Book Sense
The winners of the 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards, honoring the titles ABA members most enjoyed handselling, are:
- Fiction: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead/Penguin)
- Nonfiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins)
- Children’s Literature: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
- Children’s Illustrated: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children)
The awards will be presented at ABA’s annual Celebration of Bookselling on Thursday, May 29, at Hotel ABA (the Renaissance Hollywood) during BookExpo America. For the honor titles, click here.
2 responses so far ↓
Jim McCluskey // March 23, 2008 at 7:45 am
Hugo Cabret is a story that is at least a third too long. I was bored out of my skull by about page 200. Maybe I was expecting too much, but I got very tired of the whole conceit of text and pictures. For me Hugo is another one of those award books, that doesn’t deliver the goods.
myounker // March 24, 2008 at 4:02 pm
definitely high praise for this one and when one’s expectations are too high…. i saw the author at ala right before the book was published, certainly charming, but haven’t read the book.
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