2013 Red Cedar Book Award Winners Announced

British Columbia children in Grades 4 through 7 have read and voted for their favourite titles among the Fiction nominees and Information Book nominees for 2012/2013. Yesterday the Red Cedar Awards announced the winners.  Here on CanLit for LittleCanadians I am pleased to announce the winners in each category.



For the Red Cedar Information Book Award, the winner is . . 

Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue From War

by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Pajama Press

Last AIrlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue From War

by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Pajama Press

978-0-9869495-1-7

99 pages

Ages 10-15

2011

Marsha Skrypuch tells the story of  eight-year-old Tuyet's harrowing escape from Saigon in 1975 and adoption by her new family in Brantford, Ontario.



For the Red Cedar Book Award for Fiction, the winner is . . .

Count Me In

by Sara Leach

 Orca Book Publishers

Count Me In
by Sara Leach
Orca Book Publishers
978-1-55469-404-4
176 pp.
Ages 9-12
2011

City-girl Tabitha must endure a weekend in the great outdoors with her extended family.  What begins as just an annoying, uncomfortable outing becomes a suspenseful adventure in survival.

Congratulations to both winning authors and their publishers!