Awards: October 2004 Archives

The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke translated from German by Oliver Latsch (The Chicken House, 2004)
First published in Germany in 2000.
(Age: 9+)

The Shamer's Signet by Lene Kaaberbol translated from Danish by the author (Hodder Children?s Books, 2003)
First published in Denmark in 2001.
(Age: 9+)

Playing with Fire by Henning Mankell translated from Swedish by Anna Paterson (Allen & Unwin, 2002)
First published in Sweden in 2001.
(Age: 13+)

Eye of the Wolf by Daniel Pennac translated from French by Sarah Adams
(Walker Books, 2002)
First published in France in 1982.
(Age: 9+)

Kamo's Escape by Daniel Pennac translated from French by Sarah Adams
(Walker Books, 2004)
First published in France in 1992.
(Age: 9+)

The winner will be announced at a ceremony at The Arts Club on 20th January 2005. Aidan Chambers, internationally acclaimed author and President of the School Library Association, will present the award and a prize of ?1000 to the translator of the winning book.

2004 Governor-General's Award for Children's Literature Shortlists:

Text
Martine Leavitt - Heck Superhero (Red Deer Press)
Sharon McKay - Esther (Penguin Canada)
Kenneth Oppel - Airborn (HarperCollins)
Judd Palmer - The Wolf King (Raincoast Books)
Ange Zhang - Red Land:Yellow River (Groundwood Books)

Illustration
Nicolas Debon - Dawn Watch (Groundwood Books)
Marie-Louise Gay - Stella, Princess of the Sky (Groundwood Books)
Stephane Jorisch - Jabberwocky (Kids Can Press)
Kim Le Fave - A Very Unusual Dog (Scholastic/North Winds Press)
Barbara Reid - Peg and the Yeti (HarperCollins)

The Norma Fleck Award recognizes outstanding non-fiction books for young people. The $10,000 award is the largest of its kind in Canadian Children's Literature.

2004 Norma Fleck Award Winner
Val Ross for The Road to There (Tundra Books)

Andrea Deakin writes:
Val Ross is a well-known and respected journalist who has won a National Newspaper Award. She is the deputy comment editor at "The Globe and Mail". This is her first book.
"The Road to There: Mapmakers and their Stories" introduces children to several mapmakers and reflects on how their characters and the times influenced the way they worked. There is Cheng Ho, a Fifteenth Century Chinese admiral whose travels were suddenly limited by a change in government; slaves on the run who were guided by specially-pieced quilts; Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese prince who had a passion for exploration, Lewis and Clark, Captain Cook, and a woman who mapped the streets of London. Ms. Ross writes of fraudsters who changed maps for gain; present investigators who who try and to map the ocean floor, and those who practice aerial photography, mapping not only the present, but also the past.
The book contains reproductions of contemporary maps, illustrations, and photographs and ends with a chapter by chapter bibliography.
"The Road to There" is also the 2003 winner of the Mr. Christie Book Award Seal; included in VOYA's ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List and
shorlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year.

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The shortlisted titles for the Blue Peter Book Awards are:

The Book I Couldn?t Put Down
Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde (Egmont)
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan)
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale (Scholastic)
Stealing Stacey by Lynne Reid Banks (Collins)
When Mum Threw Out the Telly by E F Smith (Orchard Books)

The Best Book with Facts in it
Brilliant Brits: Shakespeare written and illustrated by Richard Brassey (Orion)
Who is Emily Davison? by Claudia Fitzherbert (Short Books)
I Spy: Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwaite (Collins)
Journey into the Arctic by Bryan and Cherry Alexander (OUP)
The Ultimate Book Guide edited by Daniel Hahn (A and C Black)

The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud
Atticus the Storyteller?s 100 Greek Myths by Lucy Coates, illustrated by Anthony Lewis (Orion)
Man on the Moon written and illustrated by Simon Bartram (Templar)
Quiet! written by Paul Bright, illustrated by Guy Parker Rees (Little Tiger Press)
The Smartest Giant in Town written by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler
The Woman Who Won Things written by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Katharine McEwen (Walker Books)

The Judging Panel
Elizabeth Attenborough - Formerly Publishing Director, Puffin Books, now Children?s - Book Consultant
Liz Barker - Current Blue Peter presenter
Lucy Lethbridge - Journalist, writer and previous winner of a Blue Peter - Book Award for Ada Lovelace (Short Books)
Richard Marson- Editor, Blue Peter
Nick Sharratt - Illustrator and previous winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year with Eat Your Peas! (Red Fox)

The Judging Process
The group of adult judges decide on a shortlist from which the Young Judges select their category winners and the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year.