CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2007
(information from Andrea Deakin)
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
Melanie Watt :Scaredy Squirrel : Kids Can Press
Scaredy Squirrel introduces us to a sympathetic little character who has so many fears that they prevent him from leaving the security of his home in a nut tree. Melanie Watt's visual humour is always sympathetic while being funny as she explores the little squirrel's dilemma. Scaredy's final courageous leap beyond his tree is accompanied by a flap that sends him from the confines of the book and his fear into the unknown.
Honour Books
Barbara Reid: Fox Walked Alone: Scholastic Press
Julie Mostad: When You Were Small: Simply Read Books
Young Adult Book Award
William Bell: The Blue Helmet: Doubleday Canada
Lee has been caught breaking and entering, a job done for a local gang. He has only one chance to rehabilitate himself when he is sent to live with his Aunt Reena. Through her influence and those around him in the community Lee begins, slowly but styeadily, to take respondibility for his actions and move out more positively into the community.
Honour Books:
Hadley Dyer : Johnny Kellock Died Today : HarperCollins
Carrie Mac: The Droughtlanders : Orca Publishing
CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
Hadley Dyer: Johnny Kellock Died Today : HarperCollins
Honour Books:
Tim Wynne-Jones: Rex Zero and the End of the World: Groundwood Books
Deborah Ellis : I am a Taxi : Groundwood Books
Awards: May 2007 Archives
May 26: Guardian Children's Book Prize Shortlist | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
The longlist for this year's Guardain Prize:
The Boyhood of Burglar Bill by Allan Ahlberg
Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher
The Falconer's Knot by Mary Hoffman
Fearless by Tim Lott
The Penalty by Mal Peet
The Truth Sayer by Sally Prue
Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire by Andy Stanton
Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
The winner, who will receive a cheque for £1,500, will be announced in the Guardian on September 28.
This year's judges are Philip Reeve, who won last year with A Darkling Plain; Linda Newbery, winner of this year's Costa children's book of the year with Set in Stone; and Eleanor Updale, creator of the Montmorency novels.
City Writer Vies For Book Prize (from Oxford Mail)
Oxford artist and writer Mini Grey is in the running for an innovative £1,000 prize for her children's picture book Traction Man Is Here. Children from 14 primary schools in Dundee will pick the winner of four books shortlisted for the City of Discovery Picture Book Award. Year 6 pupils will read the stories to younger children who have just started school, analyse their reactions and draw up reports. Both groups of youngsters will vote. The other contenders are Dan and Diesel by Charlotte Hudson & Lindsey Gardiner Dig the Dog by Alison Maloney & Maddy McClellan and I'm Special I'm Me by Ann Meek & Sarah MassiniThe winner will be announced on Thursday, June 7.
Another one that seems to have slipped past me:
The Branfrod Boase Shortlist
Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer, edited by Venetia Gosling, Simon & Schuster
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd, edited and published by David Fickling
Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher, edited by Anne McNeil, published by Hodder
Beast by Ally Kennen, edited by Marion Lloyd, published by Marion Lloyd/Scholastic
The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke by Sian Pattenden, edited by Aurea Carpenter, published by Short Books
You’re a bad man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton, edited by Leah Thaxton, published by Egmont
Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma, edited by Charlie Sheppard, published by Random House
The judging panel included Nicolette Jones, writer and critic, Claudia Mody, fiction buyer for Waterstones, Annie Everall of Derbyshire Libraries and Frances Hardinge, who won last year for her debut novel, Fly by Night.
The winner will be announced at an award ceremony on Thursday, 28th June at Walker Books in London.
This was announced Monday. Apologies for the delay:
Dublin born author, John Boyne won the Bisto Book of the Year ’06/’07 for his book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The results of the seventeenth Bisto Book of the Year Awards were announced on Monday, 14 May 2007 at a ceremony in No.6 Kildare Street, Dublin.
John was presented with the newly commissioned Bisto Book of the Year Trophy and a cheque for E10,000 by Senator David Norris and Chairperson of the Judging Panel, Mary Shine Thompson.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is John's first book written for children and tells the story of a nine year old boy struggling to understand what is happening around him in Auschwitz during World War II. The novel has been shortlisted for many literary awards including the British Books Awards.
This year’s Eilís Dillon Award went to Siobhan Dowd, author of A Swift Pure Cry. Siobhan was presented with a specially commissioned glass sculpture and a cheque for E3,000.
