Sunday 29 July 2012

Hackmatack 2012/2013 Shortlists

Atlantic Canada's Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award program will soon see young readers of ages 9 to 12 years reading from four lists of ten nominated titles: English Fiction, English Non-Fiction, French Fiction and French Non-Fiction.  The shortlists for the 2012-2013 Hackmatack Awards were announced this spring, with reading scheduled to take place from September to March, followed by voting in February through March.


Here are the 2012-2013 Hackmatack Award shortlists:

2012-2013 English Fiction Shortlist
26 Tips For Surviving Grade 6
by Catherine Austen
James Lorimer and Company
2011






Addy's Race
by Debby Waldman
Orca Book Publishers
2011




Banjo of Destiny
by Cary Fagan
Groundwood Books
2011
Black Dog Dream Dog
by Michelle Superle
Tradewind Books
2010




Dalen and Gole: Scandal in Port Angus
by Mike Deas
Orca Book Publishers
2011




Deadly Voyage: RMS Titanic
by Hugh Brewster
Scholastic Canada
2011




Emily Finds a Dragon
by Paul Burns
Dragon Dreams Inc.
2011




Ghosts of the Pacific
by Philip Roy
Ronsdale Press
2011


The Magnificent Mario
by Mike Leonetti
North Winds Press
2011




Sinking Deeper: Or My Questionable (Possibly Heroic) Decision to Invent a Sea Monster
by Steve Vernon
Nimbus Publishing
2011





2012-2013 English Non-fiction Shortlist
50 Poisonous Questions
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Annick Press
2011




Adventures of a Trapper Boy
by Suzanne K. Edwards
General Store Publishing House
2011
Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science
by Larry Verstraete
Scholastic Canada Ltd
2011





Emily Included: A True Story
by Kathleen McDonnell
Second Story Press
2011





Explorers Who Made It...Or Died Trying
by Frieda Wishinsky
Scholastic Canada Ltd
2011


 


From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
by Christopher Moore
Tundra Books
2011





Off to Class
by Susan Hughes
Owlkids
2011







Selby the Lobster
by Don Downer
Cape Breton University Press
2011







Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes
by Ed Butts
Tundra Books
2010






Space Tourism
by Peter McMahon
Kids Can Press
2011





Sélections 2012-2013 - Roman français
La casquette de Simon
par Stéphane Laroche
Éditions de la Paix
2011




L’école des gars
par Maryse Peyskens
Dominique et Compagnie
2011




Il était une … dernière fois
par Richard Petit
Z’ailées
2011




Ma directrice est gentille mais… tellement toquée!
par Danielle Simard
FouLire
2011




Mardi, jour d’Halloween
par Danielle Simard
Soulières
2011




Morgan le chevalier sans peur
par Corinne De Vailly
Goélette
2011




Mystère au Mont Bleu
par Tina Landry
Francophonie
2010




Le mystère de Blandy-les-tours
par Arianne Gagnon-Roy
Francophonie
2011




Terreur sur la ligne d’acier
par Anne Bernard Lenoir
Courte échelle
2011




Les Zintrépides
par Alain M. Bergeron
Éditions Michel Quintin
2011







Sélections 2012-2013 - Documentaire français
Les avions : comment ça marche
par Catherine Girard-Audet
Les Malins
2011





Les Bleues de New York
par Maxim Cyr et Karine Gottot
Éditions Michel Quintin
2011


 

Les porcs-épics
par Alain M. Bergeron; Sampar and Michel Quintin
Éditions Michel Quintin, 2011




Dian Fossey
par Johanne Ménard
Éditions Michel Quintin
2011


 

Dominique Demers
par Christine Ouin
Goélette
2011




Laisse-moi t’expliquer la dyslexie
par Marianne Tremblay
Midi trente
2011




Léon et les inventions
par Annie Groovie
Courte échelle
2010


 

Marie Rollet : Mère de la Nouvelle-France
par Sonia K Laflamme
Isatis
2011


 

Le recyclage : comment ça marche
par Catherine Girard-Audet
Les Malins
2011


 

Samuel de Champlain
par Johanne Ménard
Éditions Michel Quintin
2011

Saturday 28 July 2012

Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic

At the end of June, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its two categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.  

