2014 CLA Book Award winners announced!

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. 

This award recognizes an illustrator of a noteworthy Canadian book, published in 2013, that appeals to children up to the age of 12 years.

 
Congratulations to the Winner:

* The Dark *

Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Written by Lemony Snicket
HarperCollins

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This notable award recognizes a Canadian author of an outstanding book published in Canada in 2013, which appeals to children up to and including age 12.

Congratulations to the Winner:

* Curse of the Dream Witch *

by Allan Stratton
Scholastic Canada

Reviewed here

Congratulations also to the two Honour Books selected:

 
Metro Dogs of Moscow
by Rachelle Delaney

Puffin Canada

 
Prince Puggly and the Kingdom of Spiff

by Robert Paul Weston
Puffin Canada

Reviewed here

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This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English-language Canadian work of fiction (novel, collection of short stories or graphic novel), published in 2013, that appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.

Congratulations to the Winner:

* Graffiti Knight *

by Karen Bass
Pajama Press

Reviewed here

Congratulations also to the only Honour Book selected:

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B 

by Teresa Toten

Doubleday Canada

Reviewed here

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