The nominees for the 2025 Doug Wright Awards were recently announced, including The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for Best Kids' Book. Established in 2005, the awards celebrate excellence in the field of Canadian comics and named for cartoonist Doug Wright (1917–1983).
In addition to the Egghead nominees, Rosena Fung's Age 16, Sid Sharp's Bog Myrtle and their publisher, Annick Press, are double nominees for the Doug Wright Award for Best Book and the The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for Emerging Talent.
The awards ceremony, hosted by Jay Odjick, will take place on Saturday, June 7 at 8 pm EDT at Toronto's Arts & Letter Club, and the event will be livestreamed on YouTube. The nominees for the Egghead are listed below.
Alterations, written and illustrated by Ray Xu (Union Square Kids)
Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival, written by Tina Rathgeber, illustrated by Alina Pete, coloured by Jillian Dolan (Orca Book Publishers)
The New Girl, written and illustrated by Cassandra Calin (Graphix/Scholastic)
The Racc Pack, written by Stephanie Cooke, illustrated by Whitney Gardner (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
The Shit Witch, written and illustrated by Lis Xu (Lis Xu)
For the complete list of nominees, visit dougwrightawards.com.