The Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada have selected 50 Burning Questions: A Sizzling History of Fire by Tanya Lloyd Kyi with illustrations by Ross Kinnaird (Annick Press), as the winner of the 2011 Information Book Award. Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s Fatty Legs Annick Press) is the 2011 honour book.

The 2011 Information Book Award of $1000 will be presented in Vancouver on February 25, 2012 at the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable’s Serendipity Conference.