Today, the Canadian Children's Book Centre, our nationally-renowned authority on all things related to youngCanLit, announced the finalists for the 2014 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards. (Press release available here)
The seven major children's book awards, which will be awarded at two invitation-only galas in October and November, include:
- TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award ($30,000) Sponsored by TD Bank Group;
- Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse ($30,000) Sponsored by TD Bank Group;
- Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award ($20,000) Sponsored by A. Charles Baillie;
- Norma Fleck Award For Canadian Children's Non-Fiction ($10,000) Sponsored by the Fleck Family Foundation;
- Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People ($5,000) Sponsored by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Bilson Endowment Fund;
- John Spray Mystery Award ($5,000) Sponsored by John Spray; and
- Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy ($5,000) Sponsored by HarperCollins Canada.
Here are the short lists for each award category, as announced by the Canadian Children's Book Centre today:
TD Canadian Children’s
Literature Award
Branded by the Pink Triangle
by Ken Setterington
Second Story Press
In the Tree House
by Andrew Larsen
Illustrated by Dušan Petričić
Kids Can Press
The Man with the Violin
by Kathy Stinson
Illustrated by Dušan Petričić
Annick Press
Once Upon a Northern Night
by Jean E. Pendziwol
Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Groundwood Books
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
by Teresa Toten
Doubleday Canada
Prix TD de littérature canadienne
pour l’enfance et la jeunesse
Destins croisés
par Élizabeth Turgeon
Les Éditions du Boréal
Le lion et l'oiseau
par Marianne Dubuc
Les Éditions de la Pastèque
Ma petite boule d'amour
par Jasmine Dubé
Illustré par Jean-Luc Trudel
Les Éditions de la Bagnole
Le Noël de Marguerite
par India Desjardins
Illustraté par Pascal Blanchet
Les Éditions de la Pastèque
La plus grosse poutine du monde
par Andrée Poulin
Bayard Canada
Marilyn Baillie
Picture Book Award
Fox and Squirrel
by Ruth Ohi
How To
by Julie Morstad
Simply Read Books
The Man with the Violin
by Kathy Stinson
Illustrated by Dušan Petričić
Annick Press
My Name Is Blessing
by Eric Walters
Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes
Tundra Books
Where Do You Look?
by Marthe Jocelyn and Nell Jocelyn
Tundra Books
Norma Fleck Award For
Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
Branded by the Pink Triangle
by Ken Setterington
Second Story Press
A History of Just About Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the World
by Elizabeth MacLeod and Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Kids Can Press
The Last Train: A Holocaust Story
by Rona Arato
Owlkids Books
Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids
by Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books
My Name Is Blessing
by Eric Walters
Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes
Tundra Books
Geoffrey Bilson Award for
Historical Fiction for Young People
Brothers at War
by Don Cummer
Scholastic Canada
Graffiti Knight
by Karen Bass
Pajama Press
Little Red Lies
by Julie Johnston
Tundra
Me & Mr. Bell
by Julie Johnston
Tundra
The Manager
by Caroline Stellings
Cape Breton University Press
Me & Mr. Bell
by Philip Roy
Cape Breton University Press
John Spray
Mystery Award
The Further Adventures of Jack Lime
by James Leck
Kids Can Press
The Metro Dogs of Moscow
by Rachelle Delaney
Puffin Canada
The Spotted Dog Last Seen
by Jessica Scott Kerrin
Groundwood Books
Whatever Doesn’t Kill You
by Elizabeth Wennick
Orca Book Publishers
Who I’m Not
by Ted Staunton
Orca Book Publishers
Monica Hughes Award
for Science Fiction and Fantasy
Curse of the Dream Witch
by Allan Stratton
Scholastic Canada
Rush (The Game, Book 1)
by Eve Silver
Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins
Sorrow’s Knot
by Erin Bow
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
The Stowaways
by Meghan Marentette
Illustrated by Dean Griffiths
Pajama Press
Slated (Slated Trilogy, Book1)
by Teri Terry
Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Young Readers Group
Hosted by the Canadian Children's Book Centre and TD Bank Group, the Children's Literature Awards will celebrate great Canadian children's books and present the winners of the awards on the evenings of October 28 and November 6, 2014 in Montreal and Toronto, respectively. Look for my announcement about the winners then.
WOW! These are all wonderful books - glad I don't have to pick the winners.
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