---------

Finalists Announced for the 2010 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards by Alexandra Kroeger - Sunday, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:52pm

As paraphrased from the Canadian Children's Book Centre website:

The Canadian Children's Book Centre has announced the finalists for the 2010 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l'enfance et la jeunesse, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction and Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.

The winners of the English-language awards will be announced on November 9, 2010, and the winners of the Prix TD de literature canadienne pour l'enfance et la jeunesse will be announced November 2, 2010. Overall, $110,000 in prize monies will be awarded.

We at McNally Robinson Grant Park would like to congratulate Winnipeg author Colleen Sydor, whose Timmerman Was Here is a finalist for the $20,000 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. See the website for a full list of all of the finalists.

Categories: Awards

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award 2010 Shortlist by Alexandra Kroeger - Friday, May 07, 2010 at 11:55am

The shortlist for the 2010 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards have been announced!

The two awards, worth $6,000 each, honour the best in writing and illustration in Canadian children's literature.

The nominees in the children's picture book category are:

  • Perfect Snow by Barbara Reid
  • When Stella was Very, Very Small by Marie-Louise Gay
  • Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by Jane Barclay
  • Scaredy Squirrel at Night by Melanie Watt
  • The Imaginary Garden by Andrew Larsen

The nominees in the young adult/middle reader category are:

  • Vanishing Girl by Shane Peacock
  • The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy by Jill MacLean
  • earthgirl by Jennifer Cowan
  • The Mealworm Diaries by Anna Kerz
  • The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

Last year's winners were Chester's Back! by Melanie Watt in the children's picture book category, and in the young adult/middle reader category the winner was Libertad by Alma Fullerton.

Categories: Awards

Kids Awards by Alexandra Kroeger - Saturday, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:41pm

Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Award

The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator?s Award is presented by the Canadian Association of Children?s Librarians, a section of the Canadian Association of Public Libraries (CAPL). This award was established in 1971 and is presented annually to the illustrator of an outstanding children?s book published during the previous calendar year. The Canadian Library Association (CLA) has recently announced that Perfect Snow, illustrated by Barbara Reid is this year's winner.

The two honourable mentions are:

  • Timmerman Was Here, illustrated by Nicolas Debon
  • You're mean, Lily Jean, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

The complete shortlist can be found on the CLA website.

IBBY Canada Cleaver Picture Book Award

The Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award was established in 1985 following the death of Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver, one of Canada's pre-eminent book illustrators. The recipient is a Canadian illustrator of a picture book published in Canada in English or French during the previous calendar year. This year, the award was presented to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Oleg Lipchenko. According to the press release:

This is a captivating book in every way... The windowed book cover, gold embossed pages, detailed end pages, and faded, old-photograph colouring of the illustrations, are all visual pieces that work together to make reading it a special adventure. Lipchenko's illustrations are more than images on a page, they are a homage to the surreal quality and humour of Lewis Carroll's text, as well as a meticulously and brilliantly constructed original vision of a longstanding tradition in children's literature.

Categories: Awards

2010 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award awarded to OSU Children's Library Fund by Tracy Howard - Tuesday, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:50pm

Congratulations to OSU Children's Library Fund for being one of two projects awarded the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award. This award, initiated by the International Board on Books for Young People and sponsored by the Japanese newspaper company the Asahi Shimbun, is presented to projects run by groups or institutions that are judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion for children and young people.

Winnipegger Kathy Knowles, good friend of McNally Robinson Booksellers,and author of many fine children's books about Ghana, is the founder of OSU Children's Library Fund. We take great pleasure in offering our congratulations to Kathy and her many supporters for the great work they have done and continue to do in Ghana.

Categories: Awards, Site News, Authors

more...


THE MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS 2010 SHORTLISTS by Matt MacHutchon - Saturday, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:37pm

The Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers have announced the Manitoba Book Awards shortlists. Winners will be announced at the Manitoba Book Awards Gala on Sunday, April 25, 2010, at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 boulevard Provencher. A pre-awards reception will begin at 7:00 p.m. and the ceremony will run from 8:00-10:00 p.m. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. This year's ceremony will be hosted by Neil Besner, Vice President and former Dean of Arts of the University of Winnipeg. Since the event's inception in 1989, during which a single award (the McNally Robinson Book of the Year) was presented, The Manitoba Book Awards has grown to feature 13 categories. Nominees and winners are selected by jurors drawn from across Manitoba and Canada.

Categories: Awards

more...


    1 2 3 4 -   Earlier >


or Order by Phone 1 800 561 1833

McNally Robinson Gift Cards
Reader Reward Card