2013 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award winners announced

On April 24th 2013, the Manitoba School Library Association announced the winners of the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) for 2013 from the nominees announced last June.

The 2013 winning title, as voted by young Manitoba readers of ages 10 to 14, is

Box of Shocks

by Chris McMahen

Orca Book Publishers

160 pp.
Ages 9-12
2011

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Congratulations to the readers' two Honour Books:

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

by Jonathan Auxier

Puffin Canada
381 pp.
Ages 10-13

2011

Undergrounders

by David Skuy
Scholastic Canada
194 pp.
Ages 11-14

2011

 

  CONGRATULATIONS

 to all Nominees and Winners 

and young readers in this literacy program 

2013 Saskatchewan Book Awards winners announced last night

 

Last night, the 20th Anniversary Saskatchewan Book Awards Gala was held at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina. All awards and short-lists for those awards which included youngCanLit nominees were posted here on April 5, 2013. Full details of the awards, nominees and winners can be read at the Saskatchewan Book Awards website here.

Congratulations to the youngCanLit winners of the following writing and publishing awards



2013 WRITING AWARDS

SaskEnergy: 

Young Adult Literature Award

Winner

40 Things I Want to Tell You

by Alice Kuipers

HarperCollins Canada

2013 PUBLISHING AWARDS

First Nations University of Canada: 

Aboriginal Peoples’ Publishing Award

Winner

The Diamond Willow Walking Stick: A Traditional Métis Story about Generosity

Story and Illustrations by Leah Marie Dorion

Michif Translation by Norman Fleury

Gabriel Dumont Institute Publishing

University of Regina Faculty of Education and Campion College: 

Award for Publishing in Education

Winner

Day of the Cyclone

by Penny Draper

Coteau Books

Rocky Mountain Book Award 2013 Winner announced!

Last November the nominees for the 2012-2013 Rocky Mountain Book Award were announced here.  From November to April, Alberta's students in Grades 4 through 7 were invited to read the twenty nominated fiction and non-fiction titles, selected from the previous two years publications.  Voting took place from mid-March to mid-April, and votes tabulated.

The winner of the 2013 Rocky Mountain Book Award, Gold Medal, is:

The Case of the Missing Deed

by Ellen Schwartz
Tundra Books
978-0-88776-959-7
189 pp.
Ages 8-12
2011

Reviewed here on November 14, 2011.

Voting results are posted at http://rmba.lethsd.ab.ca/

2013 B.C. Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence co-winners announced

One of the BC Book Prizes, the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, was just announced at the BC Book Prize Soirée on April 10, 2013. 

The Lieutenant Governor's Award recognizes British Columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary excellence in the province. The recipient receives a cash award of $5,000 and a commemorative certificate.

This year the co-recipients of the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence are

Lorna Crozier and Sarah Ellis

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 Special congratulations to youngCanLit author

Sarah Ellis 

who has contributed extensively to our wealth of children's literature.

A selection of her novels, anthologies and picture books include:

Fiction and Novels:

• Out of the Blue
• Pick up Sticks
• Next Door Neighbours
• The Baby Project
• Odd Man Out
• Back of Beyond
• The Several Lives of Orphan Jack

Dear Canada books

• A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Evy Weatherall
• Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford
• That Fatal Night: The Titanic Diary of Dorothy Wilton

Picture Books

• Big Ben
• Salmon Forest
• Ben Over Night
• The Queen's Feet

From humour and common fears and serious issues of mental health, Sarah Ellis has covered the gamut of themes in her books, providing life lessons of acceptance and compassion while managing to reassure her readers that no one is alone.

Congratulations to Sarah Ellis and Lorna Crozier, 

as well as the jurors on their exceptional 2013 selections!

IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver winner for 2012 announced

International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Canada, a non-profit volunteer organization that promotes quality French and English Canadian children's literature nationally and internationally, administers three National Awards and submits nominations for three International Awards, as follows:

IBBY NATIONAL AWARDS:

• Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award 

 given annually to an artist of outstanding artwork in a Canadian picture book

• Frances E. Russell Grant  

given in support of research for a publishable work (a book or a paper) on Canadian children’s literature

• Claude Aubry Award

given to an individual for distinguished service within the field of children’s literature

IBBY INTERNATIONAL AWARDS:

• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
• Hans Christian Andersen Awards
• IBBY Honour List
• IBBY Asahi Reading Promotion Award
• Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities

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IBBY Canada has just announced the  

winner of the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award from 2012

for the Illustrator of a Canadian children's book 

to

Isabelle Arsenault

for

Virginia Wolf

written by Kyo Maclear

Kids Can Press

978-1-55453-649-8
32 pp.
Ages 5-10
2012

 
Loosely based on writer Virginia Wolf and her sister Vanessa Bell, the story has Virginia awakening and feeling dark and reclusive, determined to shut out the world. It is only when her sister asks Virginia what she needs that Vanessa is successful in using her artistry (courtesy of the inimitable Isabelle Arsenault) to engage Virginia and brighten her mood. This enthralling story finds a way to depict depression in an optimistic yet natural manner, easily accessible to young readers and encouraging for those who suffer with depression.

Reviewed here on March 13, 2012

2013 Arthur Ellis Awards 2013 Nominees announced

For readers of crime, mystery, espionage and all manner of criminal doings, both fictional and factual, the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing are the awards to check out for the newest and the best. (A bit of trivia: The awards are named for the pseudonym of the Official Executioner for the Dominion of Canada from 1913-1935, which explains the appearance of the award as seen to the right.)  Awarded annually by the Crime Writers of Canada since 1984, the Arthur Ellis Awards include the following categories:

For Published Works:

• Best Crime Novel *
• Best First Crime Novel *
• Best Crime Book in French
• Best Crime Nonfiction
• Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book
• Best Crime Short Story

For Unpublished Work:

• The Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel *

*Awards for which prizes are provided

This year's shortlist of works from 2012 were announced last night at events in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa.  

Here are the nominees for the Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book:

Lisa Harrington
Live to Tell
Cormorant Books

Y. S. Lee
The Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel
Candlewick Press

Reviewed here 

Sylvia McNicoll
Crush Candy Corpse
James Lorimer & Company

 Reviewed here

Shane Peacock
Becoming Holmes
Tundra Books

Reviewed here

Elizabeth Stewart
The Lynching of Louie Sam
Annick Press

The awards will be presented at the Arthur Ellis Awards Banquet in Toronto on May 30, 2013. For more information about this year's awards, go to the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards

2013 Canadian Library Association Book Award winners announced today!

Cue the fanfare! Break out the bubbly! Exciting news is emanating from the Canadian Library Association. The announcements of winners of the CLA's annual book awards have just been released.  From extraordinary shortlists to outstanding winners, the selection committees have once again done their association proud. 

Congratulations to the Winner:

You are Stardust

Illustrated by Soyeon Kim

Written by Elin Kelsey

Owlkids Books

 

Press release announcement from CLA

Congratulations to the Winner:

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

by Susin Nielsen

Tundra Books

Reviewed here

Congratulations also to the two Honour Books selected:
 

A Tinfoil Sky

by Cyndi Sand-Eveland

Tundra Books

 

Reviewed here

The Grave Robber's Apprentice

by Allan Stratton

HarperCollins Canada

Reviewed here

Press release announcement from CLA

Congratulations to the Winner

My Book of Life by Angel

by Martine Leavitt

Groundwood Books/House of Anansi

Reviewed here

Congratulations also to the two Honour Books selected:

 

What Happened to Ivy

by Kathy Stinson

Second Story Press

 

 

 

 

40 Things I Want to Tell You

by Alice Kuipers

HarperCollins Canada

Reviewed here

 

 

 

 

 

Press release announcement from CLA

Hackmatack 2013/2014 nominees announced

Atlantic Canada's Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award program is just wrapping up for the 2012-2013 year but the nominees for the 2013-2014 Hackmatack Awards have already been announced.  During the next school year, young readers of ages 9 to 12 years in Atlantic Canada will have the opportunity to read from four lists of ten nominated titles: English Fiction, English Non-Fiction, French Fiction and French Non-Fiction.  Reading of these nominees will begin in September and run through until end of March, with voting taking place at the end of that period.  Although there is no rush to start reading, it's always wonderful to recognize these authors, illustrators and publishers for these nominations.  Congratulations and félicitations!

