daniel Richmond__//**

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