The 2016 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards Shortlists

The Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal are children's book awards presented by the CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the United Kingdom.  Shortlists and winners are selected by librarians who serve young readers.

To be eligible for the 2016 Awards titles must have been first published in the UK between September 1, 2014 and August 31,  2015.  Books first published in another country must have been co-published in the UK within three months of the original publication date.

The winning titles will be announced at an awards ceremony in June on their website here.

This year, there are no Canadian authors' books on the shortlist for the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Medal for the writer of an outstanding book for children.

However, among the eight nominated illustrators shortlisted for the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, two feature Canadian illustrators, Jon Klassen and Sydney Smith, whose books covers I've provided here.

Here is the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist for 2016

Anthony Browne (author/illustrator)
Willy's Stories
Walker Books

Ross Collins (author/illustrator)
Bear on My Chair
Nosy Crow

Oliver Jeffers (author/illustrator)
Once Upon an Alphabet
HarperCollins

Jon Klassen (illustrator)
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
Mac Barnett (text)
Walker Books









Jackie Morris (author/illustrator)
Something About a Bear
Frances Lincoln

Helen Oxenbury (illustrator)
Captain Jack and the Pirates
Puffin

Chris Riddell (illustrator)
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Bloomsbury

Sydney Smith (illustrator)
Footpath Flowers
JonArno Lawson (text)
Walker Books/Groundwood Books
  

2015 IBBY Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award winner 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 (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 2015

for the Illustrator of a Canadian children's book 

 goes to

Sydney Smith

for

Sidewalk Flowers

by JonArno Lawson

Illustrated by Sydney Smith

Groundwood Books

978-1-55498-431-2

32 pp.

Ages 4-7

2015

Congratulations also to Honour Books:

L’arbragan
Written and illustrated by Jacques Goldstyn
La Pastèque

Orca Chief
Illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers
Co-written with Robert Budd
Harbour Publishing

That Squeak
Illustrated by Francois Thisdale
Written by Carolyn Beck
Fitzhenry & Whiteside

2016 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals nominees announced

The Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal are children's book awards presented by the CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the United Kingdom.  Shortlists and winners are selected by librarians who serve young readers.

To be eligible for the 2016 Awards titles must have been first published in the UK between 1 September 1, 2014 and August 31,  2015.  Books first published in another country must have been co-published in the UK within three months of the original publication date.

The winning titles will be announced at an awards ceremony in June.

This year, there are two Canadian authors' books nominated for the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Medal for the writer of an outstanding book for children.  Congratulations to authors Susin Nielsen and Allan Stratton on their nominations!

We Are All Made of Molecules
by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books (Canada)
Andersen Press (U.K.)

The Dogs
by Allan Stratton
Scholastic Canada (Canada)
Andersen Press (U.K.)









Among the nominated illustrators for the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, there are two Canadian illustrators, Jon Klassen and Sydney Smith. Congratulations!

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Written by Mac Barnett
Walker Books (U.K.)

Footpath Flowers (Sidewalk Flowers in Canada)
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
Written by Jon Arno Lawson
Groundwood Books (Canada)
Walker Books (U.K.)

2015 Atlantic Book Awards: winners announced

In May, the winners of the 2015 Atlantic Book Awards were announced.  This culminating event concluded another year for the Atlantic Book Awards and Festival, organized by the Atlantic Book Awards Society.

To get more information about the Atlantic Canada Book Awards, go to http://www.atlanticbookawards.ca

Of the nine Atlantic Book Awards, only two are relevant to young readers this year:

• Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
• Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration

The nominees for these two 2014 Atlantic Book Awards were posted on CanLit for LittleCanadians on April 18, 2014.  Here are this year's winners.

                                                                                                                  

The winner of the 

ANN CONNOR BRIMER AWARD

 FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

The End of the Line

by Sharon E. McKay

Annick Press

                                                                                         

The winner of the

LILLIAN SHEPHERD AWARD 

FOR EXCELLENCE IN ILLUSTRATION

Music is for Everyone

Illustrated by Sydney Smith

Written by Jill Barber

Nimbus Publishing