2008 Benjamin Franklin Award (Awarded by Independent Book Publishers Association)

Awards List

Audio Fiction

The Wednesday Letters
(Winner)
Jason F. Wright

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(Finalist)
Mohsin Hamid

What Is the What
(Finalist)
Dave Eggers

Children's Book W/Audio

Grandma's Feather Bed
(Winner)
John Denver

Children's Picture

Grandma's Feather Bed
(Winner)
John Denver

Cover Design (Small)

Two Brothers: One North, One South
(Winner)
David H. Jones

Cover Design-Child & Y/A

Agate: What Good Is a Moose?
(Finalist)
Joy M. Dey

Gay/Lesbian

Red Light
(Finalist)
J.D. Glass

New Voice Children-Y/A

The King and the Fire Chanter
(Finalist)
Arran Wend

New Voice Fiction

First, There Is a River
(Finalist)
Kathy Steffen

Popular Fiction

Never Surrender
(Finalist)
Michael Dobbs

Hundred in the Hand
(Finalist)
Joseph M. Marshall III

Religion

The War of the Rosens
(Finalist)
Janice Eidus

Award Categories

Animals/Pets

Audio Fiction

Audio-Children's

Audiobook

Boty-Budget Over 10k

Boty-Budget Under 10k

Children's Book W/Audio

Children's Picture Book (0-3 Years)

Children's Picture Book (4-7 Years)

Cover Design (Small)

Cover Design-1-2 Color

Cover Design-3 + Color

Cover Design-3+child-Y/A

Cover Design-3+color Lg

Cover Design-3+color SM

Cover Design-Child & Y/A

Cover Design-Fiction

Crafts/Hobby/How-To

E-Book

Education/Teaching

Fiction

Fiction-Teen

First Children & Y/A

First Fiction

Gay/Lesbian

Award Years

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

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2003