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Thursday, 17 October 2019

Yellow Cedar, Red Maple and White Pine: 2020 Forest of Reading® Nominated Titles

Here are this year's nominated titles for the 2020 Yellow Cedar, Red Maple and White Pine Awards of the Forest of Reading. (n.b. The new Yellow Cedar is a list of non-fiction titles for Grades 4-8, essentially non-fiction for Silver Birch and Red Maple readers.)

(A full description of all programs is available at https://canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2019/10/2020-forest-of-reading-nominated-titles.html)

YELLOW CEDAR

Be Prepared! The Frankie MacDonald Guide to Life, the Weather, and Everything
Written by Frankie MacDonald & Sarah Sawler
Nimbus Publishing Limited

The Superpower Field Guide to Beavers
Written By Rachel Poliquin
Illustrated by Nicholas John Frith
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Extreme Abilities: Amazing Human Feats and the Simple Science Behind Them
Written by Galadriel Watson
Illustrated by Cornelia Li
Annick Press

Follow Your Stuff: What Makes It, Where Does It Come From, How Does It Get To You?
Written by Kevin Sylvester and Michael Hlinka
llustrated by Kevin Sylvester
Annick Press

Hayley Wickenheiser: Amazing Hockey Stories
Written by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Illustrated by D. A. Bishop
Scholastic Canada

Highrise: The Towers in the World and The World in the Towers
Written by Katerina Cizek
Adapted by Kristy Woudstra
Firefly Books

Hubots: Real-World Robots Inspired by Humans
Written by Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Alex Ries
Kids Can Press

Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History
Written by Allison Matthews-David and Serah-Marie McMahon
Illustrated by Gillian Wilson
Owlkids Books

My River: Cleaning Up the LaHave River
Written by Stella Bowles and Anne Laurel Carter
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Reviewed here

Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family
Written by Van Ho and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Pajama Press
Reviewed here

RED MAPLE™\

Call of the Wraith (The Blackthorn Key, Book 4)
Written by Kevin Sands
Aladdin

Crush
Written and illustrated by Svetlana Chmakova
Yen Press

A Grain of Rice
Written by Nhung Tran-Davies
Tradewind Books

In the Key of Nira Ghani
Written by Natasha Deen
Running Kids Press

The Light Between Worlds
Written by Laura E. Weymouth
HarperTeen

No Fixed Address
Written by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books

Operatic
Written by Kyo Maclear, Illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiller
Groundwood Books
Reviewed here

Stowaway
Written by Pam Withers
Dundurn Press

Surviving the City
Written by Tasha Spillet
Illustrated by Natasha Donovan
Highwater Press
Reviewed here

The Unteachables
Written by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
Reviewed here

WHITE PINE™

All Our Broken Pieces
Written by L.D. Crichton
Disney-Hyperion

Baggage
Written by Wendy Phillips
Coteau Books

The Beauty of the Moment
Written by Tanaz Bhathena
Penguin Random House Canada
Reviewed here

Comics Will Break Your Heart
Written by Faith Erin Hicks
Roaring Book Press

Crown of Feathers
Written by Nicki Pau Preto
Simon & Schuster

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
Written by Ben Philippe
HarperCollins Canada

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
Written by Sabina Khan
Scholastic Press
Reviewed here

Sadie
Written by Courtney Summers
Wednesday Books/Raincoast Books
Reviewed here

Synchro Boy
Written by Shannon McFerran
Arsenal Pulp Press

We Contain Multitudes
Written by Sarah Henstra
Penguin Teen Canada
Reviewed here

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Nominees for the other programs can be linked from below:

Monday, 17 June 2019

2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards: Winners announced

Last week, the winners of the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced at Eastview Public School in Scarborough, Ontario. The juries for the two awards, Children's Picture Book and Young Adult/Middle Reader, each comprised of students from this school, the first from Grades 3 and 4 and the second from Grades 7 and 8.

Administered by the Ontario Arts Council, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards recognize artistic excellence in writing and illustration in English-language Canadian children’s literature. The award was established in 1976 by Sylvia Schwartz in memory of her sister, Ruth Schwartz, a respected Toronto bookseller. In 2004, the Schwartz family renamed the awards to honour both sisters.

Each award is accompanied by a $6000 prize, generously funded by the Ruth Schwartz Foundation.

CONGRATULATIONS to the WINNERS!

In the CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY,
the winner is:

Wab Kinew and Joe Morse

for their book

Go Show the World

Written by Wab Kinew

Illustrated by Joe Morse

Tundra Books
9780735262928
40 pp.
Ages 5-9

2018

Reviewed here

In the YOUNG ADULT/MIDDLE READER CATEGORY,
the winner is

Colleen Nelson

for her book

Sadia

Written by Colleen Nelson

Dundurn
978-1-45974-029-7
240 pp.
Ages 12+
2018
Reviewed here

CONGRATULATIONS
to the juries on their selection,
to the nominees for their inclusion,
and
the winners for their awards!

Friday, 29 September 2017

2017 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic

In July, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its three categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, also known as the Copper Cylinder award.

These awards, presented annually in the categories of Adult and Young Adult speculative fiction, plus a category of Short Story, aim to recognize the speculative fiction of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants), with a cash award and a Sunburst medallion. Winners were just announced this week.

Here were this year's nominees in the

Young Adult category

Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin Canada

Worlds of Ink and Shadow
by Lena Coakley
HarperCollins

The Inn Between
by Marina Cohen
Roaring Brook Press

Reviewed here

Julia Vanishes
by Catherine Egan
Doubleday Canada

Reviewed here

The Skids
by Ian Donald Keeling
ChiTeen

This year's

WINNER

in the Young Adult category

is

The Skids

by Ian Donald Keeling
ChiTeen/ChiZine
978-1-77148-385-8
287 pp.
Ages 12-15
2016

Sunday, 16 October 2016

2017 Forest of Reading®: Red Maple and White Pine nominees

This listing continues the posting of the nominees for the Ontario Library Association's 2016-2017 Forest of Reading® awards which were announced Friday.

Born With: Erika and Gianni
Written by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Clockwise Press

Flickers
Written by Arthur Slade
HarperCollins Canada

The Hill
Written by Karen Bass
Pajama Press

Lucky Jonah
Written by Richard Scrimger
HarperTrophy

MINRS
Written by Kevin Sylvester
Margaret K. McElderry Books

Sea Change
Written and Illustrated by Frank Viva
Tundra Books

Shattered Glass
Written by Teresa Toten
Orca Book Publishers

Shooter
Written by Caroline Pignat
Razorbill Canada

Trouble is a Friend of Mine
Written by Stephanie Tromly
Kathy Dawson Books

The Unquiet Past
Written by Kelley Armstrong
Orca Book Publishers

A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars
Written by Maria Birmingham
Illustrated by Josh Holinaty
Owlkids Books

Bite into Bloodsuckers
Written by Kari-Lynn Winters and Ishta Mercurio
Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Child Solder: When Boys and Girls are Used in War
Written by Michel Chikwanine and Jessica Dee Humphreys
Illustrated by Claudia Dávila
Kids Can Press

DNA Detective
Written by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Illustrated by Lillian Ruth (Lil) Crump
Annick Press

Faster Higher Stronger: Bright Ideas That Transformed Sports
Written by Simon Shapiro
Illustrated by Theo Krynauw and Warwick Goldswain
Annick Press