The Canadian Association of Children's Librarians Section of the Canadian Association of Public Libraries, a division of the Canadian Library Association, has announced the shortlist for the 2009 Book of the Year Award for Children.

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog$17.00 add to cart

For the past five years, Europa Editions has been making a success of publishing attractively-packaged literary novels in translation. One of its titles, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, has turned out to be a surprise hit and has held its place on the New York Times bestseller list for six weeks now.

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Talisman$8.99 add to cart

Del Rey Books has acquired the rights to publish comic book and graphic novel adaptations of Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman. Some of King's works have already made a successful transition to the graphic form with Marvel Comics, who released two volumes of his The Dark Tower as graphic novels: The Gunslinger Born and The Long Road Home. Marvel is currently adapting another of the horror giant's signature works, The Stand.

 

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The Gargoyle$32.95 add to cart

With total advances (not including film rights) approaching the two million-dollar mark, Andrew Davidson has rocked the publishing world with his debut novel The Gargoyle.

Growing up in Pinawa, home of Atomic Energy of Canada's former Whiteshell Laboratories, he traveled the world before moving back to Winnipeg in 2008 to finish what Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants) describes as "a hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel."

Andrew kindly took the time to answer some questions for our website readers. The full interview follows.

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