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 .
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Barbara Reid delivers her most perfect story yet! A perfect snow has fallen, and first-grader Scott and fourth-grader Jim have been daydreaming the morning away, making plans, doodling sk...
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Marie-Louise Gay has gone back in time to answer the questions often asked by the children who read and love her Stella books. Where does Stella get her wild ideas? How big is Stella’s im...
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Much has been written about war and remembrance, but very little of it has been for young children. As questions come from a young grandchild, his grandpa talks about how, as a very young...
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Scaredy never sleeps -- sleep might mean bad dreams about dragons, ghosts, vampire bats and polka-dot monsters. Our wide-eyed hero has a plan: stay awake all night, every night. Between c...
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Theodora loved her grandfather's old garden. His new apartment's balcony is too windy and small for a garden. But what appears to be a drawback soon leads to a shared burst of creativity ...
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The third case in the compelling Boy Sherlock Holmes series is full of as many twists and turns as the backstreets of Victorian London. When a wealthy young girl vanishes as if by mag...
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An alcoholic mother, a distracted father, a best friend who spends all his time with his new "girlfriend," and three relentless schoolyard bullies: Prinny Murphy's past, present, and futu...
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Mealworms are small creatures that live in dark secret places. Jeremy is a bit like that when he leaves his home in rural Nova Scotia and moves to Toronto with his mother. Lots of things ...
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Book II in the Darkest Powers trilogy takes us deeper into a world where the supernatural intrudes on the everyday with riveting effect. If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably...
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