'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!
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