2012 Australian Indie Awards Shortlists"
Children's Shortlists
Fllow the link for the other shortlists...
John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature:
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, is the 2012 Newbery Medal winner.
Two Newbery Honor Books also were named: "Inside Out & Back Again," written by Thanhha Lai and published by HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers; and "Breaking Stalin's Nose," written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin, and published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:
A Ball for Daisy illustrated and written by Chris Raschka, is the 2012 Caldecott Medal winner.
Three Caldecott Honor Books also were named: "Blackout," illustrated and written by John Rocco, and published by Disney · Hyperion Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group; "Grandpa Green" illustrated and written by Lane Smith, and published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership; and "Me ... Jane," illustrated and written by Patrick McDonnell, and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley, is the 2012 Printz Award winner.
For the full award list, follow the link at the top of the post...
WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S COSTA AWARD
from The Independent:
This year's Novel Award winner, Andrew Miller, beat the Man Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes with his sixth book, Pure, about a young engineer charged with demolishing a Paris cemetery in 1785.Matthew Hollis won the Biography Award with Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas, beating Claire Tomalin's bestselling Charles Dickens: A Life.
Carol Ann Duffy's The Bees is her first collection of new poems since becoming Poet Laureate in 2009.
The two debut novels, Christie Watson's Tiny Sunbirds Far Away and Moira Young's Blood Red Road are the 5/1 outsiders for Book of the Year at William Hill, with Hollis's biography the favourite to pick up the £30,000 prize. The five winners were selected from 568 entries and will receive £5,000 each.
| Blue Peter Book Awards Shortlist
The Blue Peter Book Awards 2012 shortlist: This year's judges who selected the shortlist are the bestselling children's author of the series My Secret Unicorn and Stardust, Linda Chapman; librarian, Rebecca Gediking; and Blue Peter Editor, Tim Levell. They were looking for the best two fiction and non-fiction titles that would appeal to boys and girls, aged between 6 and 12. The shortlisted books will now be judged by more than 200 young Blue Peter viewers drawn from 10 schools across the UK to decide the winner. This year for the first time, the winner will be announced and awarded a Blue Peter trophy on a special edition of Blue Peter dedicated to children's books on Thursday 1 March 2012, to coincide with World Book Day. |
Betsy Bird's A Fuse #8 Production, Joyce Valenza's NeverEndingSearch, Karyn Silverman's and Sarah Couri's Some Day My Printz Will Come, and Angela Carstensen's Adult Books 4 Teens were nominated by the Australia-based Edublog website as important resources that aid educators. Hundreds of blog readers submitted recommendations in 19 categories that range from best individual blog and most influential post to best free web tool and best library/librarian blog.
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties), and Alex Wheatle MBE, the award-winning British novelist of Jamaican heritage, have joined the judging panel of The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award, which was jointly founded by Frances Lincoln Ltd and Seven Stories, the national centre for children's books, in memory of Frances Lincoln (1945-2001) to encourage and promote diversity in children's fiction.
The prize of £1,500, plus the option for Janetta Otter-Barry at Frances Lincoln Children's Books to publish the novel, will be awarded to the best work of unpublished fiction for 8-to-12-year-olds by a writer, aged 18 years or over, who has not previously published a novel for children.
There have been three previous awards and Janetta Otter-Barry has commissioned or published eight books by writers who entered the award: four Takeshita Demons books by Cristy Burne, winner of the inaugural award; Too Much Trouble by Tom Avery, the 2010 winner; last year's winner Om Shanti Babe by Helen Limon, which will be published in 2012;
and A Hen in the Wardrobe and The Black Cat Detectives, the first two titles in the Cinnamon Grove series by Wendy Meddour, who entered the 2009 award.
For more details about the award and how to enter visit www.sevenstories.org.uk
The closing date for all entries is midnight on Monday 31 December 2012
Eleanor Farjeon Award 2011
The Federation of Children's Book Groups has won the 2011 Eleanor Farjeon Award.The Eleanor Farjeon Award is coordinated by the Children's Book Circle and is given to individuals or organisations that have been deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to the world of children's books.
At a ceremony in London the Children's Book Circle and Anne Harvey, from the Eleanor Farjeon estate, presented the £2000 gift to Chair Adam Lancaster. In his acceptance speech Adam spend time passionately talking about the work that everyone in the charity is involved in. This ranged from groups running numerous events in their localities with a number of partners to the national executive working as an umbrella providing opportunities for a whole host of events to take place.
