Oregon Book Award winners announced for 2012

The winners of the 2012 Oregon Book Awards were announced last night in Portland. Here's a list of the winning titles, with links to the WCCLS catalog.

	Calvin Coconut: Hero of Hawaii By Graham Salisbury Winner of the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature
	Wildwing By Emily Whitman Winner of the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature
	Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: the Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary By Kenneth J. Ruoff Winner of the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction
	The Shape of the Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, and the Stories We Inherit By George Estreich Winner of the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction
	Curses and Wishes: Poems By Carl Adamshick Winner of the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
	The Sisters Brothers By Patrick deWitt Winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction
	Footnotes in Gaza By Joe Sacco Winner of the Pacific Northwest College of Art Graphic Literature Award
	The Chronology of Water: a Memoir By Lidia Yuknavitch Winner of the Readers Choice Award

Congratulations to all of the winners! See all of the finalists for the 2012 awards here, and see all of the past finalists here.