Good Luck to Arthur Slade, Colleen Sydor, Frieda Wishinsky and Shane Peacock!
Congratulations to THIN AIR alumni Arthur Slade, Colleen Sydor, Frieda Wishinsky and 2010 author Shane Peacock for being on the shortlists for the 2010 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards. The English-language winners will be announced at a gala in Toronto on November 9.
Arthur has been nominated for the $25,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, Colleen and Frieda have been nominated for the $20,000 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and Shane Peacock has been nominated for the $5,000 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
Congratulations and good luck!
All of the finalists (and the awards) are listed below:
The finalists for the $25,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award are:
Janet McNaughton, Dragon Seer (HarperCollins Canada)
Sharon Jennings, Home Free (Second Story Press)
Arthur Slade, The Hunchback Assignments (HarperCollins Canada)
William Gilkerson, A Thousand Years of Pirates (Tundra Books)
Nancy Hartry, Watching Jimmy (Tundra)
The finalists for the $20,000 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award are:
Janet Perlman, The Delicious Bug (Kids Can Press)
Geneviève Côté, Me and You (Kids Can Press)
Joanne Schwartz; Laura Beingessner, illus., Our Corner Grocery Store (Tundra)
Colleen Sydor; Nicolas Debon, illus., Timmerman Was Here (Tundra)
Frieda Wishinsky; Kady MacDonald Denton, illus., You’re Mean, Lily Jean (Scholastic Canada)
The finalists for the $10,000 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-fiction are:
Priscilla Galloway and Dawn Hunter, Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road (Annick Press)
Charis Cotter, Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors (Annick)
Scot Ritchie, Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills (Kids Can Press)
William Gilkerson, A Thousand Years of Pirates (Tundra)
Kathy Kacer and Sharon E. McKay, Whispers from the Ghettos (Puffin Canada)
The finalists for the $5,000 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People are:
Laura Best, Bitter, Sweet (Nimbus Pubishing)
John Wilson, Crusade (Key Porter Books)
Barbara Haworth-Attard, Haunted (HarperCollins Canada)
Shane Peacock, Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, Book 3 (Tundra)
Nancy Hartry, Watching Jimmy (Tundra)
The finalists for the $25,000 Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse are:
Geneviève Côté, Comme toi! (Éditions Scholastic)
Mélanie Tellier, Le géranium (Éditions Marchand de feuilles)
Philippe Béha, Monsieur Leloup (Éditions Fides)
Guy Marchamps; Marie-Claude Favreau, illus., Rêver à l’envers, c’est encore rêver (Soulières éditeur)
Angèle Delaunois, Venus d’ailleurs (Éditions Hurtubise)