Three CBI Bisto Honour Awards (E2,000 & framed certificate) were also presented to:
Oliver Jeffers, author and illustrator of The Incredible Book Eating Boy, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne for Hurlamaboc and Siobhán Parkinson for Something Invisible.
Also shortlisted for this year’s awards were
Jon Berkely for The Palace of Laughter
Eoin Colfer for Artemis Fowl & the Lost Colony
illustrator P.J. Lynch for A Christmas Carol
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh for An Táin
and Kate Thompson for The Fourth Horseman.
Here is the shortlist for the 2007 CLPE Poetry Award:
Chrissie Gittins: I Don’t Want an Avocado for an Uncle, illustrated by Kev Adamson, Rabbit Hole Publications £5.99 9780954328818
Julie Johnstone (editor): The Thing That Mattered Most. Scottish Poems for Children, illustrated by Iain McIntosh, Scottish PoetryLibrary/Black & White Publishing £6.99 9781845020958
Tony Mitton: My Hat and All That, illustrated by Sue Heap, Corgi £3.99 9780440867258
Gaby Morgan (editor): Fairy Poems, illustrated by Matilda Harrison, Macmillan £5.99 97840508558
Jackie Morris (compiler and illustrator): The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems, Barefoot Books £14.99 9781905236558
John Siddique: Don’t Wear It On Your Head, Don’t Stick It Down Your Pants, Peepal Tree Press £4.95 9781845230562
The judges are Ian McMillan and Fiona Waters, and the judging panel is chaired by Margaret Meek Spencer.
The winner will be announced at a ceremony at CLPE on Wednesday June 13th 2007.
The CLPE Poetry Award, for a book of poetry for children, was launched by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education in 2003. Previous winners have included John Agard, Grace Nichols and Roger McGough. The Award is sponsored by Mr and Mrs Pye’s Charitable Foundation.
Best New Zealand Children's Books Announced
The overall winner was The Illustrated History of the South Pacific by Marcia Stenson, which was named the book of the year, as well as the best non-fiction book.
The junior fiction category was won by Thor's Tale by Janice Marriott. Her book tells the story of a meeting between a boy on a Norwegian whaling station on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, and the crew of the British exploration ship Endurance.
Kiss Kiss Yuck Yuck by Kyle Mewburn, won the award for best picture book and the children's choice award. It was illustrated by Ali Teo and John O'Reilly.
The best first book was The Three Fishing Brother Gruff, a re-working of the three billy goats gruff story, by Ben Galbraith.
Royal Society Science Book Junior Winner
Can you feel the force?, by Richard Hammond, published by Dorling Kindersley
The President of the Royal Society, Martin Rees announced these titles as the Winners of the Junior Prize and the General Prize respectively, at an award ceremony held last night at the Royal Society in London.
The Junior Prize is given to the best book written for young people aged up to 14 years old.
Can you feel the force? uses physics to answer questions such as, ‘can you lie on a bed of nails?, ‘what’s inside an atom?’ and ‘can you walk on custard?’. It also provides an accessible and entertaining introduction to some of the great scientists, such as Newton and Galileo, and outlines simple experiments to try at home.
Commenting on Can you feel the Force?, Anna aged 13 and one of the Junior Judges said: “It was good because it had unusual facts that you wouldn’t know from science lessons.”
Andrew aged 11 said: “The illustrations were good but my favourite bit was the way of walking on custard.”
Adele aged 11 said: “I didn’t vote for it just because Richard Hammond wrote it, it truly was the best.”
Eleanor Updale, chair of the junior judging panels said: “This instantly appealing book traces the roots of physics to the dawn of civilization, but concentrates on the way physical forces are at work in all our lives today. With clear illustrations, practical experiments, and well-paced text, it makes an interest in science look like fun – and above all, normal.”
The other books short listed for this year’s Junior prize were:
· How nearly everything was invented by the brainwaves devised and illustrated by Ralph and Lisa Lazar, and written by Jilly MacLeod.
· It’s true! Space turns you into spaghetti by Heather Catchpole and Vanessa Woods (Allen and Unwin)
· KFK Natural Disasters by Andrew Langley (Kingfisher Knowledge)
· My Body Book by Mick Manning and Brita Granström (Franklin Watts)
· Science Investigations: Electricity by John Farndon (Wayland)
SLA - School Librarian of the Year Award
The School Librarian Of The Year Honour List will be announced today by Michael Morpurgo at the Tower of London, with the winner selected later in the month.
