2014 Hackmatack award winners announced

Readers 9 to 12 years of age and living in Atlantic Canada who participated in the annual Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award literary program have made their selections.  The  winners of the 2014 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award were announced in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on May 30, 2014.  Here is the press release.

Hearty congratulations to the winners in the four categories:

ENGLISH  FICTION 

Ashley Spires

Binky Takes Charge

Kids Can Press
2012

  

 ENGLISH  NON-FICTION

Rob Laidlaw

No Shelter Here: Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs

Pajama Press

2011

ROMAN  FRANÇAIS

  
Dominique Demers

Les Secrets des Dragons

Dominique et Compagnie

2012

DOCUMENTAIRE  FRANÇAIS

Elise Gravel

La Mouche

Archambault
2012

 Congratulations and Félicitations 

2013/2014 B.C.'s Teen Readers' Choice (Stellar) Award nominees

From last November to this April, BC teens (ages 13-19) have been reading, reviewing and discussing their reading at school and public libraries, all with the aim of selecting a winner of the Stellar Book Award. The Stellar Award is British Columbia's Teen Readers' Choice Award, and somehow I missed posting the nominees when they came out last year.  As teens are currently voting until July 31, I thought I might as well post this list of nominees, ready for the announcement of the winner in August. 

Here are the nominees for the 2013/2014 Stellar Book Award:

40 Things I Want To Tell You
by Alice Kuipers
HarperCollins Canada

The Calling
by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada

Getting Over Garrett Delaney
by Abby MacDonald
Candlewick Press

Hemlock
by Kathleen Peacock
Katherine Teegen Books

I, Witness
by Norah McClintock
Illustrated by Mike Deas
Orca Book Publishers

The Opposite of Tidy
by Carrie Mac
Razorbill

The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls
by John Lekich
Orca Book Publishers

Rebel Heart
by Moira Young
Doubleday Canada

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books

Running on Empty
by Don Aker
HarperCollins Canada
 

Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman
Doubleday Canada

Such Wicked Intent
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada

Three Little Words
by Sarah N. Harvey
Orca Book Publishers




On August 5, 2014 the winner of the Stellar Book Award will be announced.

IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver winner from 2013

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 (as well as submitting nominations for three International Awards) including the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award which is given annually to an artist of outstanding artwork in a Canadian picture book.

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This year

 the winner of the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award 
from 2013

for the Illustrator of a Canadian children's book 

 goes to

Julie Morstad

for

How To

Simply Read Books
978-1897476574
36 pp.
Ages 4-6
2013

 

Congratulations also to Honour Books

Wild Berries
by Julie Flett
Simply Read Books

The Man with the Violin

by Kathy Stinson

Illustrated by Dušan Petričić
Groundwood Books

The 2013 Willow Award winners announced today

 

The winners of the Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice (SYRCA) awards, the Willow Awards, were announced today at the Lyric Theatre in Swift Current.  From the nominees announced last March, young readers have voted for their favourites and the results tallied.

Congratulations 

to the 

winners 

of 2013 SaskEnergy Young Readers' Choice Awards!

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The winner of this year's

for those books written for youngest readers (K to Grade 3)

is

Kate and Pippin: An Unlikely Love Story 

by Martin Springett

Illustrated by Isobel Springett 

Puffin Canada

2012

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The winner of this year's

for those books written for readers of Grades 4 to 6

is

Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes
by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin
2011

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The winner of this year's

for those books written for readers in Grades 7 to 9

is

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

by Susin Nielsen

Tundra

2012
  

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Well done, young readers of Saskatchewan, 
on your wonderful selections!  

2014 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Nominees

A new list of reading choices for Manitoba's young readers comes courtesy of the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) program which presents 15 to 18 Canadian novels written in English for the targeted young readers.  Those young people who have read or heard a minimum of 3 nominated titles vote for their favourite title in April.  The winning title and honour books are announced in May and celebrated at an awards ceremony in October.

This is the shortlist of nominated titles for the 2014 MYRCA.  Congratulations to the authors and publishers of these seventeen nominees for their inclusion on this comprehensive list.

Circle of Cranes 
by Annette LeBox
Penguin Canada

Crush. Candy. Corpse. 
by Sylvia McNicoll
Lorimer

The Graverobber’s Apprentice 
by Allan Stratton
HarperCollins Canada

Guilty 
by Norah McClintock
Orca Book Publishers

The Lynching of Louie Sam 
by Elizabeth Stewart
Annick Press

Making Bombs for Hitler 
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Scholastic Canada

Margaret and the Moth Tree 
by Brit Trogen and Kari Trogen
Kids Can Press

Middle of Nowhere 
by Caroline Adderson
Groundwood Books

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny – Detectives Extraordinaire 
by Polly Hovarth
Random House

My Name is Parvana 
by Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books

The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls 
by John Lekich
Orca Book Publishers

Redcoats and Renegades 
by Barry McDivitt
Orca Book Publishers

Seraphina 
by Rachel Hartman
Random House

Small Medium at Large 
by Joanne Levy
Penguin Canada

Such Wicked Intent 
by Kenneth Oppel
Simon and Schuster

Ungifted 
by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada

Yesterday’s Dead 
by Pat Bourke
Second Story Press