'Tis the season for awards announcements! Today we have two:
Saskatchewan native has won the $25,000 TD Canadian Children's Literature award for The Hunchback Assignments.
"As an exciting spy thriller for young audiences, Arthur Slade's The Hunchback Assignments embodies the creativity and dedication to children's literature we hope to encourage with the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award," says Frank McKenna, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group and TD's Literacy Champion. "It's well known that developing a love for reading at an early age can help create a lasting relationship with books. The Hunchback Assignments is that electrifying, page-turning story we need to keep our young readers engaged." (source)
Also, has won the $20,000 Vicky Metcalf award, which honours a body of work. As the Writers' Trust website says,
Polly Horvath has a lively, daring imagination that expresses itself in children's novels that balance the lyrical with the mordant, the poignant with the darkly absurd. Her earliest works tend towards the light and comic; her middle works towards the black-humoured, gothic and brave; her most recent are softer and tinged with wonder. In truth, though, all her novels have all these qualities in different measure, and in all she confronts the inexplicable vagaries of human nature with an inimitable, stylish blend of satire, wit and compassion.
Congratulations to both authors!
Categories: Awards
The finalists for the 2010 Governor General Awards have been announced! Here are the children's titles; for a full listing, see the Canada Council for the Arts website.
Children's Literature - Text
- Me, Myself and Ike by (Orca Book Publishers)
- Tyranny by (Tundra Books)
- Free as a Bird by (Dundurn Press)
- Fishtailing by (Coteau Books)
- Scars by (WestSide Books)
Children's Literature - Illustration
- Uirapurú: based on a Brazilian legend; illustrated by , text by (Oolichan Books)
- Owls See Clearly at Night: a Michif alphabet /Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: l'alfabet di Michif by (Simply Read Books)
- I Know Here; illustrated by , text by (Groundwood Books)
- Cat's Night Out; illustrated by , text by (Simon & Schuster)
- The Quiet Book; illustrated by , text by (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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 , 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
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
- When Stella was Very, Very Small by
- Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by
- Scaredy Squirrel at Night by
- The Imaginary Garden by
The nominees in the young adult/middle reader category are:
- Vanishing Girl by
- The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy by
- earthgirl by
- The Mealworm Diaries by
- The Awakening by
Last year's winners were Chester's Back! by in the children's picture book category, and in the young adult/middle reader category the winner was Libertad by .
Categories: Awards
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 is this year's winner.
The two honourable mentions are:
- Timmerman Was Here, illustrated by
- You're mean, Lily Jean, illustrated by
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 . 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
| < Newer - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 - Earlier > |
Loading...
