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October 11, 2011
A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk has been nominated for this
year’s
Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Text. (click Children’s Text tab)
Each year, the Governor General’s Literary Awards (the GGs)
honour the best in Canadian literature. This year is the 75th anniversary of the GGs.
Each GG winner receives $25,000 and a specially-bound copy
of their winning book. Non-winning finalists each receive $1,000. The publisher of each winning book
receives $3,000 to help promote the book.
October 15, 2011
Valerie Sherrard’s book,
The Glory Wind, won the 2011 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People is awarded annually to reward
excellence in the writing of an outstanding work of historical fiction for young readers, by a
Canadian author, published in the previous
calendar year. In 2008, the value of the prize was
increased from $1,000 to $5,000.
The award winner is decided by a jury selected by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. All books
written by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants are eligible for consideration.
September 15, 2011
The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill Maclean has been selected for the IBBY Honor List.
Every two years, each of IBBY’s 60+ global offices are invited to submit books for certain categories.
Canada’s office is allowed to submit one English text (including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc.),
one French text, one illustrated text,
and one French translation and one English translation. There is
no call to publishers to submit books, so it is up to the chairs of the office to select the book for
each category. Out of all the books published in Canada between 2008-2011,
The Nine Lives of Travis
Keating has been selected as the one English text IBBY Canada is allowed to submit.
“The Honour List diplomas are presented at the IBBY Congresses where the catalogue is introduced and
the books are shown for the first time. Thereafter seven parallel sets of the books circulate around
the world at exhibitions during conferences and book fairs. Permanent collections of the IBBY Honour
List books are kept at the International Youth Library in Munich, the Swiss Institute for Child and
Youth Media in Zurich, Bibiana Research Collection in Bratislava, at IBBY in Tokyo and Northwestern
University Library at Evanston, Illinois.”
For more information and previous lists you can visit:
www.ibby.org/index.php?id=270.
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July 17:
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Kiss Me! (I’m a Prince!)
has just been nominated for the Amelia Bloomer List. It’s an annual
booklist of the best feminist books for young readers, ages birth
through 18. They’re affiliated with the American Library
Association. You can read more about the list and the nominees at
ameliabloomer.wordpress.com |
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