2014 USBBY Outstanding International Books

Each year, the United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) compiles its Outstanding International Books (OIB) List of books that, while published or distributed in the U.S., originated or were first published outside of the USA. These books are "deemed most outstanding of those published" in the previous year and, not surprisingly, a number of Canadian books have earned this honour.

Congratulations 

to the following Canadian books for young people 

for inclusion on

the 2014 USBBY Outstanding International Books List:

For GRADES PreK-2

Once Upon a Northern Night

by Jean E. Pendziwol
Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Groundwood/House of Anansi

Reviewed here

Picture a Tree

by Barbara Reid
Whitman

Out the Window

by Cybèle Young
Groundwood/House of Anansi

Reviewed here

For GRADES 6-8

Raziaʼs Ray of Hope: One Girlʼs Dream of an Education

by Elizabeth Suneby
Illustrated by Suana Verelst
Kids Can Press

Jane, the Fox and Me

by Fanny Britt

Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault

Translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou
Groundwood/House of Anansi

War Brothers: The Graphic Novel

by Sharon E. McKay
Illustrated by Daniel Lafrance
Annick Press
Reviewed here 

Branded by the Pink Triangle
by Ken Setterington

Second Story Press

Touched by Fire
by Irene N. Watts

Tundra Books