Here are the 2013-2014 Hackmatack Award shortlists:

2013-2014 English Fiction Shortlist

A Long Way From Home
by Alice Walsh
Second Story Press

And Nothing But the Truth
by Kit Pearson
HarperCollins

Binky Takes Charge
by Ashley Spires
Kids Can Press 

The Gargoyle at the Gates
by Philippa Dowding 
Dundurn

How to Fix a Lie
by Nancy Wilcox Richards
Scholastic Canada 

The Island Horse
by Susan Hughes
Kids Can Press

Jasper John Dooley: Star of the Week
by Caroline Adderson
Kids Can Press

Lower the Trap
by Jessica Scott Kerrin
Kids Can Press

That One Spooky Night
by Dan Bar-el
Kids Can Press

Time Flies When You're Chasing Spies: A Halifax Mystery
by Allison Maher
Nimbus Publishing
 
 








2013-2014 English Non-Fiction Shortlist

Canada at War: A Graphic History of World War II
by Paul Keery and Michael Wyatt
Douglas and McIntyre

Cryptic Canada:  Unsolved Mysteries from Coast to Coast
by Natalie Hyde
Owlkids Books

Driftwood Dragons and Other Seaside Poems 
by Tyne Brown
Nimbus Publishing

Going Up: Elisha Otis' Trip to the Top
by Monica Kulling
Tundra Books

Mimi's Village and How Basic Health Care Transformed It
by Katie Smith Milway
Kids Can Press

No Shelter Here: Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs
by Rob Laidlaw
Pajama Press

Potatoes on Rooftops: Farming in the City
by Hadley Dyer
Annick Press

Rescuing the Children:  The Story of the Kindertransport
by Deborah Hodge
Tundra Books

Sable Island: The Wandering Sandbar
by Wendy Kitts
Nimbus Publishing

The World in Your Lunchbox:  The Wacky History and Weird Science of Everyday Foods
by Claire Eamer
Annick Press

2013-2014 Roman français - Sélections

 
Le bateau fantôme de Petit-Rocher
par Denis C. Boucher
Francophonie



 




Cauchemar blanc pour Rouge-Babine
par Lili Chartrand
Courte échelle








L’enfant des neiges
par Elisabeth Vonarburg
Phoenix








Max et le sans-abri
par Olivier Challet
Boréal








Napoléon Ratté: l’empereur du ballon rond
par François Barcelo
Soulières






Opération Orange soufflée numéro 7
par Lyne Vanier
Pierre Tisseyre








Le secret des dragons
par Dominique Demers
Dominique et Compagnie





 


Si seulement...
par Mélanie Daigle
Phoenix








Le trésor de Zofia
par Mireille Villeneuve
Hurtubise









Le trésor du pharaon
par Louis Lymburner
Hurtubise











2013-2014 Documentaire français - Sélections

Glooscap, les castors et le mont Sugarloaf
par Réjean Roy
Bouton d’or Acadie









Les grands z’inventeurs
par Alain Raimbault
Soulières








Le Hockey
par Mario Allard
Les Malins

 






Les jaunes de Barcelone
par Karine Gottot et Maxim Cyr
Michel Quintin








Laisse-moi t’expliquer l’autisme
par Stéphanie Deslauriers
Midi trente






Léon et les traditions
par Annie Groovie
Courte échelle







Les limaces (Savais-tu?)
par Alain Bergeron, Michel Quintin et Sampar
Michel Quintin








Marie Curie (Connais-tu?)
par Johanne Ménard
Michel Quintin









La mouche
par Élise Gravel
Courte échelle








Schlick!: tout plein d’histoires avec des mots
par François Gravel
Québec Amérique