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.