Awards: September 2007 Archives

Guardian Prize Awarded This Week

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The shortlist | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books

The winner of the Guardian children's fiction prize will be announced this Thursday evening.

In announcing the shortlist of four some three weeks ago, Julia Eccleshare wrote:

The judges of this year's Guardian children's fiction prize have bucked the trend for "crossover" fiction by shortlisting four books that are specifically and unequivocally written for children....

The shortlisted titles are:

Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman

The Truth Sayer by Sally Prue

The Falconer's Knot by Mary Hoffman

Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine

Canadian Award Shortlists

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TD Canadian Children's Literature Award ($20,000)


Jan Thornhill: I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life and Death : Maple Tree Press

Hadley Dyer: Johnny Kellock Died Today: HarperCollins Canada

Sarah Ellis: Odd Man Out : Groundwood Books

Linda Bailey: illustrated Bill Slavin: Stanley's Wild Ride : Kids Can Press

Tim Wynne-Jones : Rex Zero and the End of the World: Groundwood Books




Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction ($10,000)


Barbara Greenwood: Factory Girl: Kids Can Press

Celia Godkin : Fire! The Renewal of a Forest : Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Jane Springer : Genocide: Groundwood Books

Jan Thornhill: I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life and Death : Maple Tree Press

Herb Shoveller :Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together: Kids Can Press




Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award ( $10,000)


Ellen Scwartz : Illustrated Sima Elizabeth Shefrin : Abby's Birds : Tradewind Books

Melanie Watt : Augustine : Kids Can Press

Barbara Reid: Fox Walked Alone: North Winds Press/Scholastic

Melanie Watt: Scaredy Squirrel : Kids Can Press

Sara O'Leary : Illustrated Julie Morstad : When You Were Small: Simply Read Books

Catherine Jameson :Illustrated Julie Flett Zoe and the Fawn : Theytus Books



Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People ( $1,000)


Eva Wiseman : Kanada : Tundra Books

Connie Brummel Crook : Meyer's Rebellion : Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Janet Lunn : A Rebel's Daughter: the 1837 Rebellion Diary of Arabella Stevenson : Scholastic Canada

Penny Draper: Terror at Turtle Mountain : Coteau Books

John Wilson : Where Soldiers Lie : Key Porter Books

Shortlist

The shortlist for the 2007 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books has now been unveiled.

Kelpies Winner

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The 2007 Kelpies Prize winner was Hox by Annemarie Allan. The book will be published in October.

The deadline for submissions for the 2008 Prize (for books set wholly, or mainy, in contmporary Scotland for a 9 - 12 readership) is February 29th 2008.

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