IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver winner for 2012 announced

International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Canada, a non-profit volunteer organization that promotes quality French and English Canadian children's literature nationally and internationally, administers three National Awards and submits nominations for three International Awards, as follows:

IBBY NATIONAL AWARDS:

• Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award 

 given annually to an artist of outstanding artwork in a Canadian picture book

• Frances E. Russell Grant  

given in support of research for a publishable work (a book or a paper) on Canadian children’s literature

• Claude Aubry Award

given to an individual for distinguished service within the field of children’s literature

IBBY INTERNATIONAL AWARDS:

• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
• Hans Christian Andersen Awards
• IBBY Honour List
• IBBY Asahi Reading Promotion Award
• Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities

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IBBY Canada has just announced the  

winner of the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award from 2012

for the Illustrator of a Canadian children's book 

to

Isabelle Arsenault

for

Virginia Wolf

written by Kyo Maclear

Kids Can Press

978-1-55453-649-8
32 pp.
Ages 5-10
2012

 
Loosely based on writer Virginia Wolf and her sister Vanessa Bell, the story has Virginia awakening and feeling dark and reclusive, determined to shut out the world. It is only when her sister asks Virginia what she needs that Vanessa is successful in using her artistry (courtesy of the inimitable Isabelle Arsenault) to engage Virginia and brighten her mood. This enthralling story finds a way to depict depression in an optimistic yet natural manner, easily accessible to young readers and encouraging for those who suffer with depression.

Reviewed here on March 13, 2012

2012 Information Book Award finalists and winner

The Children's Literature Roundtable is a group of authors, editors, publishers, parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers and readers who come together to talk, promote, and enjoy children's literature.  First started in 1977 in Edmonton, the Canadian Children's Literature Roundtables have chapters in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Fredericton, Saint John, Winnipeg, Lethbridge, Grand Prairie and Kamloops. 

First presented in 1987, the Information Book Award is a children's non-fiction award, presented by the Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada and administered by its Vancouver chapter, for an English non-fiction book that, 

"arouses interest, stimulates curiosity, captures the imagination, and fosters concern for the world around us"

 (from http://eclr.ca/awards.html)

The following 5 finalists for the 2012 Information Book Award were announced in October:

Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan
by Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter
Annick Press

Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by Nature
by Dora Lee
Illustrations by Margot Thompson
Kids Can Press

Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone
by Kathleen Martin
Red Deer Press

Loon
by Susan Vande Griek
Illustrated by Karen Reczuch
Groundwood Books

A Walk on the Tundra
by Rebecca Hainnu and Anna Ziegler
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Inhabit Media








The winning title was presented on February 23, 2013 at the Vancouver Childrenʼs Literature Breakfast Event featuring author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers.

The winner of the 2012 Information Book Award

Loon

by Susan Vande Griek with illustrations by Karen Reczuch
from Groundwood Books

Selected Honor Books for this award are:
 

Beyond Bullets                                      Biomimicry

A Photo Journal of Afghanistan          Inventions Inspired by Nature

by Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter     by Dora Lee 

Annick Press                                          Illus. by Margot Thompson

                                                               Kids Can Press

Ottawa Book Awards: 2012 English Fiction winner

Ottawa Book Awards / Prix du livre d’Ottawa

The Ottawa Book Awards/Prix du livre d’Ottawa recognize the top English and French books published in the previous year. Both awards have separate categories for fiction and non-fiction. All shortlisted finalists receive $1,000 and each winner receives a prize of $7,500.

The finalists for the 2012 awards were announced in late September and the winners presented by Mayor Watson at a ceremony hosted by Charlotte Gray, award-winning biographer and historian, and Martin Vanasse, Cultural Reporter with Radio-Canada on October 24, 2012 at the Shenkman Arts Centre.

For more information, including the complete list of finalists, visit the new Ottawa Book Awards/Prix du livre d’Ottawa website at www.ottawabookawards.ca.

