Thursday 13 October 2016

2016 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards: Winners announced


The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are presented by the Independent Publisher and Jenkins Group to honour North America's best children’s books, authors and illustrators. These selections celebrate "youthful curiosity, discovery and learning through books and reading." In 38 categories (with an additional 4 Spirit Awards), these children's books represent the publishing efforts of main-stream publishers as well as small presses, and even those of self-publishers.

Today, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award winners were announced and we'd like to offer our congratulations to our Canadian authors, illustrators and publishers who were awarded Moonbeam Children's Book Awards for 2016. They include the following three awards:




Pre-teen Fiction: Fantasy

BRONZE
The Griffin of Darkwood
by Becky Citra
Coteau Books













Young Adult Fiction: Fantasy/Sci-Fi

SILVER 
Gatekeeper
by Natasha Deen
Great Plains Teen Fiction














Young Adult Fiction: Historical/Cultural

GOLD
Convictions
by Judith Silverthorne
Coteau Books










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