2008 Award Winners

2008 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards

The Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards honor authors from the Midwest Booksellers Association (MBA) region and/or books about the region, which includes the states of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

These Award and Honor Book winners have been voted the top favorite books in each of the five award categories. They were both nominated and chosen entirely by the knowledgeable booksellers of the 200+ locally owned and operated independent bookstore members of the Midwest Booksellers Association. Six of the winning books are also MIDWEST CONNECTIONS PICKS, titles promoted by MBA and its member bookstores through the association’s Midwest regional marketing program.

We are proud to announce the Award and Honor Book winners of our 2008 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Awards!

2008 Award Winners

* indicates that the book is also a Midwest Connections Pick.

Fiction Loving Frank: A Novel Nancy Horan (Ballantine Books/Random House)	Nonfiction Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression * Mildred Armstrong Kalish (Bantam Books/Random House)
Poetry Valentines: Poems Ted Kooser Illustrated by Robert Hanna (University of Nebraska Press)	Children’s Picture Book Agate: What Good Is a Moose? Joy Morgan Dey and Nikki Johnson (Lake Superior Port Cities)
Children’s Literature Little Klein * Anne Ylvisaker (Candlewick Press)

2008 Honor Book Winners

* indicates that the book is also a Midwest Connections Pick.

Fiction (Tie) So Brave, Young, and Handsome * Leif Enger (Atlantic Monthly Press / Grove/Atlantic, Inc.)	Fiction (Tie) Whistling in the Dark * Lesley Kagen (NAL/Penguin Group (USA), Inc.)
Nonfiction The Florist’s Daughter: A Memoir * Patricia Hampl (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)	Poetry Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems Deborah Keenan (Milkweed Editions)
Children’s Picture Book Great Joy Kate DiCamillo Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (Candlewick Press)	Children’s Literature The Gollywhopper Games * Jody Feldman Illustrated by Victoria Jamieson (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)