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2007 R. Ross Annett A ward for Children's Literature Mwakwa--Talks to the Loon: A Cree Story for Children by Dale Auger (Heritage House) 2006/2007 Stellar Book Award The Beckoners by [...]

I give away books. I have to. Otherwise, I couldn't fit into my office. Over two thousand books a year invade my personal working space. Of those, we reviewed 70 [...]

As the 'Spirit of Truth' guides us 'into all the truth,' he often uses books as his instrument of illumination. From Augustine's Confessions to Luther's Theses to Calvin's Institutes, books [...]

MANY HAPPY RETURNS FEBRUARY PAPERBACKS COLLECTED STORIES OF WALLACE STEGNER Wallace Stegner. Penguin, $10.95 These 31 classic stories record much of the cultural climate of 20th-century America, its West in [...]

Sunburst A ward Young Adult Category Shortlist Choices by Deborah Lynn Jacobs (Roaring Brook Press) Retribution by Carrie Mac (Puffin Canada) Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins Canada) Anthem of a [...]

Editor's Choice NONFICTION The Life of Graham Greene: Vol. 1, 1904-1939 Norman Sherry (Viking). Biography of this scale and quality is rare, a portrait that goes to the heart of [...]

2007 Rocky Mountain Book Award Winner Crazy Man by Pamela Porter Other Nominees Sports Hall of Weird by Kevin Sylvester The Dragon Prince by Vicki Blum Forever: The Annual Hockey [...]

Hackmatack Award Winners/Gagnants 2006 English Fiction/Fiction Anglaise No Small Thing by Natale Ghent HarperCollins English Non-Fiction/Documentation Anglaise Adventures in the Ice Age by Linda Bailey. Kids Can Press French/Francaise La [...]

The Bookbinders' Guild 7th Annual New York Book Show, held November 11 in New York City defied the notion that well-made books are a thing of the past. This year's [...]

Naeem Murr's The Perfect Man (Heinemann) has taken the prize for Best Book in European and South-East Asian heats of the 2007 Commonwealth Best BookAward, while Hisham Matar's Bookershortlisted debut [...]

Byline: JANE R. PORTER For countless writers, a novel takes a lifetime to complete. Jan M. Underwood, chairwoman of the Spanish department at Portland Community College's Cascade Campus, cranked out [...]

The shortlist has been announced for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary. The titles are Susie Boyt's The Last Hope of Girls (Headline [...]

2001 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. Marcia Bartusiak for Einstein's Unfinished Symphony. Presented by the American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md. Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Awards. [...]

HarperCollins, Orion and Penguin dominate the shortlists for this years Macallan Daggers, the high-profile crime book awards organised by the Crime Writers Association. Three of the six authors on the [...]

Sandra Lousada's Baby Faces (£2.99, 0333 903986), from Macmillan's new Baby Campbell imprint, has won the 2001 Sainsbury's Baby Book Award. The £2,000 prize was presented during events marking Children's [...]

The British Academy has launched a new prize for academic books that are 'both scholarly and accessible'. The £2,500 British Academy Book Prize will be given to the best book [...]

2001 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. Fiction and poetry: Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson. Nonfiction: The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash, illustrated by Dusan Petricic. Picture Book: Cold [...]

It was with great interest that I read Marc Aronson's article, 'Slippery Slopes and Proliferating Prizes,' in the May/June 2001 issue of this publication. I appreciate the author's insight into [...]

500-1: The Miracle of Headingley '81. ENGLAND'S cricket team had won four Test match series in a row until drawing the one with Pakistan last month. But this unusual run [...]

The Alliance for Nonprofit Management (www.allianceonline.org), formerly the Nonprofit Management Association (NMA), is currently seeking nominations for the most inspirational and useful new book published that has made a substantial [...]

Listen & Live Audio's title Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural was awarded the INDIE award for best independent spoken-word audio by the Association for Independent Music [...]

The Sibert committee looks at 14 qualities of a truly distinguished information book. The Information Age has a new high-profile award for information books. That s a big plus. After [...]

ASF Translation Prize, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 58 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016. 212-879-9779. Fax: 212-249-3444. E-mail: agyongy@ amscan.org. Web site: www.amscan.org. Deadline: June 1. Entry fee: None. Prizes: $2,000, [...]

Each winter brings a different sort of blizzard to Christianity Today's offices in the western suburbs of Chicago as publishers deluge us with nominations for our Annual Book Awards. We [...]

Tony Parsons's Man and Boy, just published here by Source books as one of the Illinois house's first ventures into fiction and published by HarperCollins in the U.K., was named [...]

The 2000 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards awarded a total of £16,000 to eight books on the art, culture, historical, technological and scientific aspects of photography. With a record entry of [...]

The 2000 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year Award was presented in November to Felicia M. Sherbert for her book, The Unofficial Guide to Selecting Wine. The books are [...]

RICHARD PECK, author ofA Year Down Yonder, and David Small, illustrator of So You Want to Be President?, are the winners of the 2001 John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals. [...]

IF YOU HAPPENED TO ATTEND NOVEMBER'S 51ST National Book Awards ceremony, in New York City, you couldn't help but notice a certain wild and crazy guy. For the second consecutive [...]

SUSAN SONTAG was the Fiction winner, for In America, and Nathaniel Philbrick took the Nonfiction prize for In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex at [...]

Celebrating theshort story form and Doubleday's 80-year-old O.Henry prize series, a stellar group of writers came to read from past volumes at New York City's 92nd St. Y. Participants included [...]

The Gaylactic network, the premiere organization for GLBT science fiction fans and writers, recently announced the winners of the 2000 Gaylactic Network Spectrum Awards. These awards were created to honor [...]

Book Award Bonanza This year's Americas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature, sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, went to Juan Felipe Herrera for his 1999 [...]

Photography collection exposes hidden facets of 160 years of African-American life For Deborah Willis, it's been a long journey from her days as a Photography student in 1972, when she [...]

Being first at something is interesting and exciting, but it also brings with it an inordinate sense of responsibility. Those of us chosen to select the first Michael L. Printz [...]

'Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness', the second and final part of David Cairns's magisterial biography of the French composer, has won Britain's richest non-fiction award, the Samuel Johnson prize. It will [...]

Author Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak (Farrar, 1999) was nominated for the National Book Award last year. It did not win, but it did benefit a Philadelphia school library sorely [...]

* Newbery and Caldecott Medal Winners Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte), has won the 2000 John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature [...]