Connecticut Book AwardFinalist

Given by Connecticut Center for the Book

Other Names: Connecticut Book Award Finalist
181 Works 140 Books 4 Reviews 3.2
Stages:
All, Winner (69), Finalist (181)
Categories:
All, Andrea Wisnewski, Children's Illustrator (1), Andrea Wisnewski, Design (1), Barbara McClintock, Children's Illustrator (1), Barbara McClintock, Children’s Literature ― Illustrator (1), Benny Andrews, Children's Illustrator (1), Bibliography/Memoir (1), Bill Thomson, Children's Literature―Illustrator (1), Biography/Memoir (15), Children's Author (15), Children's Literature (2), Children’s Literature ― Author (2), Children’s Literature―Author (5), Deborah Dancy, Children's Illustrator, and Marilyn Nelson, Children's Author (1), Diane Smith, Design (1), Fiction (36), Georgiana Goodwin, Design (1), Howard I. Gralla, Design (1), Jane Sheppard, Design (1), John Alves, Design (1), Jonathan Rickard, Design (1), Karsten Harries, Design (1), Kate Duke, Children's Illustrator & Kate Duke, Children's Author (1), Lane Smith, Children's Literature―Illustrator (1), Lane Smith, Children’s Literature―Illustrator (1), Linda Bronson, Children's Illustrator (1), Lori S. Malkin, Design (1), Lynn Munsinger, Children's Illustrator (1), Marshall Cavendish, Children's Illustrator (1), Nancy Tafuri, Children's Illustrator (1), Non-Fiction (6), Nonfiction (34), Poetry (25), Rita Marshal, Design (1), Rita Marshall, Design (1), Ross MacDonald, Children's Illustrator (1), Sue Ramá, Children's Illustrator (2), Walter Wick, Children’s Literature ― Illustrator (1), Wendell Minor, Children's Illustrator (1), Wendell Minor, Children’s Illustrator (1), Winfred Rembert, Children’s Literature―Illustrator & Children’s Literature―Author (1), Young Readers (5), Young Readers — Young Adult (3), No Category (1)
Years:
All, 2018 (15), 2017 (13), 2011 (12), 2010 (16), 2009 (11), 2008 (18), 2007 (12), 2006 (21), 2005 (17), 2004 (17), 2003 (17), 2002 (12)

