2015 MYRCA winners announced

On April 17th 2015, the Manitoba School Library Association announced the winners of the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) for 2015 from the nominees announced last spring.

The 2015 winning title, as voted by young Manitoba readers of ages 10 to 14, is

Ultra

by David Carroll

Scholastic Book Publishers

978-1-4431-1918-4

192 pp.

Ages 11-14

2013

Reviewed here

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Congratulations to the readers' two Honour Books:

Home Ice Advantage
by Tom Earle
HarperCollins Canada
978-1-44340-904-9
224 pp.
Ages 8-13
2013

Reviewed here

Loki's Wolves

by K. L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr

Little Brown and Company

978-0-316-20496-5

364 pp.

Ages 10-14

2013

Reviewed here 

  CONGRATULATIONS 

 to all Winners 

of this literacy awards program:
 authors, publishers and readers!  

2015 CLA Book Award Winners announced!

Finally! The announcements of winners of the Canadian Library Association's annual book awards have been released.  From extraordinary shortlists to outstanding winners, the selection committees have once again done their association proud.

The full list of press releases from CLA is available here.

This award recognizes an illustrator of a noteworthy Canadian book, published in 2014, that appeals to children up to the age of 12 years.

Congratulations to the Winner:

* Any Questions? *

by Marie-Louise Gay
Groundwood Books

Congratulations also to Honour Book selected:

Dolphin SOS

Illustrated by Julie Flett

Wrtitten by Roy Miki and Slavia Miki

Tradewind Books

Press release announcement from CLA

This notable award recognizes a Canadian author of an outstanding book published in Canada in 2014, which appeals to children up to and including age 12.

Congratulations to the Winner:

* The Night Gardener *

by Jonathan Auxier

Penguin Canada

Congratulations also to the two Honour Books selected:

The Boundless
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada

The Swallow: A Ghost Story
by Charis Cotter
Tundra Books

Press release announcement from CLA

This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English-language Canadian work of fiction (novel, collection of short stories or graphic novel), published in 2014, that appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.

Congratulations to the Winner:

* This One Summer *

by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Groundwood Books

Press release announcement from CLA

2015 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards: Nominees announced

Today, the Ontario Arts Foundation announced the 2015 nominees for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards that recognize artistic excellence in writing and illustration in English-language Canadian children’s literature.  The awards will be selected by two juries of young readers, this year from Alexander Muir/Gladstone Avenue Junior and Senior Public School, Toronto, Ontario.  Five students from Grades 3 and 4 will select the award-winning book for the Children's Picture Book Award, and five students from Grades 7 and 8 will select the Young Adult/Middle Reader Book Award recipient.  The prizes, $6000 each, will be given out May 15 at the school.

Here are the two short-lists of nominees announced today:

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In the CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY, the nominees are: 

A Brush Full of Colour: The World of Ted Harrison

Written by Margriet Ruurs and Katherine Gibson 

Pajama Press

The Magician of Auschwitz

Written by Kathy Kacer 
Illustrations by Gillian Newland 
Second Story Press

The Most Magnificent Thing 
Written and illustrated by Ashley Spires 
Kids Can Press

Nancy Knows  
Written and illustrated by Cybèle Young 
Tundra Books

Starring Me and You
Written and illustrated by Geneviève Côté 
Kids Can Press

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In the  YOUNG ADULT/MIDDLE READER CATEGORY, the nominees are:

Audrey (cow)
by Dan Bar-el 
Tundra Books

The Boundless
by Kenneth Oppel 
HarperCollins Canada

Julian
by William Bell 
Doubleday Canada

Lord and Lady Bunny - Almost Royalty!
by Polly Horvath 
Groundwood Books

Moon at Nine
by Deborah Ellis 
Pajama Press

 Congratulations to all nominees