I attended the 3rd Annual Adirondack Center for Writing Literary Awards this afternoon. The Awards ceremony was held at the Blue Mountain Center in Blue Mountain Lake. This location was an Adirondack Great Camp called Eagle Nest, built by Durant and later owned by the founder of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. What a wonderful setting for the awards. The catagories considered for an award included Fiction, Poetry, Children’s Literature, Photgraphy and Non-Fiction, and in addition a People’s choice award. Books considered were published in or about the Adirondacks in 2008. March Toward the Thunder, by Joseph Bruchac, Dial Books won Best Children’s book for 2008. Other entries in this category were: Butternuts for Rexford by Tom Adessa; Skylar by Mary Cuffe-Perez, Philomel Books; Adirondack Gold II; A Summer of Strangers by Persis Granger, Beaver MEadow Publishing; Champlain and the Silent One by Kate Messner, North Country Books; Thomas Schneeberger, Publish America; When Thunder Rolls: The Underground Railroad and the Civil War by Irene Uttendorfsky, Spruce Gulch Press; The Adirondack Kids 8: Escape from Black Bear Mountain by Justin and Gary VanRiper, Adirondack Kids Press.
My book, Adirondack Mouse and the Perilous Journey won the 2006 Best Children’s Book Award.