2014 Arthur Ellis Awards for Crime Writing: Shortlists announced

Yes, yes, yes!  The shortlists of nominees for the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing were announced tonight.   Awarded annually by the Crime Writers of Canada since 1984, the Arthur Ellis Awards include the following categories:

For Published Works:

• Best Crime Novel *
• Best First Crime Novel 
• Best Crime Book in French
• Best Crime Nonfiction
• Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book
• Best Crime Short Story

For Unpublished Work:

• The Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel *

*Awards for which prizes are provided

Here are the nominees for the 2014 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book:

Karen Autio

Sabotage 

Sono Nis Press

 

Gail Gallant

Apparition 

Doubleday Canada

Elizabeth MacLeod

Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History’s Mysteries
Annick Press

Ted Staunton

Who I’m Not 

Orca Book Publishers

The 2014 winners will be announced at the Arthur Ellis Awards gala dinner on Thursday, June 5, at the Arts & Letters Club in downtown Toronto.

The 2014 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 2014 Awards titles must have been first published in the UK between 1 September 1, 2012 and August 31,  2013.  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 on June 23, 2014 on their website here.

This year, there are no Canadian authors' books on the shortlist for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal for the writer of an outstanding book for children.

However, among the seven nominated illustrators shortlisted for the 2014 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, two feature Canadian-born illustrator, Jon Klassen. (I have only posted covers of these two.)

Here is the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist for 2014

Rebecca Cobb (illustrator)
The Paper Dolls
Julia Donaldson (text)
Macmillan Children's Books

Olivia Gill (illustrator)
Where My Wellies Take Me
Michael Morpurgo and Clare Morpurgo (text)
Templar

Oliver Jeffers (illustrator)
The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt (text)
HarperCollins

Jon Klassen (author/illustrator)
This is Not My Hat
Walker Books

Jon Klassen (illustrator)
The Dark
Lemony Snicket (text)
Orchard Books






 
Dave McKean (illustrator)
Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf
David Almond (text)
Walker Books

Birgitta Sif (author/illustrator)
Oliver
Walker Books

2014 Atlantic Book Awards shortlists announced

On April 4, 2014 , the Atlantic Book Awards Society announced the shortlists of nominated titles for its various book prizes.  Winners of the 2014 Atlantic Book Awards will be announced at a special awards show on Wednesday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m. at the Delta Prince Edward/PEI Convention Centre in Charlottetown, PEI.

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

This year, the ten Atlantic Book Awards that will be presented are:

• Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
• APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, sponsored by Friesens
• Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing, sponsored by Marquis Imprimeur
• Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson, presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
• Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
• Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke
• Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
• Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
• Prince Island Book Award for Fiction
• Prince Island Book Award for Non-Fiction

The nominees for the two 2014 Atlantic Book Awards for young readers are listed below.

ANN CONNOR BRIMER AWARD

 FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Nix Minus One
By Jill MacLean
Pajama Press

Reviewed here

The Power of Harmony
by Jan L. Coates
Red Deer Press

Reviewed here

The Stowaways
by Meghan Marentette
Pajama Press

Reviewed here

LILLIAN SHEPHERD AWARD 

FOR EXCELLENCE IN ILLUSTRATION

Illustrator: Susan Tooke
Lasso the Wind:  Aurélia’s Verses and Other Poems
by George Elliott Clarke
Nimbus Publishing

Illustrator: Leonard Paul
Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow 
by William Dumas
Portage & Main Press







Illustrator: Deanne Fitzpatrick
Singily Skipping Along 
by Sheree Fitch
Nimbus Publishing