Awards
The 2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards
The Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards winners are chosen by our MBA member independent booksellers from among titles which also are nominated by our booksellers. These awards reflect the interest and support of our independent bookseller members for the winning titles.
The 2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Winners and Honor Books will be announced officially to the public on August 17, 2009. Press releases are available here:
2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards PRESS RELEASE (PDF)
2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards BOOK INDUSTRY TRADE PRESS RELEASE (PDF)
MBA BOOKSELLERS — PLEASE SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE FOR YOUR PUBLICITY AND PROMO/DISPLAY MATERIALS!
Fiction
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski
Ecco/HarperCollins
(9780061768064, HC, $25.95)
(9780061374234, PPR, $16.99 – available 09/08 )
Nonfiction
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting *
Michael Perry
HarperCollins
(9780061240430, HC, $25.99)
* this book is also a Midwest Connections Pick
Poetry
Swimming With A Hundred Year Old
Snapping Turtle
Freya Manfred
Red Dragonfly Press
(9781890193768, PPR, $15.00)
Children’s Picture Book
Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken
Kate DiCamillo, Illustrated by Harry Bliss
Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins
(9780060755546, HC, $17.99)
Children’s Literature
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Dave McKean
HarperCollins Children’s Books
(9780060530921, HC, $17.99)
2009 HONOR BOOKS
Fiction
A Reliable Wife *
Robert Goolrick
Algonquin Books/Workman Publishing
(9781565125964, HC, $23.95)
* this book is also a Midwest Connections Pick
Nonfiction
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat
Who Touched the World *
Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group USA
(9780446407410, HC, $19.99)
* this book is also a Midwest Connections Pick
Poetry
Yellowrocket
Todd Boss
W.W. Norton & Company
(9781890193768, HC, $23.95)
Children’s Picture Book
Snow *
Cynthia Rylant, Illustrated by Lauren Stringer
Harcourt Children’s Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(9780152053031, HC, $17.00)
* this book is also a Midwest Connections Pick
Children’s Literature
Savvy *
Ingrid Law
Dial Books for Young Readers/Walden Media/
Penguin Group (USA)
(9780803733060, HC, $16.99)
* this book is also a Midwest Connections Pick
Many of the winning authors will take part in our annual Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards Reception on Friday evening, September 25, in St. Paul, MN. This event is open only to members of Midwest Booksellers Association and attendees at the MBA Trade Show.
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BOOKSELLER INFORMATION, PRESS RELEASES, AND PROMOTIONAL/DISPLAY MATERIALS
Booksellers –
Please download these files and print out what you need.
You can start using these materials NOW. Thanks!
2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards PRESS RELEASE (PDF)
2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards BOOKSTORE PRESS RELEASE (Word document)
– use this Word document to create your own store’s press release to announce our awards
2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards TITLE LIST (Excel file)
High resolution PDF files of promo materials — ready to print!
2009 Awards SIGN 8.5×11 (PDF) — full color sign – small
2009 Awards SIGN 17×22 (PDF) — full color sign – large
– print out on a color printer or take to your local print shop
2009 Awards WINNERS SHELF-TALKERS (PDF) — full color shelf-talkers, one for each Award book
– print out on a color printer or take to your local print shop
2009 Awards HONOR BOOKS SHELF-TALKERS (PDF) – full color shelf-talkers, one for each Award book
– print out on a color printer or take to your local print shop
2009 Awards BOOKMARK (PDF) — two color bookmark
– print out on a color printer or take to your local print shop
2009 Awards ORDER FORM for free stickers, bookmarks (PDF)
Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards — WINNER logo/sticker (JPG)
Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards — HONOR BOOK logo/sticker (JPG)
BOOK & AUTHOR PHOTOS — all JPGs — use these photos on your store’s website , in e-mails and newsletters!
