Some book award information:
2009 Colorado Book Award Finalists: (from the Colorado Center for the Book)
Biography
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman
The Principled Politician: The Ralph Carr Story by Adam Schrager
Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West by Jon Thiem with Deborah Dimon
Children’s Literature
M is for Mischief: An A to Z of Naughty Children by Linda Ashman, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
Max Goes to Jupiter: A Science Adventure with Max the Dog by Jeffrey Bennett, Nick Schneider, Erica Ellingson, illustrated by Michael Carroll
There Was a Man Who Loved a Rat and Other Vile Little Poems by Gerda Rovetch, illustrated by Lissa Rovetch
Creative Nonfiction
Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West by Daryl Farmer
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine
Travels in Place: A Journey into Memory Loss by Christiane W. Griffin-Wehr
Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Fiction/Literary
Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice
Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions by Bruce Ducker
The Song of Jonah by Gene Guerin
People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Fiction - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Drama - Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Biography - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Poetry - The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin
General Nonfiction - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
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The Colorado Author's League is also about to announce some award winners. Susan, JoAnne, and I are participating as judges,and there may be some other staff members doing it too. I'm not sure, but we can let you know the results for this group too
Oh please, Cheryl, do give us the results!! Thanks Andrew for contributing all of the other award winners! You rock!
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