Minnesota Book Award Finalists

The Finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards have been announced!

Here are the Finalists in the categories of Children's Literature and Young People's Literature:

Children's Literature

- BookSpeak! Poems About Books by Laura Purie Salas and illustrated by Josee Bisaillon.

- Friends: True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships by Catherine Thimmesh.

- The Last Day of Kindergarten by Nancy Loewen and illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa.

- Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Beth Krommes.

Young People's Literature

- The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman

- The Books of Elsewhere: Spellbound by Jacqueline West

- The Tanglewood Terror by Kurtis Scaletta

- With or Without You by Brain Farrey