Awards and Nominations
Ella Minnow Pea was selected as Borders' Book of the Year.
Ella Minnow Pea was a "Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers and a Borders Original Voices pick (and a finalist for Original Voices Book of the Year), but it ranked second on the Top Ten BookSense 76 Picklist."
Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell (script/lyrics) and Paul Loesel (composer) selected it out of many books to be produced as a musical, and got its first full production in November 2008 at the Arthur Miller Theatre on the University of Michigan campus, performed by auditioned students in the respected musical theater program. Anne Markt and Derek Carley starred. The full story can be read at Playbill.
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