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – Fiction Winner — trade paperback (available 09/08 )
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – Fiction Winner — hardcover
David Wroblewski
Coop – Nonfiction Winner
Michael Perry
Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle – Poetry Winner
Freya Manfred
Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken - Children’s Picture Book Winner
Kate DiCamillo
The Graveyard Book – Children’s Literature Winner
Neil Gaiman
A Reliable Wife - Fiction Honor Book
Robert Goolrick
Dewey – Nonfiction Honor Book
Vicki Myron
Yellowrocket – Poetry Honor Book
Todd Boss
Snow – Children’s Picture Book Honor Book
Cynthia Rylant
Lauren Stringer
Savvy – Children’s Literature Honor Book
Ingrid Law
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Nominating and Voting Procedures for MBA Member Bookstores
All nominated books must have subject matter which relates to our Midwest region. OR The author must live in one of our MBA member states. These states include Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Books which are eligible for our 2009 awards must have been published in either hardcover or paperback between May 1, 2008, and April 30, 2009.Five Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards are given: Adult Fiction, Adult Non-Fiction, Poetry, Children’s Picture Book, and Children’s Literature (including both fiction and non-fiction).
March 1 – April 30, 2009: Nominations
Booksellers can nominate 1-5 titles in each of the 5 categories: Adult Fiction, Adult Non-Fiction, Poetry, Children’s Picture Book, and Children’s Literature (including both fiction and non-fiction). All booksellers who work in a MBA member store can nominate titles, so multiple nominations per store are fine. Customers are welcome to suggest their favorite titles to their booksellers, too, but all nominations will be submitted by booksellers.
Booksellers will E-mail, fax or mail nominations to the MBA office during this time. You can do this on your own, if you wish. In addition, on March 1 MBA will send out a reminder with a nomination form which you are welcome to use. Booksellers are asked to include the title, author, publisher, ISBN, and the applicable award category when they nominate titles.
- 2009 MBA Book Awards Nomination Form (PDF)
- MBA is asking booksellers to do their best to be certain that a nominated book was published in either hardcover or paperback between May 1, 2008, and April 30, 2009.
- A nominated book either must have Midwest subject matter, or the author must live in one of our states (see above).
- MBA and our booksellers are giving MIDWEST awards, so we intend to choose books that have a broad enough Midwest regional interest to appeal to and sell at our stores across our Midwest territory. A title that is so very specific to any one locale that it would be unlikely to sell around the rest of the region is not the best title to nominate, even if it’s a great title for the store that considers nominating it.
May 5 – May 31, 2009: Voting for the Award Winners from the Nominated Titles
- 2009 MBA Book Awards Official Ballot (PDF)
- MBA will compile a list of all titles nominated by booksellers as we receive them during March and April. In early May, we will send out a ballot with the list of nominees to MBA member stores and ask all member booksellers to vote on their top titles — up to 5 titles per category.
- All booksellers who work in MBA member stores can vote. Thus, multiple votes per store are fine. However, each person must vote only one time. [Midwest booksellers are good at abiding by honor codes!] Booksellers will be able to E-mail, fax or mail their ballots to the MBA office.
- Booksellers can vote for just the categories they are familiar with, if desired. [Children's booksellers, for example, may not know much about the adult titles nominated.] MBA booksellers vote during this time. Deadline May 31 — all votes must be in the MBA office by this date.
- MBA will count the votes and determine which titles and authors our booksellers have chosen as the winners and the honorable mention recipients in each category! The top title in each category will be the winner. The second place title in each category will be the honorable mention recipient.
August 17, 2009: Awards Winners Announced
The official date for publicly announcing the winners of our MBA Midwest Book Awards will be August 17. Stores are notified by the end of July, before the public announcement, and promotional materials are available in plenty of time for stores to stock, display and promote our winners.
As soon as the winners are determined, MBA will work immediately with the publishers of the winning and honorable mention books to make sure that these titles are included in the 2009 MBA Catalog and that the authors will be able to participate in the 2009 MBA Trade Show in September.
