2006 CAL Award Winners 

BOOK-LENGTH FICTION Genre – In Stone's Clasp by Christie Golden

Middle Grade/Young Adult – Makeovers by Marcia, by Claudia Mills

Children/Picture Books – I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women The Vote, by Linda Arms White

SHORT FICTION Adult – Progress Toward a Proof, by Lee Patton

Young Adult/Children – A Hundred Coconuts and a Top Hat, by Nancy Bo Flood

BOOK-LENGTH NONFICTION Service and Informational – Food Lovers’ Guide to Colorado: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants, Events and More, by Eliza Cross Castaneda

Narrative – The Complete Half-Aspenite, by Bruce Berger

Young Adult/Children – Panda Math: Learning About Subtraction from Hua Mei and Mei Sheng, by Ann Whitehead Nagda

NONFICTION ARTICLES Adult Feature – “For the Least Among Us,” by Cameron M. Burns

Adult Essay – “Singing in the Ear Canal,” by Gail Waldstein, M.D.

Young Adult/Children – “Puppets Without Strings,” by Nancy Bo Flood

POETRY Keeping Still, by Lois Beebe Hayna

SPECIALTY WRITING Neighborhoods In Nature, by Mary Taylor Young