Awards: May 2008 Archives

Red House Children's Book Award Winners 2008

ACHUKA was away for a couple of days so apologises for the late notice of this result, which was announced yesterday evening (30th June), at the Hay Festival.

The outright winner was

Skulduggery Pleasant byDerek Landy
Category:
Older Readers

Other Category Winners were

Penguin by Polly Dunbar
Category:
Younger Children


Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell
Category:
Younger Readers

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The Children's Book Award was founded in 1980 by author & librarian Pat Thompson and is run by a team of dedicated volunteers from the Federation of Children's Book Groups (FCBG), a registered charity who aims to encourage children to read for pleasure.
The FCBG was set up as a charity by Anne Wood, the originator of the Tellytubbies. They act as an umbrella organisation for local Children's Book Groups all over the UK. The groups organise a variety of activities including author events and other activities that promote the enjoyment of children's books. The Federation also produces numerous specialist book lists, organises National Share-a-Story Month each May and holds an annual conference each spring.
Red House became the Award's sponsor in 2001.
www.redhouse.co.uk
www.fcbg.org.uk

The shortlist for the 2008 CLPE Poetry Award is as follows:

Carol Ann Duffy: The Hat, illustrated by David Whittle, Faber & Faber £9.99

David Harmer: Pirate Poems, illustrated by Matt Buckingham, Macmillan £3.99

Diana Hendry and Hamish Whyte (editors): Poems United. A Commonwealth Anthology, Black & White Publishing £7.99

Jackie Kay: Red Cherry Red, illustrated by Rob Ryan, Bloomsbury £6.99

John Mole: This is the Blackbird, illustrated by Mary Norman, Peterloo Poets £7.95

Sam Taplin (compiler): The Usborne Book of Poetry, illustrated by Kristina Swamer, Usborne £14.99

The judges are Julie Johnstone, Ian McMillan and Fiona Waters, and the judging panel is chaired by Margaret Meek Spencer.

The winner of the 2008 Award will be announced at a ceremony at the South Bank Centre on Tuesday July 1st 2008.

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.

The winner of the 2008 Canadian Jewish Book Award (The Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Youth Literature) is Out of Line: Growing up Soviet by Tina Grimberg (Tundra Books)

The Koffler Centre of the Arts in Toronto, has announced the winners of the 20th anniversary Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards. The Awards celebrate excellence in Canadian writing reflecting Jewish themes and subjects including history, fiction, Yiddish and other fields.

The 2008 winners are:

The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Award in History
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezsö Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
by Anna Porter
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

The Beatrice and Martin Fischer Award in Fiction
A Sharp Intake of Breath
by John Miller
Publisher: The Dundurn Group

The Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Youth Literature
Out of Line: Growing up Soviet
by Tina Grimberg
Publisher: Tundra Books

The Samuel and Rose Cohen Memorial Award in Biography/Memoir
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in
Poland Before the Holocaust
by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Mayer Kirshenblatt
Publisher: University of California Press

The Abe and Fay Bergel Award in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject
Converts, Heretics, and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider
by James Diamond
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

The Abraham and Eve Trapunski Award in Yiddish Literature
Representing the Immigrant Experience: Morris Rosenfeld and the Emergence of Yiddish Literature in America
by Marc Miller
Publisher: Syracuse University Press

The Canadian Jewish News Award in Poetry
Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices
by Ruth Panofsky
Publisher: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.

The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust Memoir and Literature
Bits and Pieces
by Henia Reinhartz
Publisher: The Azrieli Foundation

This was an exceptional year for Canadian books reflecting Jewish themes. Over one hundred submissions were considered by a distinguished jury, chaired by writer Edward Trapunski, along with Cynthia Good, Sara Horowitz, Marjorie Gann, Judy Wolfe, Beatrice Fischer, Adam Fuerstenberg, Judith Ghert, and Dorothy Shoichet.

The Awards will be presented by the Koffler at a special ceremony in Toronto on June 4th at 8:00 PM at the Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. This free event is open to the public and all are welcome. Complete details on the event and all the winners are available at www.kofflerarts.org.

Bisto Award Winners