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The Great Perhaps is the fifth novel by Joe Meno. It was a winner of the Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction in 2009 and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. This article about a 2000s novel is a stub .
Candace Groth Fleming (born May 24, 1962) [1] is an American writer of children's books, both fiction and non-fiction. [2] She is the author of more than twenty books for children and young adults, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-honored The Family Romanov and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award-winning biography, The Lincolns, among others.
The book comprises connected tales about the fictional "Great Porter Circus", which made its winter home in the "Lima, Indiana", which stood in for the author's home town of Peru, Indiana. [4] The author is the great-niece of Henry Hoffman, an elephant trainer of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus who was killed by an elephant in 1901.
Canada Reads: Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes; Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Debra Anderson; honour of distinction, Greg Kearney. Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House [44] Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2009 Governor General's Awards.
The John Burroughs Medal, [1] named for nature writer John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association [2] to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural history. Only twice has the award been given to a work of fiction.
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2009–present Book RUSA Recommended lists ("Best of ...") Theodor Seuss Geisel Award: To the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children's literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year. 2006–present Book ALSC Youth Media Awards Jan
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