Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Lynn Popham - Thursday Apr 03 2008 11:19 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Awards, Authors, Winnipeg, Publishing News
Winnipeg writer Martha Brooks has won the Vicky Metcalf Award. The $15,000 national literary award honours Martha's entire body of work. The award was presented on Tuesday night in Toronto.
by Lynn Popham - Tuesday Oct 16 2007 10:17 am permalink Post a comment
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Winnipeg writer has won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for her book Kanada.
by Lynn Popham - Saturday Sep 08 2007 2:13 pm permalink Post a comment
Beloved children's author and essayist Madeleine L'Engle died on Thursday, September 6, 2007. Her Newbery Award winning novel A Wrinkle in Time, the first of the well known series The Time Quintet, has captivated young audiences since the 1960s. Publisher's Weekly
by Lynn Popham - Tuesday Sep 04 2007 6:30 pm permalink Post a comment
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Harper Collins Uk has announced that it will be the first major publisher to create personalized "print on demand" books for children.
Customers can pick one of three Noddy books and submit their child's specifics, including name, hair and eye colour; HarperCollins will create and print a specially personalized book for them.
While the phenomenon of the personalized book is not new (small independent publishers have been creating them for years), I do believe that HarperCollins is the first major publisher to jump on the bandwagon. They say that it is part of their "ongoing commitment to expanding the boundaries of traditional publishing". I'm not sure that I like the concept.
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