2009 Midwest Bookseller Association Awards Announced
Monday, August 17th, 2009The Midwest Bookseller Association is made up of 240 or so independent, local booksellers. Annually they vote for their favorites in several categories. Today they’ve announced their award winners. Always, these are excellent picks.
At the awards dinner, to be held late this September, there are usually autographed copies available to the member booksellers. If you want to get your hands on one of these, go to your local bookseller, not Barnes and Noble, Borders, or other national chains, and find out if they’re members of the Midwest Booksellers Association and if they are going to attend the fall trade show in St. Paul, Minnesota this year. Ask, beg, or whine if they can get an autographed copy for you-you’ll need to pay, of course. They may even take your own copy to get it signed. Local booksellers are the best. In Madison, I like Booked For Murder.
These are their choices for this year:
2009 AWARD WINNERS
Fiction
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski
(Ecco/HarperCollins)
Nonfiction
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting
Michael Perry
(HarperCollins)
Poetry
Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle
Freya Manfred
(Red Dragonfly Press)
Children’s Picture Book
Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken
Kate DiCamillo, Illustrated by Harry Bliss
(Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
Children’s Literature
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Dave McKean
(HarperCollins Children’s Books)
2009 HONOR BOOKS
Fiction
A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick
(Algonquin Books/Workman Publishing)
Nonfiction
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
(Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group USA)
Poetry
Yellowrocket
Todd Boss
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Children’s Picture Book
Snow
Cynthia Rylant, Illustrated by Lauren Stringer
(Harcourt Children’s Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Children’s Literature
Savvy
Ingrid Law
(Dial Books for Young Readers/Walden Media/
Penguin Group (USA)
