Atlantic Book Awards: 2012

Last night, at a literary fundraiser that featured author Alexander Macleod speaking with other CanLit authors, the Atlantic Book Awards Society announced the shortlists of nominated titles for its nine different book prizes.

The Atlantic Book Awards and Festival will be held May 10-17, 2012, comprising of numerous free events in all Canadian Atlantic provinces, and will culminate with an awards ceremony on May 17 in Newfoundland.

To get more information about the Atlantic Canada Book Awards and this year's nominated titles, go to http://www.atlanticbookawards.ca/2012-atlantic-book-awards-and-festival-shortlist/


The nine Atlantic Book Awards are:

• Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature

• APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, sponsored by Friesens

• 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

• Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction

• The Bruneau Family Children’s/Young Adult Literature Award

Congratulations go out to all authors, illustrators and publishers.

If you've been reading CanLit for LittleCanadians, you know I always like to emphasize books for younger readers.  Here are the Atlantic Book Awards nominations of books and author/illustrators for young readers: 

Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature

Betsy Wickwire’s Dirty Secret
by Vicki Grant
HarperCollins Canada

Chasing Freedom
by Gloria Ann Wesley
Roseway Publishing

The Year Mrs. Montague Cried
by Susan White 
Acorn Press









Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration

Thank You for My Bed
Illustrated and written by Doretta Groenendyk
Acorn Press

A Day with You in Paradise
Illustrated by Patsy MacKinnon  
Written by Lennie Gallant
Nimbus Publishing

There were Monkeys in My Kitchen
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
Written by Sheree Fitch
Nimbus Publishing


 




Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

The Town That Drowned 
by Riel Nason
Goose Lane Editions









The Bruneau Family Children’s/Young Adult Literature Award

Jack and the Manger
by Andy Jones
Running the Goat Books & Broadsides

Edge of Time
by Susan M. MacDonald
Breakwater Books

Dragon Seer’s Gift 
by Janet McNaughton
HarperCollins Canada