CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2007
(information from Andrea Deakin)
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
Melanie Watt :Scaredy Squirrel : Kids Can Press
Scaredy Squirrel introduces us to a sympathetic little character who has so many fears that they prevent him from leaving the security of his home in a nut tree. Melanie Watt's visual humour is always sympathetic while being funny as she explores the little squirrel's dilemma. Scaredy's final courageous leap beyond his tree is accompanied by a flap that sends him from the confines of the book and his fear into the unknown.
Honour Books
Barbara Reid: Fox Walked Alone: Scholastic Press
Julie Mostad: When You Were Small: Simply Read Books
Young Adult Book Award
William Bell: The Blue Helmet: Doubleday Canada
Lee has been caught breaking and entering, a job done for a local gang. He has only one chance to rehabilitate himself when he is sent to live with his Aunt Reena. Through her influence and those around him in the community Lee begins, slowly but styeadily, to take respondibility for his actions and move out more positively into the community.
Honour Books:
Hadley Dyer : Johnny Kellock Died Today : HarperCollins
Carrie Mac: The Droughtlanders : Orca Publishing
CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
Hadley Dyer: Johnny Kellock Died Today : HarperCollins
Honour Books:
Tim Wynne-Jones: Rex Zero and the End of the World: Groundwood Books
Deborah Ellis : I am a Taxi : Groundwood Books
Canada: May 2007 Archives
Much to ACHUKA's pleasure, Andrea Deakin's newsletter for May 2007 reverts to its former format.
Read especially the feature on Tundra Books' 40th anniversary.
This May Tundra Books is celebrating its 40th Anniversary. In 1967 May Cutler, an innovative lover of the arts and a Montreal-based writer and editor, founded a company devoted to creating the best possible books for Canadian children. By the time I had started reviewing, in March 1971, the company had already made its mark with the excellence of its production.
