Last month, the Canadian Children's Book Centre, our nationally-renowned authority on all things related to youngCanLit, announced the finalists for the 2016 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards. (Press release
here.)
The eight major children's book awards, which will be awarded at two invitation-only galas in November, include:
- TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award ($30,000) Sponsored by TD Bank Group;
- Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse ($30,000) Sponsored by TD Bank Group;
- Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award ($20,000) Sponsored by A. Charles Baillie;
- Norma Fleck Award For Canadian Children's Non-Fiction ($10,000) Sponsored by the Fleck Family Foundation;
- Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People ($5,000) Sponsored by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Bilson Endowment Fund;
- John Spray Mystery Award ($5,000) Sponsored by John Spray of Mantis Investigation Agency;
- Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy ($5,000) Sponsored by HarperCollins Canada; and
- Amy Mathers Teen Book Award ($5,000) Sponsored by Amy Mathers' Marathon of Books
Here are the short lists for each award category, as announced by the Canadian Children's Book Centre:
TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
Missing Nimâmâ
by Melanie Florence
Illustrated by François Thisdale
Clockwise Press
Reviewed here
The Nest
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins
That Squeak
by Carolyn Beck
Illustrated by François Thisdale
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Reviewed here
The Wolf-Birds
by Willow Dawson
Owlkids Books
A Year of Borrowed Men
by Michelle Barker
Illustrated by Renné Benoit
Pajama Press
Reviewed here
Le Prix TD de littérature pour l'enfance et la jeunesse canadienne
L’arbragan
par Jacques Goldstyn
Éditions de la Pastèque
Aux toilettes
par André Marois
Illustré par Pierre Pratt
Éditions Druide
Camille
par Patrick Isabelle
Leméac Éditeur
L’épopée de Petit-Jules
par Maryse Rouy
Éditions Hurtubise
Le prisonnier sans frontières
par Jacques Goldstyn
Bayard Canada
Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
In a Cloud of Dust
by Alma Fullerton
Illustrated by Brian Deines
Pajama Press
Reviewed here
InvisiBill
by Maureen Fergus
Illustrated by Dušan Petričić
Tundra Books
Sidewalk Flowers
by JonArno Lawson
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
Groundwood Books
Reviewed here
Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox
by Danielle Daniel
Groundwood Books
Reviewed here
The Wolf-Birds
by Willow Dawson
Owlkids Books
Norma Fleck Award For Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
The Art of the Possible: An Everyday Guide to Politics
by Edward Keenan
Illustrated by Julie McLaughlin
Owlkids Books
A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars
by Maria Birmingham
Illustrated by Josh Holinaty
Owlkids Books
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War (
CitizenKid)
by Jessica Dee Humphreys and Michel Chikwanine
Illustrated by Claudia Dávila
Kids Can Press
Reviewed here
Foodprints: The Story of What We Eat
by Paula Ayer
Annick Press
Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You
by Cory Silverberg
Illustrated by Fiona Smyth
Seven Stories Press
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Avis Dolphin
by Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by Willow Dawson
Groundwood Books
The Farmerettes
by Gisela Tobien Sherman
Second Story Press
Mad Miss Mimic
by Sarah Henstra
Razorbill Canada
Reviewed here
Uncertain Soldier
by Karen Bass
Pajama Press
Reviewed here
The Unquiet Past (
Secrets)
by Kelley Armstrong
Orca Book Publishers
John Spray Mystery Award
The Blackthorn Key (
Blackthorn Key)
by Kevin Sands
Aladdin
The Case of the Missing Moonstone (
The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency)
by Jordan Stratford
Alfred A. Knopf
Reviewed here
Delusion Road
by Don Aker
HarperTrophy Canada
The Masked Truth
by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada
Masterminds
by Gordon Korman
HarperCollins Publishers
Reviewed here
Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy
Clover’s Luck (
Magical Animal Adoption Agency)
by Kallie George
Illustrated by Alexandra Bolder
HarperCollins Publishers
Reviewed here
The Nest
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Publishers
The Scorpion Rules (
Prisoners of Peace)
by Erin Bow
Margaret K. McElderry Books
A Thousand Nights
by E.K. Johnston
Disney-Hyperion
The Unquiet
by Mikaela Everett
Greenwillow Books
Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
5 to 1
by Holly Bodger
Alfred A. Knopf
The Scorpion Rules (
Prisoners of Peace)
by Erin Bow
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Trouble is a Friend of Mine
by Stephanie Tromly
Kathy Dawson Books
The Truth Commission
by Susan Juby
Razorbill Canada
Reviewed here
Young Man With Camera
by Emil Sher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Hosted by the Canadian Children's Book Centre and TD Bank Group, the TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards will celebrate great Canadian children's books and present the winners of the awards on the evenings of November 1, 2016 and November 17, 2016 in Montreal and Toronto, respectively.
