Woo-hoo! Award announcements are always exciting, and this is a biggie in Canadian literature for kids. With last week also being Canadian Children’s Book Week, it’s a terrific time to be highlighting lots of good, homegrown stuff.
I’ve been making a big deal of the Blue Spruce and Silver Birch nominees around here, so now let me share all the results with you, direct from the website of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading programme:
held on May 11 and 12, 2011,
at Harbourfront Centre.
The 2011 Blue Spruce™ Award
Ages 4 to 7, Grades Kindergarten to Grade 2
Winner
MY-THINK-A-MA-JINK
Dave Whamond
The 2011 Silver Birch® Award
Ages 7 to 11, Grades 3 – 6
Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders
Kevin Sylvester
Valerie Wyatt & Fred Rix
Winner – Silver Birch® Express
Binky the Space Cat
Ashley Spires
The 2011 Red Maple™ Award
Ages 11 to 15, Grades 7 – 8
Not Suitable for Family Viewing
Vicki Grant
Winner – Non-Fiction
The Bite of the Mango
Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland
The 2011 White Pine™ Award
Grades 9 – 12
The Monkeyface Chronicles
Richard Scarsbrook
Prix Tamarack 2011
French Language Literacy Initiative
La Quête du dernier dodo: Les Adventuresde Cosmo le Dodo
Patrice Racine
Les Dragouilles 2 – Les Bleues de Montréal
Maxim Cyr & Karine Gottot