Last Tuesday night, I attended the Minnesota Book Awards event. Finding Family was a Finalist in the Children’s Literature category–so exciting! Here are some pics. It was such an honor to be grouped with these titles–you should read every one of them! Cori Doerrfeld’s Beneath took the prize–a gorgeous intergenerational
Oh my gosh. After a rough year last year, I’ve had such a lovely whirlwind of good news recently. I think I already shared that Finding Family is a Charlotte Zolotow Honor book(!) and and Eureka Gold Medal book(!). Zowie! Now I’ve learned the it’s also a CCBC Choices book
I just realized I never blogged about the Minnesota Book Awards! After BookSpeak! Poems About Books won the Children’s Literature category, it was a whirlwind of email and Facebook congratulations (and I’m still afraid I missed thanking some people). I just wanted to share a few pictures from this wonderful
atop your shoulders, taller than I hoped to be, I see other worlds –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved —————————————————- Cue sappy poem music. But BookSpeak! won the Minnesota Book Award (Children’s Literature category) last night, and I’m in a floaty/sappy mood today! And in that banquet hall full of
crumpled index cards abandoned confetti scraps after the awards –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved —————————————————- I’m jotting a couple of notes on an index card for the Minnesota Book Awards banquet. I don’t expect BookSpeak! to win, but when Stampede was a Finalist, I panicked when they started the
Exciting news over the weekend. I got home from a game night Saturday night to find a congratulations email from Joyce Sidman–for Stampede’s choice as a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards! The other three finalists in this category are Joyce herself, Alison McGhee, and Marion Dane Bauer. Wow. I’m
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