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For information about the award criteria

2010 Award Winner Named

This year's Iowa Wild Rose Award winner is Carol Gorman.   Carol Gorman, a native Iowan, is the author of many elementary grade/middle school novels. Her middle grade novel, Dork in Disguise, was nominated for ten state choice awards (winner in five of those) and her sequels are very popular.   Two more Dork books followed.  Stumptown Kid is a sports-mystery novel set Iowa in the 1950s and involves prejudices during that period of time.  It has been named to nine state lists.  The idea for her novel, Games: A Tale of Two Bullies, originated during a visit to an Iowa school.  Carol and her husband (and fellow writer) Ed Gorman live and write in Cedar Rapids, IA.

The award will be presented at the award dinner on May 7th, 2010 
(The wild rose was named the state flower on this date in 1897).
Joy Long, Cedar Rapids Reading/Language Arts Facilitator will be a guest speaker:
In Her a Love, a "Rose," Cultivating a Love for Literacy
All interested parties are invited to attend.

Iowa Wild Rose Award Dinner
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Ruby Tuesday
217 Collins Rd NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

Reservation information for the award dinner
 is available by e-mailing:  awarddinner@iowawildroseaward.com
or calling (319) 393-2562 for information about sending a check
($22.00 includes tax and gratuity).
If you prefer to pay by credit card you may visit www.greenfrog-gifts.com/iowawildroseaward.html

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