Canadian Children’s Literature Awards
It’s great to be able to report news from Canada – a country whose YA literature doesn’t reach Australia as often as we would like. The finalists have been announced in the Canadian Children’s Literature Awards, and as one criterion for the award is that the books must be targeted towards an age group up to 12, we are happy to note that three titles at the lower end of the YA spectrum have been nominated.
Kenneth Oppel’s Darkwing is the latest in his amazing series about prehistoric bats. We don’t have a review of Darkwing, but the book’s website gives a great sense of what it is all about.
Also on the short list fitting the YA tag is Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Curtis, which was also a Newbery Honor Book this year and Shane Peacock’s Eye of the Crow (the Boy Sherlock Holmes)
There’s more information about the Canadian Children’s Literature Awards on the Canadian Children’s Book Centre site.
The winner will be announced in Toronto on November 6.
