2015 Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature awarded

The prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature, an annual $20,000 prize awarded to an outstanding author of a body of work in children's literature, was presented November 3, 2015 at the Writers' Trust Awards event at the Glen Gould Studio in Toronto.

The Writers' Trust Awards honoured writers in six categories:

• Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
• Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
• Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award
• Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
• Writers’ Trust Distinguished Contribution Award, and
• Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.

Administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada since 2002 and sponsored by the Metcalf Foundation, the Vicky Metcalf Award is the only one of the six that goes to a writer of children's literature.

Now I'm pleased to announce that

the 2015 winner 

of the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People

is

Jan Thornhill

whose non-fiction repertoire has entertained and educated children for almost thirty years.  Among her finest books are the following award-winning and -nominated titles, including her two most recent which I've reviewed on CanLit for LittleCanadians:

Kyle Goes Alone 
Owlkids
2015
Reviewed here

Winter’s Coming: A Story of Seasonal Change

Owlkids

2014

Reviewed here

Is This Panama? A Migration Story
Owlkids
2013

Who Wants Pizza?: The Kids' Guide to the History, Science and Culture of Food

Maple Tree Press
2010

This is My Planet: The Kids' Guide to Global Warming
Maple Tree Press
2007

I Found a Dead Bird: A Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life and Death
Maple Tree Press
2006

Over in the Meadow 
Maple Tree Press
2004

The Rumor: A Jakata Tale from India
Owlkids
2005

Before & After: A Book of Nature Timescapes
National Geographic Children's Books
1997

Wild in the City 
Maple Tree Press
1995

Folktails: Animal Legends From Around the World
Maple Tree Press
1993

A Tree in the Forest 
Maple Tree Press
1991

The Wildlife 123: A Nature Counting Book
Owlkids
2012

The Wildlife ABC: A Nature Alphabet Book
Owlkids
2012

Check out Jan Thornhill's website at http://www.janthornhill.com  to read more about her books, life and other details.