The winners and honor books of the 2007 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards, nominated and voted on by members of the Midwest Booksellers Association and honoring authors from or books set in the region, are:
Fiction Winner: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
Fiction Honor Book: Copper River by William Kent Krueger (Pocket)
Nonfiction Winner: Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction Honor Book: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
(Broadway Books)
Poetry Winner: The Blizzard Voices: Poems by Ted Kooser (University of Nebraska Press)
Poetry Honor Book: To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present edited by Connie Wanek, Joyce Sutphen and Thom Tammaro (New Rivers Press)
Children's Picture Book Winner: A Good Day by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
Children's Picture Book Honor Books: A Woodland Counting Book by Claudia McGehee (University of Iowa Press) and Winter Is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer (Harcourt)
Children's Literature Winner: Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Houghton Mifflin)
Children's Literature Honor Book: In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth (Holt)
Awards will be presented during the MBA annual trade show October 5 in Minneapolis, Minn. Michael Perry (via a special video presentation), Kevin Henkes and Catherine Gilbert Murdock will speak at the event. Honor Book recipients William Kent Krueger, Lauren Stringer and Loretta Ellsworth will attend. Other authors may be on hand, too.
Fiction Winner: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
Fiction Honor Book: Copper River by William Kent Krueger (Pocket)
Nonfiction Winner: Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction Honor Book: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
(Broadway Books)
Poetry Winner: The Blizzard Voices: Poems by Ted Kooser (University of Nebraska Press)
Poetry Honor Book: To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present edited by Connie Wanek, Joyce Sutphen and Thom Tammaro (New Rivers Press)
Children's Picture Book Winner: A Good Day by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
Children's Picture Book Honor Books: A Woodland Counting Book by Claudia McGehee (University of Iowa Press) and Winter Is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer (Harcourt)
Children's Literature Winner: Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Houghton Mifflin)
Children's Literature Honor Book: In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth (Holt)
Awards will be presented during the MBA annual trade show October 5 in Minneapolis, Minn. Michael Perry (via a special video presentation), Kevin Henkes and Catherine Gilbert Murdock will speak at the event. Honor Book recipients William Kent Krueger, Lauren Stringer and Loretta Ellsworth will attend. Other authors may be on hand, too.