2011 CLA Book Awards Announced

For the first time in the history of the Canadian Library Association Book Awards one title wins two awards!

Half Brother, written by Kenneth Oppel and published by HarperCollins, wins both the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award and the CLA Young Adult Book Award for 2011!

Read each press release and also learn who won the Honour books for 2011:

• 2011 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
• 2011 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award

The 2011 CLA Book Awards are generously sponsored by Library Service Centre.

Meet the winning authors in Halifax at the Book Awards Reception on Thursday, May 26 from 7-9 pm. Enjoy cocktails, appetizers and light dinner fare while mixing and miggling with the authors and your colleagues! Take home a book of your choice – an amazing evening for $ 30!  Book now at: http://www.cla.ca/conference/2011/

The 2011 CLA Book Awards Reception is graciously sponsored by:

CLA recognizes and thanks the dedicated volunteers who make these prestigous awards such a great success!

Canadian Library Association Book Awards Shortlists

The Canadian Library Association has released the shortlists for its three book awards:

Book of the Year For Children Award

• Plain Kate, by Erin Bow (Scholastic)
• Winter Shadows, by Margaret Buffie (Tundra)
• Burn, by Alma Fullerton (Dancing Cat Books)
• The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy, by Jill MacLean (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• Dear George Clooney Please Marry My Mom, by Susin Nielsen (Tundra)
• Half Brother, by Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins)
• The Secret Fiend, by Shane Peacock (Tundra)
• The Glory Wind, by Valerie Sherrard (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• Stolen Child, by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (Scholastic)
• The Dark Deeps, by Arthur Slade (HarperCollins)

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award

• Book of Big Brothers / Illustrated by Luc Melanson (Groundwood Books)
• Counting On Snow / Illustrated by Maxwell Newhouse (Tundra Books)
• Fishing With Gubby / Illustrated by Kim La Fave (Harbour Publishing)
• The Good Garden / Illustrated by Sylvie Daigneault (Kids Can Press)
• I Know Here / Illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood Books)
• Owls See Clearly At Night: A Michif Alphabet / Illustrated by Julie Flett (Simply Read Books)
• Making the Moose Out of Life / Illustrated by Nicholas Oldhand (Kids Can Press)
• Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth! / Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay (Groundwood Books)
• Singing Away the Dark / Illustrated by Julie Morstad (Simply Read Books)
• Spork / Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault ( Kids Can Press)

Young Adult Book Award

• The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley (Doubleday)
• Waiting For No One by Beverley Brenna (Red Deer Press)
• Room by Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins)
• Pluto’s Ghost by Sheree Fitch (Doubleday)
• Folly by Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra)
• Free as a Bird by Gina McMurchy-Barber (Dundurn)
• Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins)
• The Dark Deeps by Arthur Slade (HarperCollins)
• Borderline by Allan Stratton (HarperCollins)
• Dust City by Robert Paul Weston (Puffin)

The awards will be presented at the CLA Book Awards Reception in Halifax on Thursday, May 26, 2011.

For more information:

• Canadian Library Association Announces 2011 Book of the Year for Children Award Shortlist
• Canadian Library Association Announces 2011 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award Shortlist
• Canadian Library Association Announces 2011 Young Adult Book Award Shortlist

 

CLA Book Awards Shortlists to be Announced on March 1

On Tuesday, March 1, 2011, the Canadian Library Association (CLA) will announce the 10 shortlisted books for each of the following awards:

• Book of the Year for Children Award
  Presented annually since 1947, this award recognizes excellence in children’s books written and published in Canada during the preceding year.

• Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award
  This award recognizes an outstanding illustrator of a children’s book published in Canada suitable for children up to and including age 12.

• Young Adult Canadian Book Award
  This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English language Canadian book which appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.

The awards will be presented at the CLA Book Awards Reception in Halifax on Thursday, May 26, 2011.

will announce the 10 shortlisted books for each of the following prestigious

10 Children’s Books Every Business Student Should Read

“Marketed as children’s books, they each contain important lessons that any business student would do well to remember as she makes her way through the fast-paced, power-driven world of business. Tales of perseverance, creativity, resourcefulness, and even a few cautionary tales are included in this list of children’s books every business student should read.”

10 Children’s Books Every Business Student Should Read

1. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
2. The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
3. Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
4. Charlotte’s Web by EB White
5. Beyond the Traditional Lemonade Stand by Randi Lynn Millward
6. The Story of the Three Little Pigs
7. Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
8. Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
9. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
10. The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton

(Thanks to Erin Walker for this link.)