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The 2007 Connecticut Book Award Ceremony The 2007 Connecticut Book Awards, the Connecticut Center for the Book’s tribute to the state’s literary notables and illustrious illustrators and designers.
(left to right) Master of Ceremonies Richard Sugarman, keynote speaker Roya Hakakian, Jean Chapin (accepting Design award for Wendell Minor), Children’s Author winner Lane Smith, Biography winner Denis R. Caron, Fiction winner Katharine Weber, Nonfiction winner David Brion Davis, Children’s Illustrator winner Barbara McClintock, Lifetime Achievement winner Morton Schindel, Chief Librarian Louise Blalock of Hartford Public Library
Awards presenters (left to right) Norm Pattis (Fiction), Jim Lee (Design), Patricia D’Ascoli (Children’s Author), Mary Etter (Biography or Memoir), Robert Thorson (Nonfiction), Billie Levy (Lifetime Achievement), Bill Williams (Children’s Illustrator)
Keynote speaker Roya Hakakian
Long-time, passionate proponents of children’s literature: Billie M. Levy, chairperson of the Children’s Illustrator panel, and Morton Schindel, recipient of the 2007 award for Lifetime Achievement in Service to the Literary Community
Biography finalist Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, with husband Bruce Tulgan (right) and Hartford Public Library Board member Stephen Goddard (center)
Design finalist Jonathan Rickard signing Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939, accompanied by Lillian Rhodes
Author of Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish, Nonfiction finalist Tom Shachtman
Memoir finalist Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, author of Girls of Tender Age, with Connecticut Book Awards judge Tom Smith and Kat Lyons, coordinator of Connecticut Center for the Book at Hartford Public Library—all Hartford Public High School alumni
Nonfiction finalist Bruce Stave signing Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits
Children’s Illustrator finalist Bill Thomson signing Building with Dad
Laura Williams, Children’s Author finalist, signing The Best Winds
(left to right) Publisher David R. Godine, Christopher Butler, Children’s Illustrator finalist for Little Red Riding Hood Andrea Wisnewski, and David Johnson, 2003 Children’s Illustrator winner
Chief Librarian Louise Blalock with Ravi Shankar, CCB Advisory Council member and chairperson of the Poetry panel, and Brian Johnson, a judge on the 2007 panel
2007 Fiction winner Katharine Weber with Connecticut Centre for the Book Advisory Council member Stewart O’Nan, Fiction winner for 2003 and 2004
(left to right) Barbara McClintock, winner of the 2007 Children’s Illustrator award, with award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Cari Best and Caroline Ward, Youth Services Coordinator for The Ferguson Library, Stamford
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