CanLit for LittleCanadians: Ontario Arts Council

June 26, 2022

2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards: Winners announced

On June 22, 2022, the Ontario Arts Council announced the winners of the 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards as selected by two juries of young readers at North York’s Faywood Arts-Based Curriculum School.

A jury of four students in grade 4 selected the recipient of the Children’s Picture Book Award, and a jury of grade 8 students selected the winner of the Young Adult / Middle Reader Award.

Congratulations to both winners and to the juries for their auspicious selections!

Winner of the

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz

Children’s Picture Book Award

Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know

Written by Brittany Luby

Illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

Anishinaabemowin translation by Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere

Groundwood Press

978-1-77306-326-3
44 pp.
All ages

2021

Reviewed here

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Winner of the

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz

Young Adult / Middle Reader Award

Firefly

Written by Philippa Dowding
DCB
978-1-77086-598-3
200 pp.
Ages 9-12

2021

Reviewed here

Interview with author Philippa Dowding

April 24, 2012

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards 2012 Short Lists announced!

Today, the Ontario Arts Foundation, on behalf of the Ruth Schwartz Foundation, announced the 2012 short lists for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards.

Administered by the Ontario Arts Foundation, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards recognize artistic excellence in writing and illustration in English-language Canadian children’s literature. The award was established in 1976 by Sylvia Schwartz in memory of her sister, Ruth Schwartz, a respected Toronto bookseller. In 2004, the Schwartz family renamed the awards to honour both sisters.

While funded generously by the Ruth Schwartz Foundation ($6000 for each award) and administered by the Ontario Arts Foundation, the awards are selected by two juries of young readers from Parkdale Junior and Senior Public School. Five students from Grades 2 and 3 select the award-winning book for the Children's Picture Book Award, and five students from Grade 8 select the Young Adult/Middle Reader Book Award recipient.

Here are the titles short-listed for the 2012 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards:

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY