2014 IBBY Honour Books

The 2014 IBBY Honour List, a selection of outstanding books intended to encourage international understanding through children's literature has announced this year's titles of nominees.  The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-governmental organization with an official status in UNESCO and UNICEF advocating for children's books.  National Sections, IBBY Canada for us, nominate books that represent the best in children's literature, providing insight into diverse cultural, political and social setting and suitable for publication throughout the world.

Of the 150 nominations, these following five were submitted by IBBY Canada:

For text:

The Stamp Collector
by Jennifer Lanthier

Mingan, mon village: Poèmes d'écoliers innus
by Rogé









For illustration:

Virginia Wolf
Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault









For translation:


Harvey: How I Became Invisible 
Translated by Helen Mixter
(English translation of Harvey by Hervé Bouchard and Janice Nadeau)

Les maux d’Ambroise Bukowski
Translated by Rachel Martinez
(French translation of Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen)







BUT, an added nomination with a youngCanLit connection is Germany's nomination for translation of Robert Paul Weston's Zorgamazoo  (translated by Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn)


The full IBBY Honour List 2014 may be viewed here.

The selected books will be presented at the IBBY Congress in Mexico City, 10-13 September 2014.

2014 USBBY Outstanding International Books

Each year, the United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) compiles its Outstanding International Books (OIB) List of books that, while published or distributed in the U.S., originated or were first published outside of the USA. These books are "deemed most outstanding of those published" in the previous year and, not surprisingly, a number of Canadian books have earned this honour.

Congratulations 

to the following Canadian books for young people 

for inclusion on

the 2014 USBBY Outstanding International Books List:

For GRADES PreK-2

Once Upon a Northern Night

by Jean E. Pendziwol
Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Groundwood/House of Anansi

Reviewed here

Picture a Tree

by Barbara Reid
Whitman

Out the Window

by Cybèle Young
Groundwood/House of Anansi

Reviewed here

For GRADES 6-8

Raziaʼs Ray of Hope: One Girlʼs Dream of an Education

by Elizabeth Suneby
Illustrated by Suana Verelst
Kids Can Press

Jane, the Fox and Me

by Fanny Britt

Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault

Translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou
Groundwood/House of Anansi

War Brothers: The Graphic Novel

by Sharon E. McKay
Illustrated by Daniel Lafrance
Annick Press
Reviewed here 

Branded by the Pink Triangle
by Ken Setterington

Second Story Press

Touched by Fire
by Irene N. Watts

Tundra Books

The 2014 Amelia Bloomer Project List

The Amelia Bloomer Project is part of the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association’s Social Responsibility Round Table.  Each year it selects books with significant feminist content that will appeal to young readers in the following categories:

• Early Readers: Fiction, Non-fiction
• Middle Grade: Fiction, Non-fiction
• Young Adult: Fiction, Non-fiction

This year two #youngCanLit books were recognized in the Middle Grade Non-fiction category. 

  

Congratulations to authors  

Christine Welldon and Frieda Wishinsky 

on this recognition!

Reporter in Disguise: The Intrepid Vic Steinberg
by Christine Welldon
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
78 pp.
Gr. 5-8
2013
A biography of Vic Steinberg, an early female reporter, who used disguises to go places most women of her time weren’t allowed.

Profiles: Freedom Heroines
by Frieda Wishinsky
Scholastic
144 pp.
Gr. 4-6
2012
The stories of six women who furthered the cause of civil rights and feminism.

Profiles: Freedom Heroines was selected as a Top Ten Amelia Bloomer Book


The complete 2014 Amelia Bloomer Project List can be viewed at
http://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/2014-amelia-bloomer-project-list/