2015 CBC Bookies: Winners selected and announced!

The 2015 winners of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Bookie Awards, based on readers' choices, have been announced, including of course the two relevant youngCanLit categories.

From the 5 nominated titles in the YOUNG ADULT category:

readers selected the winner as:

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

Groundwood Books

978-1-55498-152-6

320 pp.

Ages 14+

2014

From the 5 nominated titles in the CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK category:

readers selected as the winner:

 

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

by Christine Baldacchino

Illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant
Groundwood Books
978-1-55498-347-6
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
2014

CBC Bookie Awards 2015: Votes in by Feb. 23!

Well, the CBC Bookies are in a hurry this year, and I'm behind in letting readers of youngCanLit know of the opportunity to vote.  But there's still time!

In 2011, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) introduced the CBC Bookie Awards as an opportunity for readers to choose their favourite Canadian reads published the previous year.  Based on the selections of the well-read  CBC personnel from CBC Books, Canada Reads, Writers & Company, The Next Chapter, as well as recommendations from the public, five titles in each of eleven categories are nominated.  Readers may cast their votes online (only once per category per day). 

The eleven categories, which include two international ones, for which books are nominated are:

1. Literary Fiction
2. Non-Fiction
3. Poetry
4. Thriller, Horror, Mystery or Crime
5. Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction
6. Young Adult
7. Short Story Collection
8. Children's Illustrated Book
9. Graphic Novel or Memoir
10. International Fiction
11. International Non-Fiction

This year's CBC Bookies Awards nominees were announced February 12, 2015 with voting taking place online before 11:59 p.m. ET of Monday, February 23, 2015. 

The two categories relevant to CanLit for LittleCanadians are the Young Adult and Children's Picture Book categories.  The finalists for this category are:

YOUNG ADULT

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK

Use this CBC Bookies link to cast your vote(s) for your favourites but only until the end of February 23, 2015.

2014 CBC Bookie Awards winners announced

In 2011, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) introduced the CBC Bookie Awards as an opportunity for readers to choose their favourite Canadian reads published the previous year.  Based on the selections of the well-read CBC personnel from CBC Books, Canada Reads, Writers & Company, The Next Chapter, as well as recommendations from the public, five titles in each of ten categories are nominated.  Readers then have several weeks to cast their votes online (only once per category per day).  Winners are identified some time in February.

Here's this year's big news:

in the Young Adult category, 

whose nominees were announced in January 

(here on CanLit for LittleCanadians), 

the winner 

(as selected by readers online) 

with 43.55% of the votes

is

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

by Teresa Toten

Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada

978-0-385678346

255 pp.

Ages 14+

2013

Reviewed here in August 

 

to 

 

Teresa Toten 

and her book

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

CBC Bookie Awards 2012

In 2011, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) introduced the CBC Bookie Awards as an opportunity for readers to choose their favourite Canadian reads published the previous year.  Based on the selections of the well-read CBC personnel from CBC Books, Canada Reads, Writers & Company, The Next Chapter, as well as recommendations from the public, five titles in each of ten categories are nominated.  Readers then have several weeks to cast their votes online (only once per category per day).  Winners are announced the following week, in April.

The ten categories, which include two international ones, for which books are nominated are:

• Literary Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Thriller, Mystery or Crime
• Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction
• Young Adult
• Graphic Novel or Comic Book
• Short Story Collection
• International Fiction
• International Non-Fiction

This year's CBC Bookies Awards nominees were announced March 8, 2012 with voting taking place online before 11:59 p.m. ET of Saturday, March 31.  The winners will be announced at a CBC Twitter Chat (#CanLit) on Thursday, April 5.

The one category relevant to CanLit for LittleCanadians is the Young Adult category.  The finalists for this category are:

Blink and Caution

by Tim Wynne-Jones
Candlewick Press

The Gathering

by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada

No Ordinary Day

by Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books

This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada

Tilt

by Alan Cumyn
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press

Use this CBC Bookies link to cast your vote(s) for your favourites in the Young Adult category, but only until the end of March 31, 2012.  (The ballot below is as it appears on the CBC Bookies website)

Retrieved from the CBC Bookies website on March 9, 2012.