2016 Atlantic Book Awards shortlists of nominated titles announced

Yesterday, the Atlantic Book Awards Society announced the shortlists of nominated titles for its various book prizes.  Winners of the 2016 Atlantic Book Awards will be announced at a gala at Moncton’s historic Capitol Theatre on April 27, 2016.

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

This year, there are twelve Atlantic Book Awards that will be presented:

• Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
• Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
• Les Éloizes - Artiste de l’année en littérature (Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick)
• Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
• Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)
• Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
• Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)
• Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
• Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
• New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction
• Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-fiction 
• Westminster Books Award for Poetry

The nominees for the two 2016 Atlantic Book Awards for young readers are listed below.

ANN CONNOR BRIMER AWARD

 FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Delusion Road

by Don Aker

HarperCollins Publishers

Prison Boy

by Sharon E. McKay

Annick Press

Rain Shadow

by Valerie Sherrard

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

LILLIAN SHEPHERD AWARD 

FOR EXCELLENCE IN ILLUSTRATION

Doretta Groenendyk 

I’m Drawing a Picture

(Written by Doretta Groenendyk)

Acorn Press

Ron Lightburn 

Frankenstink!:  Garbage Gone Bad

(Written by Ron Lightburn)

Tundra Books

Tamara Thiebaux-Heikalo 

Mayann’s Train Ride

(Written by The Honourable Mayann Francis)

Nimbus Publishing

The 2016 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 2016 Awards titles must have been first published in the UK between September 1, 2014 and August 31,  2015.  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 in June on their website here.

This year, there are no Canadian authors' books on the shortlist for the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Medal for the writer of an outstanding book for children.

However, among the eight nominated illustrators shortlisted for the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, two feature Canadian illustrators, Jon Klassen and Sydney Smith, whose books covers I've provided here.

Here is the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist for 2016

Anthony Browne (author/illustrator)
Willy's Stories
Walker Books

Ross Collins (author/illustrator)
Bear on My Chair
Nosy Crow

Oliver Jeffers (author/illustrator)
Once Upon an Alphabet
HarperCollins

Jon Klassen (illustrator)
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
Mac Barnett (text)
Walker Books









Jackie Morris (author/illustrator)
Something About a Bear
Frances Lincoln

Helen Oxenbury (illustrator)
Captain Jack and the Pirates
Puffin

Chris Riddell (illustrator)
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Bloomsbury

Sydney Smith (illustrator)
Footpath Flowers
JonArno Lawson (text)
Walker Books/Groundwood Books
  

2016 BC Book Prizes finalists announced

On March 9th, the West Coast Book Prize Society announced the finalists for the 2016 BC Book Prizes. Prizes will be awarded in the following seven categories:

• Fiction 
• Non-Fiction 
• Poetry 
• Regional 
• Children's Literature 
• Illustrated Children's Literature 
• Booksellers' Choice 

There is also the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence which will be announced separately and later this month.

Nominees for all the awards can be found at http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2016

The nominees for the 2 children's awards are provided here:

 Sheila A. Egoff 

 Children’s Literature Prize 

Are You Seeing Me? 
by Darren Groth 
Orca Book Publishers

The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 1) 
by Jordan Stratford 
Knopf Books for Young Readers

Reviewed here

Seven Dead Pirates 
by Linda Bailey 
Tundra Books

The Truth Commission 
by Susan Juby 
Razorbill

Reviewed here

We Are All Made of Molecules 
by Susin Nielsen 
Tundra Books

Reviewed here

 Christie Harris Illustrated 

 Children’s Literature Prize 

Orca Chief 
by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd 
Illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers
Harbour Publishing

Peace is an Offering 
by Annette LeBox 
Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin 
Dial Books

The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle 
by Jude Isabella 
Illustrated by Simone Shin
Kids Can Press

Song for a Summer Night: A Lullaby 
by Robert Heidbreder 
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Groundwood Books

Reviewed here

This is Sadie 
by Sara O'Leary 
Illustrated by Julie Morstad
Tundra Books

The winners will be announced on Saturday, April 30, 2016.