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Deakin Newsletter, July-August

Andrea Deakin has been such a generous supporter of ACHUKA over the years, regulalrly supplying me with information about Canadian awards and frequently sending me titles that she knows I will be interested in seeing, or younger family members will enjoy, that I was very disappointed to discover today her recent visit to London passed by without an opportunity for us to meet.

As ever, I commend the latest issue of her 'newsletter'.

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards


Children's Picture Book Award

Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion - Illustrator: Renne Benoit ( author Jane Barclay) : Tundra Books


Young Adult/Middle Reader Award

Vanishing Girl, The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Third Case - Shane Peacock: Tundra Books

Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children

Nancy Hartry: Watching Jimmy (Tundra Books)

Honour Books:

Shane Peacock: Vanishing Girl (Tundra Books)
R.J.Anderson: Faerie Rebels - Spell Hunter (HarperCollins)



Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award

Lesley Livingstone: Wonderous Strange (HarperCollins)

Honour Books:

Carrie Mac: The Gryphon Project (Puffin Books)
Arthur Slade: The Hunchback Assignments (HarperCollins)

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards, Shortlists

Picture Book

Barbara Reid: Perfect Snow (North Winds Press/Scholastic)
Marie-Louise Gay: When Stella was Very, Very Small (Groundwood Press)
Illustrator Renne Benoit, author Jane Barclay: Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion (Tundra Books)
Melanie Watt: Scaredy Squirrel at Night (Kids Can Press)
Irene Luxbacher ; author Andrew Larsen: The Imaginary Garden (Kids Can Press)


Young Adult/ Middle Reader Book Award Category

Shane Peacock: Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes - His Third Case (Tundra Books)
Jill Maclean: Present Tense of Prinny Murphy (Fitzhenry and Whiteside)
Jennifer Cowan: Earthgirl (Groundwood Books)
Anna Kerz: The Mealworm Diaries (Orca Publishing)
Kelly Armstrong: The Awakening (Doubleday)

Some recent Canadian children's book awards:

Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Illustrators Award

Barbara Reid : Perfect Snow (North Winds Press/Scholastic)

Honour Books:-
Illustrator Nicolas Debon, author Colleen Sydor: Timmerman was Here (Tundra Books)
Illustrator Kady Macdonald Denton, author Frieda Wishinsky: You're mean, Lily Jean: (North Winds Press/Scholastic)



Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award 2009

Oleg Lipchenko: Lewis Carroll- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Tundra Books)

McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young People Award

Younger category:
Colleen Sydor, Illustrated Nicolas Debon: Timmerman was Here (Tundra Books)

Older category:
Eva Wiseman: Puppet (Tundra Books)

Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize

Carrie Mac: The Gryphon Project (Puffin Books)

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize

Frieda Wishinsky, Illustrated Dean Griffiths: Maggie Can't Wait (Fitzhenry and Whiteside)

Cumulative Website Listing

Here is the cumulative featured website listing that was missing from the most recent Deakin Newsletter... worth bookmarking...

Deakin Newsletter - Spring 2010

Great as usual, though I miss the normal cumulative list of bookmarked websites..

Andrea Deakin Dewlsetter November-December 2009

a full and richly informative edition, as always

Governor-General's Awards:

Children's Literature: Text

English: Caroline Pignat - Greener Grass: The Famine Years (Red Deer Press/ Fitzhenry and Whiteside)
French: Herve Bouchard - Harvey (Les Editions de la Pasteque)

Children's Literature: Illustration
English : Jirina Marton - Bella's Tree : text Jane Russell (Groundwood Books)
French: Janice Nadeau - Harvey text Herve Bouchard (Les Editions de las Pasteque)

This is the first time First one book ( in the French list) has won both text and illustration awards.