The English Fiction category is awarded to an outstanding published work of fiction including novels, short stories, children’s literature and poetry published in the previous year.   In the English Fiction category, two of the five nominees were books for young adults. They were

• Tilt
by Alan Cumyn
Groundwood Books








• The Summer of Permanent Wants 
by Jamieson Findlay
Doubleday Canada








The other nominees for this award were:

• Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay (McClelland & Stewart)
• REQUIEM by Frances Itani (HarperCollins Publishers) 
• Err by Shane Rhodes (Nightwood Editions)

Congratulations to the winner of this award:

The Summer of Permanent Wants

by Jamieson Findlay

Doubleday Canada

978-0-385-66928-3

241 pp.

Ages 10-14

2011

"After losing her powers of speech due to a mysterious illness, eleven-year-old Emmeline joins her Gran on a journey along the Rideau Canal system in a boat (Permanent Wants) that is also a bookstore. Picardy Bob, Consolata LeGrand and a carnival of other characters appear around every bend in this poignant ode to the redemptive powers of story-telling."

Description from the Ottawa Book Awards website 

2012 TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards: Winners Announced!

Last night, the Canadian Children's Book Centre and TD Bank Group presented the 2012 TD CANADIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AWARDS at the Ritz-Carlton in Toronto. A spectacular reception preceded the awards ceremony at which six awards were presented. (Le Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse was presented earlier in Montreal.)
 

Hosted by CBC's Garvia Bailey, the program began with addresses by Tim Hockey, President and CEO of TD Canada Trust and Todd Kylie, President, Board of Directors of the Canadian Children's Book Centre.

The selection for this year's TD Grade One Book Giveaway, a free book for all Canadian Grade 1 students, was announced to be I've Lost My Cat by author and illustrator Philippe Beha who delighted the audience with his anecdotes about his book.

Congratulations to the following winners of these auspicious children's book awards. 

TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

• $30,000 Award
• Sponsored by TD Bank Group
• Presented by Tim Hockey, President and CEO of TD Canada Trust

   Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse 

• $25,000 Award
• Sponsored by TD Bank Group

     Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award     

• $20,000 Award
• Sponsored by A. Charles Baillie
• Presented by Marilyn Baillie

Norma Fleck Award For Canadian Children's Non-Fiction

• $10,000 Award
• Sponsored by the Fleck Family Foundation
• Presented by Quinn Fleck and David Fleck

 

Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

• $5,000 Award
• Sponsored by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Bilson Endowment Fund
• Presented by  Todd Kylie

John Spray Mystery Award

• $5,000 Award 
• Sponsored by John Spray, President, Mantis Investigation Agency
• Presented by John Spray

Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy

• $5,000 Award  
• Sponsored by HarperCollins Canada
• Presented by Adrienne Hughes

Everything from the hors-d'oeuvres, drink, dinner, company, presentations, champagne, desserts, company, chatting, awards, company, was phenomenal.  Some of the authors and/or illustrators in attendance included: Janet Wilson, Kenneth Oppel, Marina Cohen, Sylvia McNicoll, Gillian Chan, Rebecca Bender, Richard Scrimger, Kevin Sylvester, Natalie Hyde, Hélène Boudreau, Shane Peacock, Susan Hughes, Catherine Rondina, Mahtab Narsimhan, Hugh Brewster, Nancy Hartry, Lesley Livingston, Adrienne Kress, Cheryl Rainfield, Rona Arato, Nancy Runstedler, Deborah Ellis, Dave Whamond, P.J. Sarah Collins, Vikki VanSickle, Cary Fagan, Geneviève Côté, Philippe Beha, Trilby Kent, Deborah Kerbel, Rob Mills, Karen Reczuch, Susan Vande Griek, Frieda Wishinsky, Barbara Reid, Kate Cayley, Andrea Beck, Jo Ellen Bogart, Jean Little - and that small fraction includes only those with whom I spoke, recognized, or remembered.  With 400 persons in attendance, including publishers, publicists, editors, book sellers, literacy specialists and children's lit advocates, the TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards Celebration is an event rich in literati, appreciation, words, camaraderie, and encouragement.  

Thanks to the TD Bank Group and the Canadian Children's Book Centre for hosting such a wonderful Canadian event.

