Minnesota Book Awards2012

Given by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library

Other Names: Minnesota Book Awards Finalist
32 Works / 33 Items 3,722 Books 220 Reviews ½ 3.9
Current Minnesota residents, and Minnesota residents during the year are eligible for the Award. The primary selection criteria, in order, are: demonstrated excellence and innovation of artistic show more work in the book arts throughout a career, or combined careers in the case of a long-standing collaborative group, and significant artistic contributions to Minnesota’s book arts community.


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Stages:
All, Winner (395), Finalist (1,537)
Categories:
All, Anthologies (6), Anthology & Collection (4), Anthology & Collections (16), Anthology or Collection of Short Stories (3), Architecture (2), Art and Music (3), Autobiography & Biography (3), Autobiography & Memoir (18), Autobiography, Biography, Memoir (3), Autobiography, Memoir, & Creative Nonfiction (9), Biography (17), Biography and History (4), Biography and Memoir (4), Book Cover Design (2), Book Design & Execution (4), Children (10), Children's (9), Children's Fiction (3), Children's Literature (77), Children's Nonfiction (32), Children's Picture Books (8), Children's and Young Adult Nonfiction (7), Children’s Fiction and Poetry (4), Collected Works (17), Collections (3), Creative Nonfiction (7), Cuisine (4), Education, Teaching, Academic (2), Fantasy & Science Fiction (29), Fiction (31), Fiction - Novel or Collection of Short Stories by a Single Author (3), Fine Press (17), Fun & Humor (3), Gardening, Nature, Environmental (3), General Nonfiction (80), Genre (3), Genre Fiction (69), Genres (4), Help & Guidance (18), History (26), History & Biography (23), History, Politics, and Culture (3), Honor Award (1), Illustrated Book (21), Information (30), Interior Book Design (2), International Children's Book Award (1), Memoir (5), Memoir & Creative Nonfiction (67), Memoirs (4), Middle Grade Literature (32), Minnesota (47), Minnesota Community of the Book Special Award (3), Minnesota Nonfiction (30), Minnesota Places (3), Minnesota Subject (3), Multicultural (3), Mystery (8), Mystery & Detective (24), Nature (24), Nature & Minnesota (22), New Age, Metaphysics, and Spirituality (3), New Voice (3), Nonfiction (43), Novel (19), Novel & Short Story (89), Novels & Short Stories (6), Older Children (18), Older Children's Fiction (4), Older Children's Nonfiction (4), Personal Narrative (3), Personal Papers (3), Personal Voices (13), Photography (3), Picture Books (14), Picture Books - Author (6), Picture Books - Illustrator (6), Poetry (147), Popular Fiction (27), Readers' Choice Award (6), Science & Nature (3), Short Stories (15), Short Story (1), Young Adult (15), Young Adult Fiction (15), Young Adult Fiction and Poetry (4), Young Adult Literature (38), Young Adult Nonfiction (6), Young People's Fiction (3), Young People's Literature (32), Younger Children (43), Younger Children—Author (1), Younger Children—Illustrator (1), Youth Literature (4), No Category (22)
Years:
All, 2024 (30), 2023 (33), 2022 (33), 2021 (35), 2020 (35), 2019 (36), 2018 (36), 2017 (34), 2016 (30), 2015 (32), 2014 (32), 2013 (31), 2012 (33), 2011 (33), 2010 (33), 2009 (32), 2008 (33), 2007 (29), 2006 (56), 2005 (54), 2004 (52), 2003 (59), 2002 (34), 2001 (43), 2000 (38), 1999 (73), 1998 (72), 1997 (68), 1996 (69), 1995 (68), 1994 (71), 1993 (41), 1992 (53), 1991 (48), 1989 (32), 1988 (22)

Winner 9

WorkCategoryYear
BookSpeak!: Poems About Books by Laura Purdie SalasChildren's Literature2012
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence OttoGeneral Nonfiction2012
Big Wheat: A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood by Richard A ThompsonGenre Fiction2012
A Song at Twilight - Of Alzheimer's and Love by Nancy PaddockMemoir & Creative Nonfiction2012
Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota's first generation of women artists by Julie L'EnfantMinnesota2012
The Law of Miracles by Gregory Blake SmithNovel & Short Story2012
Whorled by Ed Bok LeePoetry2012
The Tanglewood Terror by Kurtis ScalettaReaders' Choice Award2012
With or Without You by Brian FarreyYoung People's Literature2012

Finalist 33

WorkCategoryYear
BookSpeak!: Poems About Books by Laura Purdie SalasChildren's Literature2012
The Last Day of Kindergarten by Nancy LoewenChildren's Literature2012
Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce SidmanChildren's Literature2012
Friends: True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships by Catherine ThimmeshChildren's Literature2012
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence OttoGeneral Nonfiction2012
Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America by Eric DregniGeneral Nonfiction2012
Trout Caviar: Recipes from a Northern Forager by Brett LaidlawGeneral Nonfiction2012
Punishing race : a continuing American dilemma by Michael TonryGeneral Nonfiction2012
Big Wheat: A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood by Richard A ThompsonGenre Fiction2012
The Bone House by Brian FreemanGenre Fiction2012
Northwest Angle by William Kent KruegerGenre Fiction2012
Death of the Mantis by Michael StanleyGenre Fiction2012
A Song at Twilight - Of Alzheimer's and Love by Nancy PaddockMemoir & Creative Nonfiction2012
Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine FriendMemoir & Creative Nonfiction2012
The last deployment : how a gay, hammer-swinging twentysomething survived a year in Iraq by Bronson LemerMemoir & Creative Nonfiction2012
For Love of Lakes by Darby NelsonMemoir & Creative Nonfiction2012
Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota's first generation of women artists by Julie L'EnfantMinnesota2012
Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam by Kim HeikkilaMinnesota2012
Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View from the Rez by Jim NorthrupMinnesota2012
The Pillsburys of Minnesota by Lori SturdevantMinnesota2012
The Law of Miracles by Gregory Blake SmithNovel & Short Story2012
Merit badges by Kevin FentonNovel & Short Story2012
In Caddis Wood: A Novel by Mary François RockcastleNovel & Short Story2012
The Long-Shining Waters by Danielle SosinNovel & Short Story2012
Whorled by Ed Bok LeePoetry2012
Bodies of Light by Athena KildegaardPoetry2012
Invisible Strings: Poems by Jim MoorePoetry2012
Buddha, Proof by Su SmallenPoetry2012
The Tanglewood Terror by Kurtis ScalettaReaders' Choice Award2012
With or Without You by Brian FarreyYoung People's Literature2012
The Big Crunch by Pete HautmanYoung People's Literature2012
The Tanglewood Terror by Kurtis ScalettaYoung People's Literature2012
Spellbound by Jacqueline WestYoung People's Literature2012

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