These awards, presented annually in the categories of Adult and Young Adult speculative fiction, aim to recognize the novels or book-length collections of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants) of fantasy, with a cash award of $1000 (Can) and a Sunburst medallion. 

 

Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction, has been honoured with the naming of this award after her first novel, Sunburst, published in 1964 by Gold Medal.




The winners of the awards will be announced and presented in the fall in Toronto.  The majority of the nominees have been reviewed here at CanLit for LittleCanadians, and I urge you to read up on this great fantastic fiction before we are blessed with a new crop of exceptional speculative fiction from our Canadian YA writers.


 
Ultraviolet
by R. J. Anderson
Carolrhoda Lab
978-0-7613-7408-4
303 pp.
Ages 14+
2011 
 
All Good Children
by Catherine Austen
Orca Book Publishers
978-1-55469-824-0
300 pp.
Ages 14+
2011



The Summer of Permanent Wants
by Jamieson Findlay
Doubleday Canada
978-0-385-66928-3
241 pp.
Ages 10-14
2011


 
The Dead Kid Detective Agency
by Evan Munday
 ECW Press
987-1-55022-971-4
301 pp.
Ages 12-15
2011


 
Blood Red Road
by Moira Young
Doubleday Canada
978-0-385-67183-5
459 pp.
Ages 14+
2011

Thursday 5 July 2012

2012/2013 Red Cedar nominees announced

The Red Cedar Book Award (a.k.a. B.C.'s Young Readers' Choice Award) only recently announced its award winners for 2011/2012 but they promptly announced the two short-lists of nominated titles for the upcoming year, though not officially launched until November.  Readers in Grades 4 through 7 will have until next spring to read the books to prepare themselves for voting in April.  The winners are announced annually in May.

Here are the 2012/2013 short-lists for the Red Cedar Fiction and Information Book Awards:

 
Ice Storm
by Penny Draper
Coteau Books
2011

Racing Home
by Adele Dueck
Coteau Books
2011

That Boy Red
by Rachna Gilmore
Simon & Schuster
2011
To Stand on My Own: the Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937
by Barbara Howarth-Attard
Scholastic Canada
2010
 

Saving Arm Pit
by Natalie Hyde
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2011




 

Count Me In
by Sara Leach
Orca Books
2011

Exiles From the War: The War Guest Diary of Charlotte Mary Twiss, Guelph, Ontario 1940
by Jean Little
Scholastic Canada
2010


The Listening Tree
by Celia Barker Lottridge
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2010


Dragon Seer’s Gift
by Janet McNaughton
HarperCollins Canada
2011


Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer
by Bryan Perro
Random House Canada
2011


Nutz!
by Virginia Frances Schwartz
Tradewind Books
2011


Catboy
by Eric Walters
Orca Books
2011








Mathemagic!: Number Tricks
by Lynda Colgan
Illustrated by Jane Kurisu


Harness Horses, Bucking Broncos & Pit Ponies: A History of Horse Breeds
by Jeff Crosby and Shelley Ann Jackson
Tundra Books
2011
Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Pajama Press
2011


Spy, Spy Again: True Tales of Failed Espionage
by Tina Holdcroft
Annick Press
2011


Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World
by Susan Hughes
Owlkids
2011


The White Ballets: Swan Lake, Giselle, and La Bayadere
by Rajka Kupesic
Tundra Books
2011


The Sea Wolves: Living Wild in the Great Bear Rainforest
by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read
Orca Books
2010


Emily Included: A True Story
by Kathleen McDonnell
Second Story Press
2011


Hockey Trailblazers
by Nicole Mortillaro
Scholastic Canada
2011

Totally Human: Why We Look and Act the Way We Do
by Cynthia Pratt Nicholson
Illustrated by Dianne Eastman
Kids Can Press
2011


Highway of Heroes
by Kathy Stinson
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2010


Shannen and the Dream For a School
by Janet Wilson
Second Story Press
2011


Our Earth: How Kids are Saving the Planet
by Janet Wilson
Second Story Press
2010


Explorers Who Made It... Or Died Trying
by Frieda Wishinsky
Scholastic Canada
2011