Massachusetts Book Award Winners for the Year 2003
Honoring books published in 2002.
Celebrated at Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, & National Yiddish Book Center, Hampshire College, Amherst, 14 September 2003.
Massachusetts Book Medal
Eric Carle
Who reminds us as always to stop and look at the pictures
Fiction Award
Sea Room by Norman G. Gautreau
(MacAdam/Cage Publishing)
Fiction Honors
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Lisa Borders
(River City Publishing )
My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
(Grove Press)
Nonfiction Award
Revere Beach Elegy by Roland Merullo
(Beacon Press)
Nonfiction Honors
Black Livingstone by Pagan Kennedy
(Viking Press)
Choosing Naia by Mitchell Zuckoff
(Beacon Press)
Poetry Award
Never by Jorie Graham
(Ecco Press/HarperCollins)
Poetry Honors
Blind Huber by Nick Flynn
(Graywolf Press)
Among the Musk Ox People by Mary Ruefle
(Carnegie Mellon)
Children’s / Young Adult Literature Award
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
young adult title – for mature readers
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Frances Foster Books)
Children’s / Young Adult Honors
Little Rat Sets Sail by Monika Bang-Campbell & Molly Bang
(Harcourt Children's Books)
What Charlie Heard by Mordicai Gerstein
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Frances Foster Books)