Awards: November 2005 Archives

The Reading Association of Ireland have announced the shortlist for their prestigious children's book awards. Six of the seven books on the shortlist are published by the O’Brien Press.

RAI established the award to celebrate children’s literature written and published in Ireland. The award is made every second year and presented to the authors/illustrators/publishers of outstanding books for children and adolescents published in Ireland. The 2005 award-winners will be announced on 1st December.

The shortlist is as follows:

Epic - Conor Kostick O'Brien Press
The Gods and Their Machines - Oisín Mc Gann O'Brien Press
The Harvest Tide Project - Oisín Mc Gann - O'Brien Press
Wings Over Delft - Aubrey Flegg - O'Brien Press
Something Beginning with"p" - Edited by Seamus Cashman - O'Brien Press Times
All About Gaelic Football - Gerry Grogan and Tom Fitzpatrick - O'Brien Press
Amach - Alan Titley - An Gúm

CBBC Newsround | UK | Michael Morpurgo wins book award

Michael Morpurgo has been announced as the 2005 Blue Peter Book Award winner. The popular children's author was awarded the top prize for his book Private Peaceful which also won the "book I couldn't put down" category. ...

Michael Morprugo's latest book is I Believe In Unicorns:

Governor General's Award for Children's Literature 2005

Text

Pamela Porter: The Crazy Man (Groundwood/House of Anansi Press)

The award for text went to Pamela Porter for The Crazy Man, published by Groundwood Books/House of Anansi. It is set on a south Saskatchewan wheat farm in 1965. When Emaline chases after her runaway dog, her father accidentally runs over her leg, leaving her with a permanent disability. Grief-stricken, her father shoots the dog and abandons the family. Her mother hires a patient from the nearby mental hospital to help with the farm. The small town's prejudice towards Angus almost ends in tragedy; but Angus is a healer who helps Emaline come to terms with her injury and with her father's abandonment. The story is told in free verse.

Illustration

Rob Gonsalves: Imagine a Day text by Sarah L.Thompson (Simon and Schuster)

The award for illustration goes to Rob Gonsalves for his paintings for Imagine A Day, published by Atheneum/Simon and Schuster. His surreal paintings for Sarah L.Thompson's text are a voyage into the realm of the imagination which takes the viewer from the realm of the everyday into that of the possible, allowing children to expand their view of the world around them.
Rob Gonsalves paintings in the 2003 publication, Imagine a Night, were finalists for the Governor-General's Award that year.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Hornby, Rushdie in Whitbread race

Whitbread Children's book shortlist

Frank Cottrell Boyce - Framed
Geraldine McCaughrean - The White Darkness
Hilary McKay - Permanent Rose
Kate Thompson - The New Policeman

Independent Online Edition > News

An old-fashioned Gothic story for teenagers has beaten Julie Burchill's book about lesbian love to win a prize dedicated to writing for young people. Sarah Singleton, 39, a local newspaper journalist and mother of two daughters, has won the £1,500 Booktrust Teenage Prize 2005 with her first novel for children, Century.

See this Bookheads page about the winning book and author...

The Norma Fleck Award for Non-Fiction, worth $10,000, has been given to Shari Graydon for In Your Face (Annick Press) a critical look at the culture of beauty throughout the ages.It is also a guide for teens to the modern culture of beauty and the workings of the beauty industry. It provides the information and encourages young people to make their own decisions about the value of the advertising aimed at them.

Publishing News - News Page

THE RED HOUSE Children’s Book Award, which claims to be the only major UK book prize entirely voted for by children, is moving to the Hay Festival next year. The winner will be announced at the Festival on 2 June 2006. Marianne Adley, Coordinator of the Award, said: “The relocation of the award ceremony to the Hay Festival heralds an exciting new era for all of us involved in promoting children’s books.”

One of the reasons given for the move is that it will give attending children the opportunity to take part in a fullscale literary festival. What this will amount to in practice is a little hard to envisage, and it may well be that children and their parents will regret the lost opportunity of having a daytrip or weekend in London, where attendance at the award could be mixed with some completely different form of leisure. Certainly, getting to the award will present attendees with significant travel issues. How many people will be able to get there and back home in one day? I couldn't, for a start.

NewsFromRussia.Com Marthe Jocelyn wins Canadian Children's Literature Award

Marthe Jocelyn, a writer who has also designed clothes and toys for kids, has won the first-ever TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for most distinguished book of the year. Jocelyn, who lives in Stratford, Ont., received the prize for Mable Riley, a story of a young girl and her sister living in Ontario in 1901...