TD Canadian Children's Literature award
Nicola I. Campbell, illustrated Kim Le Fave - Shin-Chi's Canoe (Groundwood Books)

Children's Literature-Text

Shelley Hrditschka : Sister Wife (Orca Book Publishers)

Sharon Jennings : Home Free (Second Story Press)

Caroline Pignat : Greener Grass: The Famine Years (Red Deer Press/ Fitzhenry and Whiteside)

Robin Stevenson : A Thousand Shades of Blue (Orca Book Publishers)

Tim Wynne-Jones : The Uninvited (Candlewick Press/ Random House)

Children's Literature- Illustration

Rachel Berman : text Tim Beiser: Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog (Tundra Books)

Irene Luxbacher: test Andrew Larsen : The Imaginary Garden (Kids Can Press)

Jirina Marton: text Janet Russell : Bella's Tree (HarperCollins)

Luc Melanson: text Olivier Ka, translated Helen Mixter: My Great Big Mamma (Groundwood Books)

Ningeokuluk Teevee: translated Nina Manning-Toonoo: Alego (Groundwood Books)

Deakin Newsletter

Deakin Archive

TD Canadian Children's Literature Award

Death in the Air
(The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Second Case)
Shane Peacock : Published by Tundra Books

Libertad
Alma Fullerton : Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Shin-chi's Canoe
Nicola L.Campbell: Illustrated: Kim Le Fave : Groundwood Books

Thing Thing
Cary Fagan : illustrated Nicolas Debon : Tundra Books

Word Nerd
Susin Nielsen : Tundra Books

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Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

Chicken, Pig, Cow
written and illustrated: Ruth Ohi : Annick Press

It's Moving Day
Pamela Hickman: illustrated Geraldo Valerio
Kids Can Press

Mattland
Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert: illustrated Dusan Petricic
Annick Press

Shin-chi's Canoe
Nicola I. Campbell : illustrated Kim LeFave
Groundwood Books

Thing Thing
Cary Fagan: Illustrated Nicholas Debon
Tundra Books

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Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction

The Bite of the Mango
Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland
Annick Press

Inuksuk Journey: An Artist at the Top of the World
Written and illustrated: Mary Wallace
Maple Tree Press

No Girls allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men fior Love, Freedom and Adventure
Susah Hughes: Illustrated Willow Dawson
Kids Can Press

One Hen: How One Small Loan Can Make a Difference
Katie Smith Milway: illustrated Eugenie Fernandez
Kids Can Press

Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns
Elizabeth MacLeod:
Annick Press

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Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

Ancient Ocean Blues
Jack Mitchell
Tundra Books

Apprentice's Masterpiece: A Story of Mediaeval Spain
Melanie Little
Annick Press

Child of Dandelions
Shenaaz Nanjj
Second Story Press

Greener Grass: The Famine Years
Caroline Pignat
Red Deer Press

The Landing
John Ibbotson
KIds Can Press

information gratefully received from Andrea Deakin

Deakin Newsletter May-June 209

Excellent, as always.

Kenneth Oppel Feature - The Times

Canada has given the world a growing number of great adult novelists, from Margaret Atwood to Robertson Davies, but until recently no children's authors. Kenneth Oppel, the boyish-looking man sitting opposite me in a London café, is the first. His Silverwing trilogy about a heroic bat, Shade, and how he saves his colony from the clutches of an evil vampire, must be one of the most eccentric and original hero tales yet, selling more than a million copies in America. Now the eagerly awaited third novel for 11+ involving the heroic Matt Cruse and his sweetheart, Kate, is about to be published in Starclimber...

Oppel the first great Canadian children's novelist??
Anyone care to challenge?

CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION:
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrators Award

Winner
Mattland Illustrated by Dusan Petricic, author: Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert (Annick Press)

Honour Books
Thing Thing Illustrated Nicolas Debon, author Carl Fagan (Tundra Books)
Jenneli's Dance Illustrated Chris Auchter, author Elizabeth Denny : Theytus Books

Book of the Year for Children Award

Winner
Anne Laurel Carter - The Shepherd's Grandaughter (Groundwood Books)

Honour Books
Alma Fullerton - Libertad (Fitzhenry and Whiteside)
Kenneth Oppel Starclimber (HarperCollins)

Young Adult Canadian Book Award

Winner
Allan Stratton Chandra's Wars (HarperCollins)

Honour Books
Marthe Jocelyn Would You (Random House)
Melanie Little The Apprentice's Masterpiece (Annick Press)

2009 Arthur Ellis Awards ( for crime fiction)

Finalists
Vicki Grant Res Judicata (Orca Publishing)
Susan Juby Getting the Girl (Harper Trophy Canada)
Elizabeth MacLeod Royal Murder ( Annick Press)
Nora McClintock Dead Silence (Scholastic)
Sharon McKay War Brothers (Penguin Group Canada)

information provided by Andrea Deakin