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WLA Book Awards Home | The Towner Award | 2026 Nominees The 2025 Towner Award Winner is...Previous Winners2024: The Gardener of Alcatraz by Emma Bland Smith 2023: Battle of the Butts by Jocelyn Rish 2022: The Pig War: How a Porcine Tragedy Taught England and America to Share by Emma Bland Smith 2021: Big Cats by Nic Bishop 2020: Avalanche Dog Heroes: Piper and Friends Learn to Search the Snow by Elizabeth Rusch 2019: This Book Isn't Safe by Colin Furze 2018: Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton 2017: Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by Greg Pizzoli 2016: Neighborhood Sharks by Katherine Roy 2015: Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss 2014: Snakes by Nic Bishop About Bill TownerThe Towner Award is named in honor of William "Bill" Towner who served as the Library Media Specialist at Kimball Elementary School in the Seattle School District until 1996. He was the WLMA Library Media Specialist of the Year in 1990.
Thanks Mr. Towner!
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