Adam, who is also founder of National Non-Fiction Day, explained the Federation's past and thanked all the people over the years that played a part in creating hundreds of thousands of readers. 'Everyone involved in the Federation is a special person. They are the ones on the front line, working with tens of thousands of young people each year, doing those things that politicians and suited board men talk about. To be awarded this honour is to recognise all those people who over the years have played a part in igniting that spark and fanning those flames of reading. Books change lives. The Federation changes lives.'
very well done to the FCBG, and apologies for not posting news of this last week
Pop ups, pull outs and other paper wizardry are used to explore the science of the Earth in the winner of the 2011 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, How the World Works,, announced today (Thursday 1 December 2011).
The prize will be awarded at a ceremony at the Royal Society in London on the evening of Thursday 1 December. The authors win an award of £10,000 and the authors of each shortlisted book receive £1000.
The book was chosen as the winner from a shortlist of six books by junior judging panels made up of over 1000 young people from over 100 school and youth groups. Judging panels came from across the UK and Commonwealth - from Dundee in northern Scotland to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, said: "Science captured my imagination as a child, from exploring the minutiae of the natural world on my walk to school to chasing Sputnik as it blazed across the night sky. Brilliant science books also have the potential to do this and completely change children's understanding of the world around them. We believe that by involving the young in the judging of the Royal Society Young People's Books Prize we can help to inspire them with the joys of science, whilst also ensuring that the winner is chosen by those best qualified to judge, the readers themselves."
The other books shortlisted for this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize were:
The Icky, Sticky Snot and Blood Book by Steve Alton and Nick Sharratt (Bodley Head)
What's the Point of Being Green? by Jacqui Bailey (Franklin Watts)
What Mr Darwin Saw by Mick Manning and Brita Granström (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
The Story of Astronomy and Space (Usborne)
What Goes On In My Head? by Robert Winston (Dorling Kindersley)
The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize did not take place in 2008 - 2010 due to funding issues. The Prize can be offered again thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, with funding guaranteed for the next four years.
national Book Awards [US] Winners
The winners were:
Young People's Literature: Thanhha Lai for "Inside Out and Back Again" (HarperCollins)
Poetry: Nikky Finney for "Head Off and Split" (Triquarterly)
Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Fiction: Jesmyn Ward for "Salvage the Bones" (Bloomsbury)
Brief summaries of the children's books shortlisted for the Costa, with picture of Small Change for Stuart author, Lissa Evans
GOVERNOR GENERAL AWARDS WINNERS
Children's Literature -- Text
Christopher Moore (Toronto) From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
(Tundra Books; distributed by Random House of Canada)
Martin Fournier (Québec) Les aventures de Radisson - 1. L'enfer ne brûle pas
(Les éditions du Septentrion; distributed by Diffusion Dimedia)
Children's Literature -- Illustration
Cybèle Young (Toronto) Ten Birds, text by Cybèle Young
(Kids Can Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press)
Caroline Merola (Montreal) Lili et les poilus, text by Caroline Merola
(Dominique et Compagnie, a division of Éditions Héritage; distributed by Messageries ADP, Groupe Sogides)
The children's books shortlist comprises
Martyn Bedford for Flip
Frank Cottrell Boyce for The Unforgotten Coat
Lissa Evans for Small Change for Stuart
Moira Young for Blood Red Road
Guardian piece by winner of this year's Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, announced last night...
The Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011 has been won by Andy Mulligan for Return to Ribblestrop
Andy Mulligan is also the author of Trash.
Roald Dahl Funny Prize Winners
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon
Cats Ahoy by Peter Bently and Jim Field
from The Guardian's report:
For the first time this year, children were involved in the voting. Rosen describes it as "just like Strictly Come Dancing. Four judges sit with buns and coffee and choose the shortlist and grade them and put them in an order, with lots of shouting and ripping and stabbing and smashing cafetieres. Then the 400 children read the books on the shortlist and grade it and then the two league tables are amalgamated and the winner comes out of that amalgamation."He added that it was "wonderful to build in a children's viewpoint because you can hit a wall in the judging where too often you get into the 'would' bit - you start saying that children 'would' like it. Now we've built in children 'do' like it rather than children 'would'."
