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Award Winners to Be Feted in Brooklyn
May 03, 2007
 On
Thursday, May 31, the winners of the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
will be honored at the American Booksellers Association's Celebration of Bookselling
at Hotel ABA
-- The New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn. The gala event,
sponsored by Ingram Book Group/Ingram Publisher Services and open to all BookExpo
America attendees, will feature the presentation of this year's awards honoring
independent booksellers' handselling favorites as voted by the owners and staff
of ABA member stores.
"We're very pleased that all of the authors and illustrators whose books
were chosen to receive the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards will be joining
us at the Celebration of Bookselling," said Mark Nichols, the director
of Book Sense Marketing. "Their presence at the event will give booksellers
an opportunity to congratulate them and thank them for providing the books that
made handselling so much fun last year."
"We're very
pleased to serve as a sponsor for the Celebration of Bookselling again this
year," said Phil Ollila, senior vice president of Ingram Book Group. "We are looking forward to honoring those who are so deserving
of recognition for their hard work, creativity, and commitment to independent
bookselling."
Present to receive their awards will be:
- Fiction winner Sara Gruen for Water for Elephants: A Novel (Algonquin);
- Nonfiction winner Nora Ephron for I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other
Thoughts on Being a Woman (Knopf);
- Children's Literature winner Markus Zusak for The Book Thief (Knopf);
and
- Children's Illustrated winners Isabella Hatkoff and Craig Hatkoff for Owen
& Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship, (Scholastic)
The event will also feature the presentation of Publishers Weekly's
Bookseller of the Year Award to Tempe Arizona's Changing Hands Bookstore and
the Rep of the Year Award to HarperCollins' Kate McCune. Additionally, the Women's
National Book Association will bestow its Lucile Micheels Pannell Awards, honoring
the work of booksellers who promote children's and young people's interest in
books, to Books & Books of Miami and Coral Gables, Florida, and Wonderland
Books of Rockford, Illinois.
The Celebration of Bookselling will be held in the Marriott's Ballroom D/E
from 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. on Thursday.
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