Finalist 181

WorkCategoryYear
The Child Finder by Rene DenfeldFiction2018
I Liked My Life by Abby FabiaschiFiction2018
The Sunshine Sisters by Jane GreenFiction2018
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia HunterFiction2018
Touch by Courtney MaumFiction2018
The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution by Virginia DeJohn AndersonNonfiction2018
A Home Called New England: A Celebration of Hearth and History by Duo DickinsonNonfiction2018
Setting the Stage: What We Do, How We Do It, and Why by David HaysNonfiction2018
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. ScottNonfiction2018
When Love Was Reels by gonzalezjosebPoetry2018
The Smoke of Horses (American Poets Continuum) by Charles RaffertyPoetry2018
Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD by Gina Athena UlyssePoetry2018
Poison: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines by Sarah AlbeeYoung Readers — Young Adult2018
Greetings from Witness Protection! by Jake BurtYoung Readers — Young Adult2018
Whale Quest: Working Together to Save Endangered Species by Karen Romano YoungYoung Readers — Young Adult2018
Back Lash (Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mysteries) by Chris KnopfFiction2017
I'll Take You There by Wally LambFiction2017
Shadows of Paris by Eric D. LehmanFiction2017
Cajun Waltz: A Novel by Robert H. PattonFiction2017
Rare light : J. Alden Weir in Windham, Connecticut, 1882-1919 by Anne E DawsonNon-Fiction2017
Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American by Okey NdibeNon-Fiction2017
The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent by Michael F. RobinsonNon-Fiction2017
The Banquet by Gray JacobikPoetry2017
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie ConnorYoung Readers2017
The Weight of Zero by Karen FortunatiYoung Readers2017
Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan HoodYoung Readers2017
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan MatsonYoung Readers2017
Good Night, Bat! Good Morning, Squirrel! by Paul MeiselYoung Readers2017
Mentors in the Garden of Life by Colleen PlimptonBiography/Memoir2011
The Education of Bet by Lauren Baratz-LogstedChildren's Author2011
Drum City by Thea GuidoneChildren's Author2011
Stay with Me: A Novel by Sandra Rodriguez BarronFiction2011
True Confections by Katharine WeberFiction2011
The Children's Hour by Kenneth S. RobsonNon-Fiction2011
War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914 by Cynthia WachtellNon-Fiction2011
Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau by Brian WalkerNon-Fiction2011
Walking with Ruskin: Poems by Robert CordingPoetry2011
Blue for Oceans by Charles DouthatPoetry2011
A Witness in Exile by Brian SpearsPoetry2011
The Last Train by Gordon M. TitcombWendell Minor, Children’s Illustrator2011
The Mitten by Jim AylesworthBarbara McClintock, Children's Illustrator2010
The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism by Nicholas Fox WeberBiography/Memoir2010
Emma Dilemma and the Camping Nanny by Patricia HermesChildren's Author2010
Quarry : a novel of suspense and mystery by Robert HollandChildren's Author2010
Open the Door to Liberty by Anne RockwellChildren's Author2010
Girl Friday by Jane GreenFiction2010
Hard Stop by Chris KnopfFiction2010
Hidden in plain sight : the Whittemore Collection and the French Impressionists by Ann Y SmithJohn Alves, Design2010
1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steven C. A. PincusNonfiction2010
Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Old Age and the World of Eldercare by Ira RosofskyNonfiction2010
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. ScottNonfiction2010
Stories in Stone: How Geology Influenced Connecticut History and Culture (Garnet Books) by Jelle Zeilinga de BoerNonfiction2010
That dark lake : poems by Don BarkinPoetry2010
Start with the Trouble: Poems (The University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series) by Daniel DonaghyPoetry2010
Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage by Leslie McGrathPoetry2010
Subway Ride by Heather Lynn MillerSue Ramá, Children's Illustrator2010
The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood by Margaret GibsonBiography/Memoir2009
Fly, Monarch! Fly! by Nancy Elizabeth WallaceChildren's Author2009
The Freedom Business: Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa by Marilyn NelsonDeborah Dancy, Children's Illustrator, and Marilyn Nelson, Children's Author2009
Dinosaurs on the Roof: A Novel by David RabeFiction2009
The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule by Fakhreddin AzimiNonfiction2009
Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation by Charles BarberNonfiction2009
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge Jr.Nonfiction2009
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin PhillipsNonfiction2009
Let's Not Call It Consequence by Richard DemingPoetry2009
The Odes of Horace by HoracePoetry2009
The Wolves Are Back by Jean Craighead GeorgeWendell Minor, Children's Illustrator2009
House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) by Michael DownsBiography/Memoir2008
The Seventeen Traditions by Ralph NaderBiography/Memoir2008
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise BroachChildren's Author2008
Scribble by Deborah FreedmanChildren's Author2008
The Day My Mother Left by James ProsekChildren's Author2008
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'NanFiction2008
On Borrowed Wings: A Novel by Chandra PrasadFiction2008
Spaceman Blues: A Love Song by Brian Francis SlatteryFiction2008
Soul Catcher by Michael C. WhiteFiction2008
Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier by Joel HafvensteinGeorgiana Goodwin, Design2008
Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years by Amanda LambJane Sheppard, Design2008
The Tale of Pip & Squeak by Kate DukeKate Duke, Children's Illustrator & Kate Duke, Children's Author2008
The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy TafuriNancy Tafuri, Children's Illustrator2008
The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial by Susan EatonNonfiction2008
Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back by Ann VileisisNonfiction2008
Teeth by Aracelis GirmayPoetry2008
The Wife of the Left Hand by Nancy KuhlPoetry2008
Hey Batta Batta Swing!: The Wild Old Days of Baseball by Sally CookRoss MacDonald, Children's Illustrator2008
Little Red Riding Hood by Andrea WisnewskiAndrea Wisnewski, Children's Illustrator2007
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby ApplegateBiography/Memoir2007
Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir by Mary-Ann Tirone SmithBiography/Memoir2007
Victory by Susan CooperChildren's Author2007
The Best Winds by Laura WilliamsChildren's Author2007
Two Time by Chris KnopfFiction2007
Everyman by Philip RothFiction2007
Mocha and related dipped wares, 1770-1939 by Jonathan RickardJonathan Rickard, Design2007
