The Canadian Booksellers Association has announced the 2008 Libris Awards. And the big news of the awards is that Melanie Watt, author of Scaredy Squirrel was recognized as both Children’s Author and Children’s Illustrator of the year! If you haven’t read the Scaredy Squirrel series, you are missing out!
Derek Landy has won the Red House Children’s Book Award for his wonderful novel, Skulduggery Pleasant. The Red House Award is the only British children’s book award selected entirely by children themselves.
Other category winners are Penguin by Polly Dunbar and Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
The longlist for the 2008 Guardian Children’s Fiction award has been announced (thanks to Big A little a for the news!) Here are the contenders:
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce (I’ve adored all of his books so far, so I’ve eagerly added this to my reading list. Releasing in the U.S. on July 30th.)
The Goldsmith’s Daughter by Tanya Landman (Not yet released in U.S.)
Bad Blood by Rhiannon Lassiter
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd (Coming to the U.S. in September 2008)
Before I Die by Jenny Downham (This has been on my list for awhile. Gotta move it closer to the top!)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Knife That Killed Me by Anthony McGowan (Not yet released in U.S.)
Mystery Writers of America have announced the 2008 Edgar Award Winners. Here are the juvenile and teen ones:
Best Juvenile: The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh
Best Young Adult: Rat Life by Tedd Arnold
I love seeing who has won the Jane Addam’s Children’s Book Awards because the focus of the award is so near and dear to me. Books on the list “effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence.”
Here are the 2008 Winners:
The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCully.
We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimmer.
And the honors:
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge.
Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins.
Eljah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Birmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston Weatherford.
The CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist for 2008 has been announced:
Gatty’s Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Ruby Red by Linzi Alex Glass
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
Apache by Tanya Landman
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine (published in the U.S. as Me, the Missing and the Dead)
Remember, this is a British award, so some of the books aren’t released in the U.S. yet.
Has anyone got any favorites? I haven’t read any of these!
Here they are! Hot off the presses (really hot off of an announcement on the CCBC-Net list). They are not on the Notables website yet.
Poetry and Drama
Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillons.
Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman.
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo Poems by Linda Sue Park.
Good Masters, Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz.
Historical and Realistic Fiction
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth.
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford. (My review)
The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy.
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. (My review)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. (My review)
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth.
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson.
Fantasy/Folklore
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal by Paul Fleischman. (My review)
The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins.
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon.
Information/Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
Muckrakers by Ann Bausum.
How to Write Your Life Story by Ralph Fletcher.
Pass It Down: Five Picture Book Families Make Their Mark by Leonard S. Marcus.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis. (My review)
Helen Keller: Her Life in Pictures by George Sullivan.
Picture Books
Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones by Gene Barretta.
Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett. (My review)
The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington. (My review)
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge.
The Zoo by S. Lee.
When the Shadbush Blooms by Carla Messinger and Susan Katz. (My review)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan. (My review)
Chester by Melanie Watt. (My review)
Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild.
Got any favorites of your own on the list?
Here they are! Hot off the presses (really hot off of an announcement on the CCBC-Net list). They are not on the Notables website yet.
Poetry and Drama
Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillons.
Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman.
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo Poems by Linda Sue Park.
Good Masters, Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz.
Historical and Realistic Fiction
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth.
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford. (My review)
The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy.
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. (My review)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. (My review)
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth.
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson.
Fantasy/Folklore
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal by Paul Fleischman. (My review)
The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins.
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon.
Information/Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
Muckrakers by Ann Bausum.
How to Write Your Life Story by Ralph Fletcher.
Pass It Down: Five Picture Book Families Make Their Mark by Leonard S. Marcus.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis. (My review)
Helen Keller: Her Life in Pictures by George Sullivan.
Picture Books
Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones by Gene Barretta.
Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett. (My review)
The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington. (My review)
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge.
The Zoo by S. Lee.
When the Shadbush Blooms by Carla Messinger and Susan Katz. (My review)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan. (My review)
Chester by Melanie Watt. (My review)
Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild.
Got any favorites of your own on the list?
Here they are! Hot off the presses (really hot off of an announcement on the CCBC-Net list). They are not on the Notables website yet.
Poetry and Drama
Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillons.
Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman.
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo Poems by Linda Sue Park.
Good Masters, Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz.
Historical and Realistic Fiction
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth.
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford. (My review)
The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy.
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. (My review)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. (My review)
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth.
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson.
Fantasy/Folklore
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal by Paul Fleischman. (My review)
The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins.
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon.
Information/Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
Muckrakers by Ann Bausum.
How to Write Your Life Story by Ralph Fletcher.
Pass It Down: Five Picture Book Families Make Their Mark by Leonard S. Marcus.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis. (My review)
Helen Keller: Her Life in Pictures by George Sullivan.
Picture Books
Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones by Gene Barretta.
Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett. (My review)
The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington. (My review)
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge.
The Zoo by S. Lee.
When the Shadbush Blooms by Carla Messinger and Susan Katz. (My review)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan. (My review)
Chester by Melanie Watt. (My review)
Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild.
Got any favorites of your own on the list?
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