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Saskatoon's own Arthur Slade Wins TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for the Hunchback Assignments by Nicole Berard - Sunday, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:06pm

Congratulations are due for Saskatoon's Arthur Slade. On November 9, The Hunchback Assignments won the 2010 TD Canada Children's Literature Award, the children's literature equivalent of winning the Giller Prize.

Arthur Slade's steampunk thriller was selected from a stellar field of Canadian Children's Literature including Janet McNaughton's Dragon Seer, Sharon Jennings's Home Free, William Gilkerson's A Thousand Years of Pirates and Nancy Hartry's Watching Jimmy.

Arthur will be reading from the second book in his Hunchback Assignments Series, The Dark Deeps, at Saskatoon's Young Adult Author Extravaganza on November 25.

Categories: Awards, Authors, Saskatoon
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