2007 Award Winners

2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards

The independent bookseller members of the Midwest Booksellers Association have chosen their favorite books and authors from our region!

We are proud to announce the winners and honor books for the 2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards.

2007 Winners

Fiction
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
(Algonquin Books/Workman Publishing)		 Nonfiction
Truck: A Love Story
Michael Perry
(HarperCollins Publishers)
Poetry
The Blizzard Voices: Poems
Ted Kooser
(University of Nebraska Press)		 Children’s Picture Book
A Good Day
Kevin Henkes
(Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Publishers)
Children’s Literature
Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
(Houghton Mifflin Company)		  

2007 Honorable Mention

Fiction
Copper River
William Kent Krueger
(Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster)		 Nonfiction
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Bill Bryson
(Broadway Books/Random House)
Poetry
To Sing Along the Way:
Minnesota Women Poets from
Pre-Territorial Days to the Present
Connie Wanek, Joyce Sutphen,
Thom Tammaro, Editors
(New Rivers Press)		 Children’s Picture Book
A Woodland Counting Book
Claudia McGehee
(University of Iowa Press)
Children’s Picture Book
Winter is the Warmest Season
Lauren Stringer
(Harcourt)		 Children’s Literature
In Search of Mockingbird
Loretta Ellsworth
(Henry Holt and Company)
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