Tuesday, August 18, 2009

2009 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards

Winners of the 2009 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards, which honor "authors from the Midwest Booksellers Association region and/or books about the region" and are voted on by MBA members, are:
Fiction: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Nonfiction: Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting by Michael Perry
Poetry: Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle by Freya Manfred
Children's Picture Book: Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Harry Bliss
Children's Literature: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean
Honor recipients:
Fiction: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Nonfiction: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the Worldd by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Poetry: Yellowrocket by Todd Boss
Children's Picture Book: Snow by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Lauren Stringer
Children's Literature: Savvy by Ingrid Law

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