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