Spring: A season of book award announcements

Spring may have sprung (finally!) but I feel like I've been digging myself in deep under the mountain of book award announcements.  It seems that every regional, national and international book award is announcing winners or shortlists or upcoming announcements of winners or nominee shortlists (yes, there are announcements about announcements).  In case you've missed some of the announcements, here's a list of some which I have posted on CanLit for LittleCanadians: Awards blog just since the beginning of spring (the calendar spring, not the weather spring):

Regional

• Jean Throop Book Award: winner
• Atlantic Book Awards: nominees 
• Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards: nominees 
• Hackmatack 2014//2015: shortlists
• BC Book Prizes: winners
• Willow Awards (SYRCA): winners
• Red Cedar Book Award: winners  
• Violet Downey Book Award: nominees
• Forest of Reading: winners
• Atlantic Book Awards: winners 
• Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards: winners 
• Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards 2015: nominees
• Saskatchewan Book Award: winners
• Rocky Mountain Book Award: winner
• Alberta Literary Awards: nominees
• Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards: winners

National

• Canadian Library Association Book Award: winners
• Arthur Ellis Awards: nominees  
• IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver: winner 
• Crystal Kite Award for Canada: winners
• CBA Libris Book Awards: nominees
• Canadian Science Writers' Association Book Award: shortlists

International

• CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards: nominees

Hard to keep up with the reviewing when I want to broadcast the awards' shortlists and winners, all with the goal of promoting youngCanLit.  The more that bloggers and readers and organizations champion extraordinary children's books by Canadian authors and illustrators, the more likely that a Canadian publisher won't go under, a writer will continue to write or more great books will be created.

Check out these lists of nominees and winners and see how many titles reappear on multiple lists or which ones are unique to one list.  Read the comments made by the juries or readers who make selections.  And enjoy the wealth of outstanding literature, as always!

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