Reading the Region 2009-2010: Award Books, Award Programs, and the Latest Winning Titles From Around the PNLA Region Researched and Compiled July 2010 by Jan Zauha; Book Talks by… Alaska: Helen Hill, Alaska PNLA Representative, Director, Homer Public Library hhill@ci.homer.ak.us Alberta: Christine Sheppard, Alberta PNLA Representative, Library Association of Alberta christine.sheppard@shaw.ca British Columbia: Adrienne Wass, British Columbia PNLA Representative, Manager, Community Development, Greater Victoria Public Library awass@gvpl.ca Idaho: Liesl Seborg, Idaho PNLA Representative, Librarian-Branch Lead, Ada Community Library lseborg@adalib.org Montana: Jan Zauha, Past PNLA President, Reference Librarian & Professor, Montana State University, jzauha@montana.edu; Mary Lou Mires, Montana PNLA Representative, Reference Librarian, D'Arcy McNickle Library, Salish Kootenai College mary_mires@skc.edu Washington: Susan Anderson, Washington PNLA Representative, Eastern Washington University Libraries sanderson@ewu.edu; Barbra Meisenheimer, PNLA Young Reader’s Choice Award Chair, Vancouver Mall Community Library bmeisenheimer@fvrl.org REGIONAL AWARDS Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) Young Readers Choice Award 2010 Winners (www.pnla.org/yrca/) – Barbra Meisenheimer Junior Division (4th-6th Grades): Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) Intermediate Division (7th-9th Grades): Schooled by Gordon Korman (Hyperion) Senior Division (10th – 12th grades): City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (McElderry) Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award 2010 Winners (www.pnba.org/Awards2010.htm) – Jan Zauha The Big Burn by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (Tor Books) The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha (Broadway Books) The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet (Sasquatch Books) All In a Day by Cynthia Rylant, illustrations by Nikki McClure (Abrams Books for Young Readers) American Indian Youth Literature (AILA) Award 2010 Winners (www.ailanet.org) – Mary Lou Mires Best Picture Book: A Coyote Solstice Tale by Thomas King, illustrations by Gary Clement (Groundwood Books) Best Middle School Book: Meet Christopher: An Osage Indian Boy from Oklahoma by Genevieve Simermeyer, photographs by Katherine Fogden (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution in association with Council Oak Books) Best Young Adult Book: Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me: A Novel by Lurline Wailana McGregor (Kamehameha Publishing) ALASKA—Helen Hill Alaskana Award – Adult Fiction or Non-Fiction (www.akla.org/newspoke/pdf/apr-jun-10.pdf) 2009 Winner: Chasing the Dark: Perspectives on Place, History and Alaska Native Land Claims edited by Kenneth Pratt (published by US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaska Region, ANSCA Office, Anchorage) Forget Me Not Award – Children’s Literature 2009 Winner: Big Alaska: Journey Across America’s Most Amazing State by Debbie S Miller, illustrations by John Van Zyle (Walker Books for Young Readers) ALBERTA—Christine Sheppard Alberta Readers’ Choice Award (www.albertareaderschoice.ca/portal.cfm) 2010 Winner: Fishing for Bacon by Michael Davie (NeWest Press) Book Publishers’ Association of Alberta 2010 Awards (www.bookpublishers.ab.ca) Children’s & Young Adult Book Award: Theo in the Spotlight by Patti McIntosh, illustrations by Tara Langlois (Maggie & Pierrot) Scholarly & Academic Book Award: People of the Lakes by Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and Shirleen Smith (The University of Alberta Press) Trade Fiction Book Award: Seal Intestine Raincoat by Rosie Chard (NeWest Press) Trade Non-Fiction Award: Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway by Roger G Boulet (Glenbow Museum) Louis Hole Award for Editorial Excellence: People of the Lakes by Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and Shirleen Smith, production editor Mary Lou Roy, copy editor Meaghan Craven (The University of Alberta Press) Poetry Book Award: subUrban Legends by Joan Crate (Freehand Books) Alberta Book Design Awards: o Book Cover: Buying Cigarettes for the Dog by Stuart Ross, cover design by Fidel Pena (Freehand Books) o Book Design: The Incomparable Honeybee by Reese Halter, book design by Chyla Cardinal (Rocky Mountain Books) o Book Illustration: Theo in the Spotlight by Patti McIntosh, illustrations by Tara Langlois (Maggie & Pierrot) Rocky Mountain Book Awards (grades 4-7) (rmba.lethsd.ab.ca) 2010 Winner: Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen (Tundra Books) Writer’s Guild of Alberta 2010 Winners (www.writersguild.ab.ca) Georges Bugnet Award for Novel: Fishing for Bacon by Michael Davie (NeWest Press) Stephan G Stephansson Award for Poetry: Frenzy by Catherine Owen (Anvil Press) Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction: Beyond Belfast: A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet by Will Ferguson (Penguin Group Canada) Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama: The Drowning Girls, from The Drowning Girls/Comrades by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson and Daniela Vlaskalic (Playwrights Canada Press) R Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature: The Broken Thread by Linda Smith (Coteau Books) BRITISH COLUMBIA – Adrienne Wass Red Cedar Book