The winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards will be announced at Ryerson Community School at 1:30 p.m. on May 6, 2008.
FACTS
- The two awards recognize artistic excellence in writing and illustration in Canadian children’s literature. There are eleven shortlisted authors and illustrators this year
- The Ruth Schwartz Foundation increased the award amount this year to $6,000 per award
- The winners are selected by two juries of young readers. This year’s jurors are students at Ryerson Community School in Toronto
- Five grade 3 and 4 students will choose the author and illustrator who will share the children’s picture book award
- Five students in grades 7 and 8 will select the recipient in the young adult/middle reader category
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“These awards are very special because it is the young students who choose the winners,” said Janet Stubbs , Director of the Ontario Arts Foundation .
LEARN MORE
The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards are funded by the Ruth Schwartz Foundation.
The administration of these awards is shared by the Ontario Arts Foundation , the Ontario Arts Council which manages the jury process, and the Canadian Booksellers Association whose members choose the short list of books.
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Shortlist for the 2008 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards
Children’s Picture Books
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The Aunts Come Marching
Bill Richardson, Author (Vancouver)
Cynthia Nugent, Illustrator (Vancouver)
Raincoast Books
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The Boy from the Sun
Duncan Weller, Author/Illustrator (Thunder Bay)
Simply Read Books
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Grumpy Bird
Jeremy Tankard, Author/Illustrator (Toronto)
Scholastic Canada Ltd.
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The Painted Circus : P.T. Vermin Presents a
Mesmerizing Menagerie of Trickery and Illusion Guaranteed to Beguile and Bamboozle the Beholder
Wallace Edwards, Author/Illustrator
(Yarker)
Kids Can Press
(a division of Corus Entertainment)
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Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
Melanie Watts, Author/Illustrator (Montréal)
Kids Can Press
(a division of Corus Entertainment)
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Young Adult/Middle Reader Books
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Dancing Through the Snow
By Jean Little (Guelph, ON)
Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd.
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Darkwing
By Kenneth Oppel (Toronto, ON)
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Elijah of Buxton
By Christopher Paul Curtis (Windsor, ON)
Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd.
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A Perfect Gentle Knight
By Kit Pearson (Victoria, BC)
Publisher: Penguin Group (Canada)
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Rex Zero, King of Nothing
By Tim Wynne-Jones (Perth, ON)
Publisher: Groundwood Books |
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For more information, please contact:
Hamal Docter, Communications Coordinator, Ontario Arts Council, 416-969-7434 or toll-free in Ontario at 1-800-387-0058 ext.7434 or email hdocter@arts.on.ca
The Ontario Arts Foundation is a public, non-government foundation established in 1991 to encourage and facilitate private giving to the arts in Ontario.