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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1991
1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
*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 
icon; all others are Finalists)
1991 Biography
Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
Bill Holm
Milkweed Editions
The Days of Rondo
Evelyn Fairbanks
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Road Song
Natalie Kusz
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Grand Obsession: Madame Curie and Her World
Rosalynd Pflaum
Doubleday
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
Lawrence Sutin
Harmony Books
1991 Fantasy & Science Fiction
Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, book 1
Patricia C. Wrede
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: Jane Yolen Books
Phoenix
Steven Brust
Berkeley: Ace Books
Wolf and Iron
Gordon R. Dickson
T. Doherty Associates: A TOR Book
Hero
Joel Rosenberg
Penguin: A Roc Book
1991 Fiction
The Stone Canoe and Other Stories
John L. Peyton
McDonald & Woodward
North of Hope: A Novel
Jon Hassler
Ballantine
Medicine River
Thomas King
Viking
The Samaritan Treasure: Stories
Marianne Luban
Coffee House Press
Tokens of Grace: A Novel in Stories
Sheila O'Connor
Sharon Brown, illustrator
Milkweed Editions
1991 Information
How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences & Paragraphs for Every Situation
Rosalie Maggio
Prentice Hall
Teaching Kids to Love the Earth
Marina Lechecki Herman
Ann Schimpf
Joseph Passineau
Paul Treuer
Pfeifer-Hamilton
Minnesota Atlas: A Complete Guide to Public Lands and Water Accesses
John M. Hanson
Adventure Publications
1991 Mystery
Freeze Frame
Marjorie Dorner
Morrow
The Fool's Run
John Camp
Henry Holt
Hallowed Murder
Ellen Hart
Seal Press
Amends for Murder
M.D. Lake, pseud. of Allen Simpson
Avon Books
1991 Nature
The Bear Guardian: Northwoods Tales and Meditations
Peter M. Leschak
Jessica Allen Johnson, illustrator
North Star Press of St. Cloud
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
Janine M. Benyus
Glenn Wolff, illustrator
Simon & Schuster
The Geese of Silver Lake
Craig Blacklock
Voyageur Press
Prairie Skies
Paul Douglas
Laurie Kruhoeffer, illustrator
Voyageur Press
A Northwoods Window
Robert Treuer
Voyageur Press
1991 Non-Fiction
The Passionate, Accurate Story: Making Your Heart's Truth into Literature
Carol Bly
Milkweed Editions
Breaking Hard Ground: Stories of the Minnesota Farm Advocates.
Dianna Hunter, editor
Ken Meter, photographer
Dianna Hunter, photographer
Randi Roth, photographer
Carol Bly, Forword
Holy Cow! Press
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists
Philip Furia
Oxford University Press
Blue Ribbon: A Social and Pictorial History of the Minnesota State Fair
Karal Ann Marling
Minnesota Historical Society
The Anatomy of Judgment
Philip J. Regal
University of Minnesota Press
1991 Older Children
Woodsong
Gary Paulsen
Ruth Wright Paulsen, illustrator
Bradbury Press
A Dream of Queens and Castles
Marion Dane Bauer
Clarion Books
When Morning Comes
Patricia Calvert
Charles Scribner's Sons
The Music Box Christmas
Rosalie Maggio
Morrow
The Princess in the Pigpen
Jane Resh Thomas
Clarion Books
1991 Poetry
The Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems
John Caddy
R. W. Scholes, illustrator and designer
Milkweed Editions
How To Be Lucky
Jill Breckenridge
Bluestem Press; distributed by Small Press Distribution
Iron Woman: Poems
Diane Glancy
New Rivers Press
Caravan
Ethna McKiernan
Midwest Villages and Voices
Cherry Ferris Wheels
Patrick McKinnon
Black Hat Press
This Body She's Entered
Mary Kay Rummel
Sandra Rummel, illustrator
New River's Press
1991 Younger Children
How the Guinea Fowl Got Its Spots: A Swahili Tale of Friendship
Barbara Knutson
Carolrhoda Press
Arnie and the New Kid
Nancy Carlson
Viking
Dora's Book
Michelle Edwards
Carolrhoda Books
When Moose Was Young
Jim Latimer
Donald Carrick, illustrator
Charles Scribner's Sons
1991 Younger Children; International Children's Book Award
Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
Megan McDonald
S. D. Shindler, illustrator
Orchard Books
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