The Willow Awards: 2012 Nominated Titles

The 2012 nominees for the Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice (SYRCA) awards, the Willow Awards, have been announced.

After reading a minimum number of titles, young readers will be invited to vote for their favourite on February 28, 2013.  Award winning titles will be announced in April, 2013 at a gala hosted at a Saskatchewan school. 

The three Willow Awards i.e., Shining Willow, Diamond Willow and Snow Willow are detailed below, along with this year's nominated titles.
 

The Shining Willow Award winner is selected from those books written for youngest readers, those in Kindergarten to Grade 3.

The 2012 Shining Willow nominees are:

• Ella May and the Wishing Stone
by Cary Fagan, Illustrated by Geneviève Côté
Tundra Books
2011

• I Know Here
by Laurel Croza, Illustrated by Matt James
Groundwood Books
2010

• In the Bag!: Margaret Knight Wraps It Up
By Monica Kulling, Illustrated by David Parkins
Tundra Books
2011

• Little Chief and Mighty Gopher: The Pemmican Frenzy
By Victor Lethbridge, Illustrated by Ben Crane
Tatanka Productions
2010

• Loon
By Susan Vande Griek, Illustrated by Karen Reczuch
Groundwood Books
2011

• Picture a Tree!
By Barbara Reid
Scholastic Canada
2011

• Small Saul
By Ashley Spires
Kids Can Press
2011

•The Busy Beaver
By Nicholas Oldland
Kids Can Press
2011

• The Flute
By Rachna Gilmore, Illustrated by Pulak Biswas
Tradewind Books
2011

• Tooter's Stinky Wish
By Brian Cretney, Illustrated by Peggy Collins
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2011

The Diamond Willow Award winner is selected from those books written for readers of Grades 4 to 6.

The 2012 Diamond Willow nominees are:

• Better Than Weird

By Anna Kerz
Orca Book Publishers
2011

• Full Steam to Canada
By Anne Patton
Coteau Books
2011

• Ghosts of Government House
By Judith Silverthorne
Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing
2011

• Ghosts of the Titanic
By Julie Lawson
Scholastic Canada
2011

• Missing
By Becky Citra
Orca Book Publishers
2011

• No Small Victory
By Connie Brummel Crook
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2010

• Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World
By Susan Hughes
Owlkids
2011

• Power Play
By Liam O’Donnell, Illustrated by Mike Deas
Orca Book Publishers
2011

• Somebody's Girl
By Maggie de Vries
Ocra Book Publishers
2011

• Spy, Spy Again: True Tales of Failed Espionage
By Tina Holdcroft
Annick Press
2011

The Snow Willow Award winner is selected from those books written for readers in Grades 7 to 9.

The 2012 Snow Willow nominees are:

• Accomplice
By Valerie Sherrard
Dundurn Press

2011

• Ashes, Ashes
By Jo Treggiari
Scholastic Press

2011

• Betsy Wickwire's Dirty Secret
By Vicki Grant
HarperTrophy Canada

2011

• Dust City
By Robert Paul Weston
Puffin Canada

2010

• The Gathering
By Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada

2011

• Held
By Edeet Ravel
Annick Press

2011

• Shot at Dawn: World War I, Alan McBride, France 1917
By John Wilson
Scholastic Canada

2011

• This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

By Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins

2011

• Tori By Design

By Colleen Nelson
Great Plains Fiction

2011

• Undergrounders

By David Skuy
Scholastic Canada

2011

Congratulations to all nominated authors, illustrators and publishers!