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

2015 Saskatchewan Book Award winners announced

Of the nine Saskatchewan Book Awards (SBA) for Writing, only the SaskEnergy award is specific to children's literature.  As such, I'd like to announce that award winner here.

The winner of 

 the 2015 SaskEnergy Young Adult Literature Award 

is  

Camp Outlook 

by Brenda Baker

 Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 4-8
2012 

2015 Sunburst Awards for Can Lit of the Fantastic: Shortlists announced

Two days ago, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its two categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. (Shortlists published at http://www.sunburstaward.org/2015-sunburst-shortlists)

These awards, presented annually in the categories of Adult and Young Adult speculative fiction, aim to recognize the novels or book-length collections of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants) of fantasy, with a cash award and a Sunburst medallion. Winners will be announced in September.

Here are this year's nominees in the Young Adult category:

The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin

Tin Star
by Cecil Castellucci
Roaring Brook Press

A Breath of Frost
by Alyxandra Harvey
Bloomsbury Press

Sophie, In Shadow
by Eileen Kernaghan
Thistledown Press

The Door in the Mountain
by Caitlin Sweet
ChiTeen

Congratulations to all nominees!