{"id":2958,"date":"2020-06-07T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2020-06-07T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:45:10","slug":"bookpeople-wins-pannell-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=2958","title":{"rendered":"BookPeople Wins Pannell Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Winners have been announced for the 2020 Pannell Awards, given by the Women’s National Book Association<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and co-sponsored by the Penguin Young Readers Group to recognize bookstores that “enhance their communities by bringing exceptional creativity to foster a love of reading and books in children and young adults.” One Pannell Award is given to a general bookstore and one to a children’s specialty bookstore.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The winner in the general bookstore category is BookPeople<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Austin, Texas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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BookPeople was cited for the store’s “astonishing contribution to Austin, their outreach, their non-stop energy [that] makes them one of the great stores in this country,” for being “exemplary in all categories” and for “community outreach [that] goes the extra mile.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The children’s specialty bookstore winner is Little Shop of Stories<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Decatur, Georgia.                                                                                     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Each of the two winners will receive a $1,000 check and a framed signed original art piece from a children\u2019s book illustrator.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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