The nominees for the 2009-2010 Red Cedar Book Awards have been announced. The awards program encourages students in Grades 4 – 7 in British Columbia to read Canadian fiction and non-fiction titles. Each year, a Red Cedar Award is presented to one fiction and one non-fiction book which receive the most votes from children in the program.
Information nominees:
Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists
Written by Raquel Rivera
Illustrated by Jirina Marton
Groundwood Books
Breakout Dinosaurs: Canada’s Coolest, Scariest Ancient Creatures—Return!
Written by Hugh Brewster and the curators of the Royal Ontario Museum
Illustrated by Alan Barnard
Whitfield Edtions
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting
Written by Hugh Brewster
Paintings by John Singer Sargent
Kids Can Press
Cowboys and Coffin Makers: One Hundred 19th Century Jobs You Might Have Feared or Fancied
Written by Laurie Coulter
Illustrated by Martha Newbigging
Annick Press
Factory Girl
Written by Barbara Greenwood
Kids Can Press
How Soccer Works
Written by Keltie Thomas
Illustrated by Stephen MacEachern
Maple Tree Press
The Kids Book of Canada at War
Written by Elizabeth MacLeod
Illustrated by John Mantha
Kids Can Press
Kids Who Rule: the Remarkable Lives of Five Child Monarchs
Written by Charis Cotter
Annick Press
Mirror with a Memory : A Nation’s Story in Photographs
Written by Janice Weaver
Tundra Books
The Siege: Under Attack in Renaissance Europe
Written by Stephen Shapiro
Illustrated by John Mantha
Annick Press
The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr
Written and illustrated by Nicolas Debon
Groundwood Books
Sweet! The Delicious Story of Candy
Written by Ann Love and Jane Drake
Illustrated by Claudia Davila
Tundra Books
This is My Planet: The Kids Guide to Global Warming
Written by Jan Thornhill
Maple Tree Press
Red Cedar Information Book selection committee:
Maryn Brown, Teacher-Librarian, North Vancouver School District
Kallie George, Editor, Simply Read Books/Freelance Publishing Consultant
Heather Hill, Former Children’s Bookseller, Chapters/Indigo
Christy Goertzen, children’s author
Fran Ashdown, Children’s Librarian, NVDPL
Fiction nominees:
Alex and the Ironic Gentleman
Written by Adrienne Kress
Scholastic Canada
A Perfect Gentle Knight
Written by Kit Pearson
Puffin Canada/Penguin
The Castaways
Written by Iain Lawrence
Delacorte Press
Darkwing
Written by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Publishers
Dear Jo: The Story of Losing Leah … and Searching for Hope
Written by Christina Kilbourne
Lobster Press
Elijah of Buxton
Written by Christopher Paul Curtis
Scholastic Canada
Eye of the Crow
Written by Shane Peacock
Tundra Books
Hamish X and the Hollow Mountain
Written by Seán Cullen
Puffin Canada/Penguin
Honey Cake
Written by Joan Betty Stuchner
Illustrated by Cynthia Nugent
Tradewind Books
If I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor
Written by Jean Little
Scholastic Canada
Sacred Leaf
Written by Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books
Safe as Houses
Written by Eric Walters
Doubleday Canada
Schooled
Written by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
The Secret of Grim Hill
Written by Linda DeMeulemeester
Lobster Press
Thora and the Green Sea-Unicorn: Another Half-Mermaid Tale
Written and illustrated by Gillian Johnson
HarperCollins Canada
Red Cedar Fiction selection committee:
Pam McLeod, Victoria Miles, Joy Gugeler, Randi Robin and Tammy Fielden