2012 Hamilton Literary Awards: True Blue wins

On the evening of November 12, 2012, the Hamilton Arts Council announced the winners of its 19th annual Hamilton Literary Awards, at Theatre Aquarius' Norman and Louise Haac Studio.  The following seven awards were presented:

• The Bookworm Award for FICTION BOOK
  
• Judy Marsales Real Estate Brokerage Award for NON-FICTION BOOK
  
• Bryan Prince Bookseller Award for POETRY BOOK
  
• Reliable Life Insurance Award for CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT BOOK
  
• Line Art Consulting Award for SHORT ARTICLE
  
• Epic Books Award for SHORT STORY
  
• Seraphim Editions Award for INDIVIDUAL POEM
  

The nominees for the Reliable Life Insurance Award for Children and Young Adult Book included the following authors and titles: 

Jean Rae Baxter for
Broken Trail
(Ronsdale Press, 2011)

Deborah Ellis for  

True Blue  

(Pajama Press, 2011)

 
Estelle Salata for  
Tori's Happy Journal
(Starburst Digital Rights International, 2011)
 







Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch for  
Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War
(Pajama Press, 2011)






The winner of the Reliable Life Insurance Award for Children and Young Adult Book is

Deborah Ellis

for

True Blue

Pajama Press

978-0-9869495-0-0

229 pp.

Ages 11-14

2011

 

Reviewed here at CanLitforLittleCanadians on October 31, 2011

Congratulations 

to all worthy nominees and winner 

of the Children and Young Adult Hamilton Literary Award

Governor General's Literary Awards 2012 Winners

Yesterday, the Canada Council for the Arts announced the winners of the prestigious Governor General Literary Awards for 2012  including those in the two (English) Children's categories.

Congratulations to all the award winners and nominees for being recognized for their contributions to enriching our collection of phenomenal youngCanLit.

This year's winners in the two (English) Children's categories are: 

For Children’s Text:

Susin Nielsen
for  
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
 

 

Tundra Books
978-1-77049-372-8
243 pp.
Ages 11-14
2012 

Reviewed here on CanLit for LittleCanadians just days ago!

For Children’s Illustration:

Isabelle Arsenault
for

Virginia Wolf

Text by Kyo Maclear

Kids Can Press
978-1-55453-649-8
32 pp.
Ages 5-10
2012

Reviewed here on CanLit for LittleCanadians on March 13, 2012. 

Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature: 2012

Created in 1963, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature was create to encourage writing for Canadian children.  Vicky Metcalf was passionate about storytelling, a published children's author herself, and the Metcalf Foundation's goal focused on building a "just, healthy and creative society." Administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada since 2002, the $20,000 prize is awarded to an outstanding author of a body of work in children's literature.

This year, sponsored by the Metcalf Foundation and judged by a jury composed of Deirdre Baker, Ronald Jobe, and Joanne Schwartz, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature was awarded on November 7, 2012 at the Writers' Trust Awards event which was emceed by Shelagh Rogers, host of CBC Radio One’s The Next Chapter.

The 2012 winner of 

the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature 

is  

Paul Yee

Born in Saskatchewan, grew up and studied in British Columbia, and now living in Toronto, Paul Yee's Chinese background and studies in Canadian History have provided him with the foundation for many (but not all) of his stories. His rich body of work has earned him the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature, the Sheila A. Egoff Prize, the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Some of his award-winning children and young adult books include:

The Secret Keepers
Tradewind Books
133 pp.
Ages 12-15
2011

Blood and Iron: Building the Railway, Lee Heen-gwong, British Columbia, 1882
(I Am Canada series)
Scholastic Canada
234 pp.
Ages 10-15
2010

The Bone Collector's Son
Tradewind Books
175 pp.
Ages 10-14
2003

Ghost Train
Illustrated by Harvey Chan
Groundwood Books
32 pp.
Ages 8-12
1996

Money Boy
Groundwood Books
184 pp.
Ages 12+
2011

Roses Sing on New Snow: A Delicious Tale
Illustrated by Harvey Chan
Groundwood Books
32 pp.
Ages 5-8
1990

Shu-Li and Tamara
Illustrated by Shaoli Wang
Tradewind Books
71 pp.
Ages 7-9
2007

Tales from Gold Mountain
Illustrated by Simon Ng
Douglas & McIntyre
64 pp.
Ages 12+
1989




 
Check out Paul Yee's website at  www.paulyee.ca to read more details about his life and stories, and the full citation for this award at the Canadian Children's Book Centre.