Emma Donoghue's ROOM has been selected by booksellers as the fiction winner of the ABA's Indie Choice awards, with Laura Hillenbrand's UNROKEN claiming the prize for nonfiction. Karl Malantes' MATTERHORN was picked as adult debut book of the year, and Jennifer Donnelly's REVOLUTION was the young adult winner.Tom Angleberger's The Strange Case of Origami Yoda was the middle reader winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, and Peter Brown's Children Make Terrible Pets won the same award in the picture book category.
ABA member booksellers selected Laurie Halse Anderson as Most Engaging Author, "for her exceptional involvement and responsiveness during in-store appearances and for having a strong sense of the importance of indie booksellers to their local communities."
And these four books will be added to the Indies Choice Picture Book Hall of Fame:
Corduroy, by Don Freeman
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton
The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
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