Awards: June 2007 Archives

Highland News and North Star: Schoolkids name their top book titles

YOUNG readers in Ross-shire have been voting for their favourite books of the year. Along with children from all over the Highlands, the youngsters have all been busy reading, reviewing and voting for their top titles for Highland Council's Children's Book Awards. And at a ceremony held in the Strathpeffer Pavilion last week, the award winners were announced.

Sharing the top prize for the picture book category was Ed Vere, for The Getaway, and Niamh Sharkey for her book I'm a Happy Hugglewug.
Winner of the eight-plus category was Richard Hamilton, with Ghostboy and the Moonbalm Treasure, and the 12-plus award went to Tim Bowler for Frozen Fire.

Tale of death and depression wins children's award-Arts & Entertainment-Books-Children-TimesOnline

Carnegie & Greenaway winners (apologies for late posting)

CARNEGIE MEDAL
Just In Case by Meg Rosoff

It's no secret that I found Meg Rosoff's first novel deeply flawed and disagreeable in its use of armed invasion and violence as a backdrop. Her second novel, which has now won the Carnegie Medal, is clever but cold. Clearly I am in a minority (possibly of one) in finding that Rosoff's voice does not speak to me.

GREENAWAY MEDAL
The Adventures Of The Dish and the Spoon by Mini Grey

I'm a huge fan of Grey's work, and delighted by this choice.

Carnegie quick to realise Pullman's potential-Arts & Entertainment-Books-Children-TimesOnline

Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, the first volume of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has been voted the “Carnegie of Carnegies” in a poll to celebrate 70 years of the award now called the CILIP Carnegie Medal (from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals; the winner is chosen annually by a panel of librarians). Pullman received 40 per cent of the public’s online vote; his nearest rival, Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden, received 16 per cent...

The Greenaway of Greenaways was Dogger by Shirley Hughes

http://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/celebration/winners.php

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards

This announcement (June 4th) passed me by a coule of days ago and hence, annoyingly, was not included in today's eLetter update (now active again after a brief hibernation).

Emily Gravett's Wolves is one of the two Picture Book 'honor' titles. ACHUKA can only applaud and hear-hear the selection of The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing as the winner in the Fiction and Poetry section

Fiction and Poetry:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (Candlewick) by M. T. Anderson
Picture Book: Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories (Porter/Roaring Brook) written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Nonfiction: The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr (Groundwood) written and illustrated by Nicolas Debon

Read on for details of the honor books and the judging panel....

Charlotte Observer | 06/04/2007 | Quill Awards announce 2007 nominees

Here are the shortlists in the relavant categories of the Quill Awards:

Children's Picture Books

• "The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon," by Mini Grey (Alfred A. Knopf).

• "Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy," by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser (HarperCollins).

• "Flotsam," David Wiesner (Clarion Books).

• "Orange Pear Apple Bear," Emily Gravett (Simon and Schuster).

• "Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship," by Isabella and Craig Hatkoff, Dr. Paula Kahumbu, photos by Peter Greste (Scholastic Press).

Children's Chapter/Middle Grade

• "Clementine," by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee (Hyperion Books).

• "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," by Jeff Kinney (Abrams/Amulet).

• "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press).

• "Pick Me Up," by Jeremy Leslie and David Roberts (DK Children's Books).

• "The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3)," by Rick Riordan (Miramax Books).

Young Adult/Teen

• "American Born Chinese," by Gene Luen Yang (First Second Books).

• "The Green Glass Sea," by Ellen Klages (Viking).

• "Incantation," by Alice Hoffman (Little, Brown and Company).

• "Life as We Knew It," by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt Books).

• "Sold," by Patricia McCormick (Hyperion Books).

The 2007 Quill Awards will be presented on Oct. 22. More than 6,000 booksellers and librarians will vote for the winners in the 18 categories. The winners will be announced on Sept. 10 and then readers will be able to cast their votes via quillsvote.com for "The Book of the Year."

IBBY has announced the candidates for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2008.

• Argentina: Author: Beatriz María Ana Ferro; Illustrator: Isol Misenta
• Australia: Author: Jackie French; Illustrator: Shaun Tan
• Austria: Author: Lene Mayer-Skumanz; Illustrator: Linda Wolfsgruber
• Belgium: Author: Anne Provoost; Illustrator: Kitty Crowther
• Brazil: Author: Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós; Illustrator: Rui de Oliveira
• Canada: Author: Brian Doyle; Illustrator: Pierre Pratt
• China: Author: Qin Wenjun
• Croatia: Illustrator: Svjetlan Junakóvic
• Cyprus: Author: Kika Pulcheriou
• Czech Republic: Author: Iva Procházková; Illustrator: Adolf Born
• Denmark: Author: Bjarne Reuter; Illustrator: Lilian Brøgger
• Egypt: Author: Fatima El Maadoul
• Finland: Author: Irmelin Sandman Lilius; Illustrator: Virpi Talvitie
• France: Author: Marie Desplechin; Illustrator: Claude Ponti
• Germany: Author: Peter Härtling; Illustrator: Jutta Bauer
• Greece: Author: Voula Mastori; Illustrator: Vassilis Papatsarouchas
• Iceland: Author: Gudrun Helgadottir
• Ireland: Author: Kath Thompson; Illustrator: Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
• Italy: Author: Mino Milani; Illustrator: Roberto Innocenti
• Japan: Author: Shuntaro Tanikawa; Illustrator: Akiko Hayashi
• Lithuania: Illustrator: Kestutis Kasparavicius
• Mexico: Illustrator: Mauricio Gómez Morín
• Netherlands: Author: Guus Kuijer; Illustrator: The Tjong-Khing
• Romania: Author: Iuliu Ratiu; Illustrator: Stan Done
• Russia: Illustrator: Nickolay Popov
• Serbia: Author: Dragana Litricin-Dunic
• Slovak Republic: Author: Ján Navrátil; Illustrator: Olga Bajusová
• Slovenia: Illustrator: Lila Prap
• South Africa: Author: Beverley Naidoo; Illustrator: Piet Grobler
• Spain: Author: María Asun Landa; Illustrator: Ulises Wensell
• Sweden: Barbro Lindgren; Illustrator: Eva Eriksson
• Switzerland: Author: Jürg Schubiger; Illustrator: Hannes Binder
• Turkey: Author: Ayla Çinaroglu; Illustrator: Nazan Erkmen
• United Kingdom: Author: David Almond; Illustrator: Jan Pienkowski
• USA: Author: Lloyd Alexander; Illustrator: David Wiesner
The elected Chair of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury, Zohreh
Ghaeni (Iran) and Jury members from Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, New
Zealand, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the United States of America, will meet in
March 2008 to select from among these nominations the winners of the 2008 Andersen
Awards. The results will be made public at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Monday,
31 March 2008 and the Awards will be presented to the winners at the 31st IBBY
Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark on 7 September 2008.

Andy Stanton was announced the winner of the 2007 Red House Children’s Book Award at Hay yesterday afteronoN

Overall winner
You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! by Andy Stanton published by Egmont

Books for Younger Children
Who’s in the Loo? by Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds published by Andersen Press

Books for Younger Readers
You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! by Andy Stanton published by Egmont

Books for Older Readers
Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie published by Simon & Schuster