2010 New England Book Award Winners
The New England Independent Booksellers Association is proud to announce the winners of their
2010 New England Book Awards:
Fiction: Father of the Rain by Lily King (Grove Atlantic).
Lily King's third and most ambitious novel
to date is a sharply insightful family drama set in an upper-middle-class East Coast suburb where
she traces a complex volatile father-daughter relationship from the 1970's to the present day.
She lives in Portland, Maine.
Non-fiction: Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell (Random House).
Gail Caldwell's memoir
about the transition from being a fiercely private person to learning to share her life with an exuberant
puppy and new best friend, writer Caroline Knapp. They develop a deeply profound friendship and grow
increasingly inseparable until Caroline is suddenly diagnosed with lung cancer. Gail Caldwell was awarded
the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2001 and resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Children's Books: City Dog, Country Frog written by Mo Willems and illustrated by
Jon J
Muth(Hyperion).
A word and picture perfect first-time collaboration between best-selling
children's writer/illustrators, Mo Willems and Jon J Muth. This is a warm and understated story
of an unlikely friendship between two seemingly incompatible animals that is fresh, timeless and
surely to become a classic. Mo Willems lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Jon J Muth lives
in upstate New York.
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This book is full of humor & suspense. I liked it much more than Harry Potter due to the evocative prose and illuminating details.
The characters are like kids you might know, except for their propensity to turn into monsters. This is a fun-filled
romp that also subtly shows the value of friendship and in allowing yourself to become the person you were meant to be.
I will follow this series to the very end. If you loved
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, you will love it.
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What influences how far a child will advance in her education? The parents'
level of education would seem like a strong indicator, but it turns out there's
an even more concrete one, says LiveScience.com: the number of books in the home.
A recent study by University of Nevada sociologists analyzed 20 years of data on 73,000
people in 27 countries, including the U.S. It found that a child born into a family of
average income and education but with 500 books in the house would, on average
attain 12 years of education-three years more than an equivalent child with no books
at home. The more books are presemt, the greater the educational benefit. "Even a little
bit goes a long way," says study author Maria Evans. The presence of books, in fact,
was twice as important to children's progress in school as the father's level of
education. "You get a lot of 'bang for your book," Evan says.
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June 11, 2010
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