Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 2006

1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

*Note: No awards were held in 1990. 

Please also note that the award winners listed for each year were awarded in the year following publication (i.e. winners published in 2007 were announced in 2008 at the 20th Annual Minnesota Book Awards).

(Winners indicated by the Indicates Winner icon; all others are Finalists)

2006 Anthology & Collection

Indicates Winner  Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community
Kate Cavett, editor
Syren Book Company

Christmas in Minnesota
Marilyn Ziebarth, editor
Brian Horrigan, editor
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Kiss Me Goodnight: Stories and Poems by Women Who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died
Ann O’Fallon, editor
Margaret Vaillancourt, editor
Syren Book Company (New Voice)

Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past
Minnesota Quilt Project, text
Greg Winter, photography
Lee Sandberg, photography
Voyageur Press

 

2006 Autobiography, Memoir, & Creative Nonfiction

Indicates Winner  Left for Dead: A Second Life After Vietnam
Jon Hovde
Maureen Anderson
University of Minnesota Press (New Voice)

Crossing Three Wilderness
U Sam Oeur
Ken McCullough
Coffee House Press

Humble Pie: Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust
Anne Dimock
Andrews McMeel Publishing (New Voice)

On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood & Holiness
Elizabeth J. Andrew
Westview Press/Perseus Books

The Summer of Ordinary Ways
Nicole Lea Helget
Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press (New Voice)

 

2006 Children’s and Young Adult Nonfiction

Indicates Winner Wanda Gág: Storybook Artist
Gwenyth Swain
Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press

Marooned: The Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe
Robert Kraske
Robert Andrew Parker, illustrator
Clarion Books

Minnesota’s Capitol: A Centennial Story
Leigh Roethke
Afton Historical Society Press

Muhammad Ali: Genius
Nick Healy
Creative Education

 

2006 Children’s Fiction

Indicates Winner   The Counterfeit Princess
Jane Resh Thomas
Clarion Books

A Bear Named Trouble
Marion Dane Bauer
Clarion Books

Bridge to America
Linda Glaser
Houghton Mifflin

Stinky Stern Forever
Michelle Edwards
Harcourt Children’s Books

 

2006 Children’s Picture Book

Indicates Winner   Fold Me a Poem
Kristine O’Connell George
Lauren Stringer, illustrator
Harcourt Children’s Books

Dear Big, Mean, Ugly Monster
Ruth Marie Berglin
Carl Sirocco, illustrator
Child & Family Press (New Voice)

If Frogs Made Weather
Marion Dane Bauer
Dorothy Donahue, illustrator
Holiday House

Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems
Joyce Sidman
Beckie Prange, illustrator
Houghton Mifflin

 

2006 Fine Press

Indicates Winner   Ghost Poems for the Living: 13 Sonnets by Shakespeare with Distillations
William Shakespeare, text
Paulette Myers-Rich, text
Traffic Street Press

Mayflies of the Driftless Region
Gaylord Schanilec, wood engravings
Clarke Garry, identifications
Midnight Paper Sales

Putting Tomatoes By
Paul Gruchow, text
C. B. Sherlock, producer
Regula Russelle, producer
Jenny Eisenman Anderson, assistant
Jennifer Bolanos, assistant
Wendy Fernstrum, assistant
Fred J. Larson, assistant
Candida Pagan, assistant
Stephen Pittelkow, assistant
Jana Pullman, assistant
Accordion Productions

There Is No Other Way to Speak
Bill Holm, editor
Wendy Fernstrum, printer
Robyn Stoller, printer
Regular Russelle, binder
C. B. Sherlock, binder
Jeff Rathermel, project director
Minnesota Center for Book Arts

 

2006 General Nonfiction

Indicates Winner   Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
Winona LaDuke
South End Press

The Ambivalent Arts of Katherine Anne Porter
Mary Titus
University of Georgia Press

Barns of Minnesota
Will Weaver
Doug Ohman, photography
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues
Wellstone Action
Bill Lofy, editor
University of Minnesota Press

Roads Less Traveled: Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth
Catherine Watson
Syren Book Company

 

2006 History & Biography

Indicates Winner   The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
Jack El-Hai
John Wiley & Sons

Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota
Sally J. Southwick
Ohio University Press

Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
Kent Nerburn
HarperSanFranciso

The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner and Lincoln
Michael William Pfau
Michigan State University Press

Rudy! The People’s Governor
Betty Wilson
Nodin Press

 

2006 Novel and Short Story

Indicates Winner   The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins

Beautiful Inez
Bart Schneider
Shaye Areheart Books/Crown Publishing

Gardenias
Faith Sullivan
Milkwood Editions

Somebody’s Daughter
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Beacon Press

 

2006 Poetry

Indicates Winner   Lightning at Dinner
Jim Moore
Graywolf Press

Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems 1986-2005
Ray Gonzalez
BOA Editions

The Mother’s Tongue
Heid E. Erdrich
Salt Publishing

Polar
Dobby Gibson
Alice James Books (New Voice)

Real Karaoke People
Ed-Bok Lee
New Rivers Press

 

2006 Popular Fiction

Indicates Winner  The Iron Girl
Ellen Hart
St. Martin’s Minotaur

Dead Run
P.J. Tracy
G. P. Putnam’s Sons

Mercy Falls
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books

Poison Heart
Mary Logue
Ballantine Books

Tin City
David Housewright
St. Martin’s Minotaur

 

2006 Science & Nature 

Indicates Winner   A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays
John Hildebrand
Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press

Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times
Calvin R. Fremling
University of Wisconsin Press

Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota
Lynn M. Steiner, writer and photographer
Voyageur Press

 

2006 Young Adult Fiction

Indicates Winner   All Rivers Flow to the Sea
Alison McGhee
Candlewick Press

Full Service
Will Weaver
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Invisible
Peter Hautman
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Just Like That
Marsha Qualey
Dial Books

Residence
Janet Graber
Marshall Cavendish

 

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The Minnesota Book Awards is a Capital City project, led by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library,
in consortium with the Saint Paul Public Library and the Mayor’s office in the City of Saint Paul. 
Outreach partners for the Book Awards include the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA)
and the Minnesota Library Association (MLA).