Journeys: Read Aloud Grade K Building with Dad by Houghton MifflinMarshall Cavendish, Children's Illustrator2007
Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish by Tom ShachtmanNonfiction2007
The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. ShapiroNonfiction2007
Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the University of Connecticut, 1881-2006 by Bruce M. StaveNonfiction2007
Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jim HaskinsBenny Andrews, Children's Illustrator2006
Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors by Charles BarberBiography/Memoir2006
Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix GrayBiography/Memoir2006
Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia by Carolyn SpiroBiography/Memoir2006
Basketball (or Something Like It) by Nora Raleigh BaskinChildren's Author2006
Shakespeare's Secret by Elise BroachChildren's Author2006
Bad Baby by Ross MacdonaldChildren's Author2006
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence by Judith St. GeorgeChildren's Author2006
Love and Ghost Letters by Chantel AcevedoFiction2006
The Last Refuge by Chris KnopfFiction2006
Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam LewisFiction2006
A Primitive Heart: Stories by David RabeFiction2006
The stolen texts of Molière : an exhibition of plagiarized, pirated & misappropriated works from the Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection by Eva Rose GuggemosHoward I. Gralla, Design2006
Science Verse by Jon ScieszkaLane Smith, Children's Literature―Illustrator2006
Think Cool Thoughts by Elizabeth Goodwin PerryLinda Bronson, Children's Illustrator2006
Seven Spunky Monkeys by Jackie French KollerLynn Munsinger, Children's Illustrator2006
Village of the Dammed: The Fight for Open Space and the Flooding of a Connecticut Town by James LomuscioNonfiction2006
MacArthur's Escape: Wild Man Bulkeley and the Rescue of an American Hero by George W. SmithNonfiction2006
American Sublime by Elizabeth AlexanderPoetry2006
Laws Of My Nature: Poems (Carnegie Mellon Poetry (Paperback)) by Margot SchilppPoetry2006
Yum! Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds by Linda Sue ParkSue Ramá, Children's Illustrator2006
Karate Hour by Carol NeviusBill Thomson, Children's Literature―Illustrator2005
Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia by Sam PickeringBiography/Memoir2005
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne CollinsChildren’s Literature―Author2005
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn NelsonChildren’s Literature―Author2005
Cobwebs by Karen Romano YoungChildren’s Literature―Author2005
Between Two Rivers: A Novel by Nicholas RinaldiFiction2005
The Plot Against America by Philip RothFiction2005
Our Kind by Kate WalbertFiction2005
The Garden of Martyrs by Michael C. WhiteFiction2005
The Trout Pool Paradox: The American Lives of Three Rivers by George BlackNonfiction2005
The Last Undiscovered Place by David K. LeffNonfiction2005
Eugene O'Neill and "Dat Ole Davil Sea" (Maritime) by Robert A. RichterNonfiction2005
Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste by Mark S. WeinerNonfiction2005
The Clerk's Tale: Poems by Spencer ReecePoetry2005
Instrumentality by Ravi ShankarPoetry2005
Stumbling Into the Light by Edwina TrenthamPoetry2005
Who Killed Cock Robin? by Étienne DelessertRita Marshal, Design2005
Uncas: First of the Mohegans by Michael Leroy ObergBiography/Memoir2004
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques PepinBiography/Memoir2004
Eleonora Duse: A Biography by Helen SheehyBiography/Memoir2004
Saving the Planet and Stuff by Gail GauthierChildren’s Literature―Author2004
Black All Around by Patricia HubbellChildren’s Literature―Author2004
Voices by Janice LawFiction2004
Family History by Dani ShapiroFiction2004
The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country by Lane SmithLane Smith, Children’s Literature―Illustrator2004
Diving the World: (Underwater) Photography by Norbert Wu by Norbert WuLori S. Malkin, Design2004
Naked in Baghdad by Anne GarrelsNonfiction2004
Race to the Sky: The Wright Brothers Versus the United States Government by Stephen B. GoddardNonfiction2004
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. NulandNonfiction2004
City : urbanism and its end by Douglas W. RaeNonfiction2004
The Day Before: Poems by Dick AllenPoetry2004
Autumn Grasses: Poems by Margaret GibsonPoetry2004
Don't Hold Me Back: My Life and Art by Winfred RembertWinfred Rembert, Children’s Literature―Illustrator & Children’s Literature―Author2004
The Little Women by Katharine Weber2004
A Cottage Garden Alphabet by Andrea WisnewskiAndrea Wisnewski, Design2003
Dahlia by Barbara McClintockBarbara McClintock, Children’s Literature ― Illustrator2003
Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased by Grace FarrellBibliography/Memoir2003
Pipaluk And The Whales by John HimmelmanChildren’s Literature ― Author2003
Lightland by Heather McCutchenChildren’s Literature ― Author2003
Nerves Of The Heart: A Novel by Lucy FerrissFiction2003
The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed by Janice LawFiction2003
Flesh Tones by M. J. RoseFiction2003
Love Her Madly by Mary-Ann Tirone SmithFiction2003
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis GaddisNonfiction2003
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914 by Peter GayNonfiction2003
Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels in Your Own Backyard by John HimmelmanNonfiction2003
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin PhillipsNonfiction2003
Against Consolation by Robert CordingPoetry2003
The Water Carrier by Steve StraightPoetry2003
Last Resort by Susan LewisRita Marshall, Design2003
Can You See What I See?: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve by Walter WickWalter Wick, Children’s Literature ― Illustrator2003
Emily Hall Tremaine : collector on the cusp by Kathleen L. HousleyBiography/Memoir2002
Shooting For The Moon: The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley by Stephen KrenskyChildren's Literature2002
Molly and the Magic Wishbone by Barbara McClintockChildren's Literature2002
Christmas in Connecticut (Broadcast Tie-Ins) by Diane SmithDiane Smith, Design2002
Personal Velocity by Rebecca MillerFiction2002
The Dying Animal by Philip RothFiction2002
Infinity and Perspective by Karsten HarriesKarsten Harries, Design2002
Beyond the Big Talk Revised Edition: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens - From Middle School to High School and Beyond by Debra W. HaffnerNonfiction2002
Sticks, Stones, & Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids by Martin IslerNonfiction2002
A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire & The Mystery of Little Miss 1565 by Don MasseyNonfiction2002
Icon and Evidence: Poems by Margaret GibsonPoetry2002
Darling: Poems by Honor MoorePoetry2002

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