Public Information and Communication
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 4, 2007
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Mary Jo Ryan
402-471-3434
800-307-2665
Books Honored by Nebraska Center for the Book
The 2007 Nebraska Book Awards program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the
Book (NCB), recognizes and honors books that are written by Nebraska authors, published by Nebraska publishers, set in Nebraska, or concerning Nebraska. This
year's winners are:
Children/Young Adult:
Tomorrow the River, Dianne E. Gray,
Houghton Mifflin Company
Cover/Design/Illustration:
Things We Don't Know We Don't Know, Matt Mason,
The Backwaters Press
Fiction:
The Floor of the Sky, Pamela Carter Joern,
University of Nebraska Press Flyover Fiction Series
Fiction
Honor:
The Cleanup, Sean Doolittle,
Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc.
Nonfiction:
The National Grasslands, Francis Moul,
Photography by Georg Joutras,
University of Nebraska Press Bison Books
Nonfiction Honor:
Toast to Omaha: A Cookbook,
Junior League of Omaha, Omaha Books
Poetry:
Things We Don't Know We Don't Know, Matt Mason,
The Backwaters Press
Award winners will be honored at the Nebraska Book Festival
www.nebraskabookfestival.org,
at a presentation in the Nebraska State Capitol Rotunda, at 11:00 a.m. on
Saturday, October 27. Books published in 2007 will be eligible for the 2008
Awards program. To receive notification of the 2008 Book Awards program, contact
Maria Medrano-Nehls,
402-471-2045 or 800-307-2665.
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The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the Nebraska
Library Commission and brings together the state's
readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, publishers, printers, educators, and
scholars to build the community of the book, supporting programs to
celebrate and stimulate public interest in books, reading,
and the written word. The Nebraska Center for the Book is supported by the
Nebraska Library
Commission.
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