Award 2009/2010 Winners (grades 4-7) (www.redcedaraward.ca) Information Book Award: Sweet: The Delicious Story of Candy by Ann Love and Jane Drake, illustrations by Claudia Davila (Tundra Books) Fiction: Dear Jo: The Story of Losing Leah…and Searching for Hope by Christina Kilbourne (Lobster Press) BC Book Prizes 2010 Winners (www.bcbookprizes.ca) Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: o Winner: Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison by Cathleen With (Penguin Group Canada) o Finalist: Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis (Harper Perennial) Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize: Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia by Andrew Scott (Harbour Publishing) Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize: Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir by Lorna Crozier (Greystone Books) Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award: Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett (Greystone Books) Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: is a door by Fred Wah (Talonbooks) Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize: Maggie Can’t Wait by Frieda Wishinsky, illustrations by Dean Griffiths (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) Sheila Egoff Children's Prize: The Gryphon Project by Carrie Mac (Penguin Group Canada) Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize (victoriabookprizes.ca) 2009 Winner: Graveyard of the Sea by Penny Draper (Published by Coteau Books) City of Victoria Butler Book Prize (victoriabookprizes.ca) 2009 Winner: Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Lane (Published by McClelland & Stewart) Stellar Awards 2010 (ages 13-19) (www.stellaraward.ca) Winner: Choices by Deborah Lynn Jacobs (Roaring Brook) Chocolate Lily Awards 2010 Winners (www.chocolatelilyawards.com) Best Picture Book: Penguin and the Cupcake by Ashley Spires (Simply Read Books) Best Chapter Book/Novel: Meeting Miss 405 by Lois Peterson (Orca Book Publishers) IDAHO—Liesl Seborg Idaho Library Association Book Award (http://www.idaholibraries.org/node/113) 2008 Winner (most recent): James Castle: A Retrospective edited by Ann Percy (Yale University Press) 2008 Honorable Mentions: o The Enders Hotel: A Memoir by Brandon R Schrand (Univ of Nebraska Press) o Owyhee Canyonlands by Mark Lisk (Caxton Press) MONTANA – Jan Zauha Montana Book Award 2009 Winners (www.montanabookaward.org) Winner: House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Ballantine Books) Honor books: o The 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster (Riverbend Publishing) o The Big Burn by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) o The Selected Works of T.S Spivet by Reif Larsen (Penguin) o Stick Horses and Other Stories of Ranch Life by Wallace MacRae (Gibbs Smith) Treasure State Award (K-12 picture book award) (http://www.montanareads.org/tsa.html) 2010 Winner: The Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larsen and Mary Nethery, illustrations by Jean Cassells (Walker & Company) High Plains Book Award (ci.billings.mt.us/index.aspx?nid=1180) 2009 Best Nonfiction Book Award Winner: In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L Blumenschein by Peter H Hassrick, Elizabeth J Cunningham, and Sarah E Boehme (University of Oklahoma Press) 2009 Best Fiction Book Award Winner: So Brave Young and Handsome by Leif Enger (Atlantic Monthly Press) 2009 Best First Book Award Winner: Horses that Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith by Margot Kahn (University of Oklahoma Press) 2009 Zonta Award for Best Woman Writer: Roadmap to Holland: How I Found My Way Through My Son’s First Two Years with Down Syndrome by Jennifer Graf Groneberg (New American Library) 2009 Best Poetry Book: Made Flesh by Craig Arnold (Copper Canyon Press) WASHINGTON – Susan Anderson & Barbra Meisenheimer Children’s Choice Picture Book Award (www.wlma.org/wccpba) Barbra Meisenheimer 2010 Winner: The Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larsen and Mary Nethery, illustrations by Jean Cassells (Walker & Company) Evergreen Young Adult Award (www.kcls.org/evergreen/) Barbra Meisenheimer 2010 Winner: Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing) Sasquatch Reading Award (www.wlma.org/sasquatch) Barbra Meisenheimer 2010 Winner: Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Sandpiper) Washington State Book Awards 2009 Winners (www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=about_leaders_washingtoncenter) Susan Anderson Fiction: All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison (Soft Skull Press) Poetry: A Map of the Night by David Wagoner (University of Illinois Press) History/Biography: Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark (Doubleday) General Nonfiction: S’abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Arts and Artists by Barbara Brotherton (Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press) Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award 2009 Winners (from the Washington State Book Awards): What to About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! by Barbara Kerley, illustrations by Edwin Fotheringham (Scholastic) Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster in the Antarctic, 1910-1913 by Richard Farr (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)