Libris Awards 2012 nominees and winners

Each year, the Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) presents the Libris Awards, twelve awards for which each has a shortlist of 3 nominees selected and announced in the spring.  Members of the Canadian Booksellers Association submit their ballots in April for the announcement of the winners in June.

The twelve CBA Libris Award categories, which all include a component related to the bookselling industry, include:

• Author of the Year
• Fiction Book of the Year
• Non-Fiction Book of the Year
• Campus Bookseller of the Year
• Bookseller of the Year
• Editor of the Year
• Sales Rep of the Year (n.b. the qualifying region rotates between BC, the Prairies, Central Canada and the Atlantic provinces)
• Distributor of the Year
• Small Press Publisher of the Year
• Publisher of the Year
• Children's Picture Book of the Year
• Young Readers' Book of the Year

Here are the nominees for the two awards specific to younger readers:

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK of the Year NOMINEES

For a Canadian picture book from the previous year whose imaginative storyline and creative visuals engaged, entertained and delighted young children while generating customer attention and strong sales.

I Want My Hat Back 

by Jon Klassen

Candlewick/Random House

 

Picture a Tree 

by Barbara Reid

Scholastic Canada

Ten Birds  

by Cybèle Young 

Kids Can Press

YOUNG READERS' Book of the Year NOMINEES
For an outstanding Canadian literary work for young readers in the previous year that combines readability with strong sales—a book that captivated its intended reading audience with skillful, inventive and gripping storytelling.

Deadly Voyage: RMS Titanic, Jamie Laidlaw, Crossing the Atlantic, 1912

by Hugh Brewster

Scholastic Canada

This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

by Kenneth Oppel

HarperCollins Canada  

The Dragon Turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 5th Case

by Shane Peacock

Tundra Books

More information about these awards can be found at the Canadian Booksellers Association website

Tonight, the Canadian Booksellers Association held their awards gala in Toronto and announced the winners of the 2012 Libris Awards.  The winners in the two categories relevant to young readers are posted below.

 WINNER:  Children's Picture Book of the Year 2012

Picture a Tree

by Barbara Reid

 Scholastic Canada

978-1-4431-0761-7

32 pp.

Ages 3-8

2011

If you can picture a tree, from season to season, in different landscapes, and see the magic within, then Barbara Reid has created it in her colourful plasticene artwork.

 WINNER:  Young Readers' Book of the Year 2012

This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

by Kenneth Oppel

HarperCollins Canada
978-1-55468-339-0
298 pp.
Ages 12+

2011

When sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein's  twin brother Konrad falls deathly ill, Victor is relentless in his pursuing an alchemical cure, inspired by the discovery of a Dark Library (Biblioteka Obscura), beneath Chateau Frankenstein.  Though prohibited from doing so, Victor solicits the expertise of a censured apothecary/alchemist, Julius Polidori.