Good News

Congratulations to the finalists for the Oregon Book
Awards! (Thanks to Suz Blackaby for the list)

ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Dale E. Basye of Portland, Rapacia:The Second Circle of Heck (Random House)
Dawn Babb Prochovnic of Portland, The Nest Where I Like to Rest (Magic
Wagon)
Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego, Calvin Coconut: The Zippy Fix (Wendy Lamb
Books)
Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen of Hines A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose
(Little Brown and Company)
Barbara Kerley of Portland, The Extraordinary Mark Twain (Scholastic Press)

LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Scott William Carter of Salem, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon
Boys (Simon and Schuster)
Kerry Cohen Hoffman of Portland, It's Not You, It's Me (Random House)
Anne Osterlund of Ione, Academy 7 (Penguin Group)
L.K. Madigan of Portland, Flash Burnout (Houghton Mifflin)
Emily Whitman of Portland, Radiant Darkness (Greenwillow/Harper Collins)

AND three cheers for Barb Liles, who snagged Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in
Young Readers Literature.

Hip! Hip!