Awards

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Among the gala festivities held at BookExpo America (BEA) were three recognizing the best of the best ...among independent handselling favorites, audiobooks, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered publishing.

Among the gala festivities held at BookExpo America (BEA) were three recognizing the best of the best ... among independent handselling favorites, audiobooks, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered publishing. The Book Sense Book of the Year Awards

Friday, June 4 -- Day 2 of BookExpo America -- was the occasion of two joyous celebrations of the spirit of independent booksellers -- the Book Sense Book and Author Lunch and ABA's Celebration of Bookselling, where the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award winners were announced. It was also opening day of the trade show floor and a day for ABA to take care of business at its Town Hall and Annual Membership meetings. And the Winners Are…

On May 20, Horn Book, Inc. announced the winners of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature. First presented in 1967, the awards are given in three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book. This year's winners are: Fiction and Poetry: The Fire-Eaters by David Almond (Delacorte) Nonfiction: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion)

On Monday, May 24, at a ceremony at Chelsea Piers in New York City, two women who helped organize a grassroots campaign to amend Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act will be among those honored with the Playboy Foundation's 2004 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award. Trina Magi, past president of the Vermont Library Association (VLA), and Linda Ramsdell, owner of the Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, Vermont, will receive the First Amendment Award in the field of Education. "I'm excited and honored that we're recognized," said Ramsdell.

The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) has announced the winners of the 2004 Lucile Micheels Pannell Awards.

Balloting to choose the winners of the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards ends on Wednesday, May 12, the final day that ABA member bookstores may fax the ballot to KPMG, the association's accountant. All ABA member stores are eligible to vote, but only one ballot per store is allowed (the first form received from a store will be the official ballot). A ballot was sent to all stores in early April and is available in a downloadable PDF format by clicking here.

For the ninth year in a row, tens of thousands of book-lovers from all over Southern California gathered at the UCLA campus this past weekend for the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. With temperatures near 90 degrees on both Saturday and Sunday, an estimated total of 130,000 attended the two-day free event. Nearly 300 exhibitors occupied booths along campus quads; and over 400 authors (among them T.C.

The 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards will be announced at the Celebration of Bookselling, on Friday, June 4, during this year's BookExpo America (BEA) in Chicago. Here, BTW takes a look at the five finalists in the Adult Fiction category. (For the complete list of finalists, click here.) All nominated authors and illustrators are being invited to attend the award ceremonies and the Book Sense Lunch, also to be held on Friday, June 4, at BEA.