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CANADIAN AWARD WINNING BOOKSEach year, various national, provincial, territorial and regional awards for children's and young adults' books in Canada are given. Resource Links attempts to list all of these awards for its readers. If you know of an award not listed here, please address additions and updates to Victoria Pennell at the address given below.
Cunard First Book Award Nominee 2002 Where I Live by Frances Wolfe
(Tundra Books) Edgar Allan Poe Award 2002 for Best Young Adult Novel The Boy in the Burning House by Tim Wynne-Jones (Groundwood Books; published in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books)
Information Book Award 2002 - Children's Literature Roundtable of Canada Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion by Linda Granfield. Stoddart/Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2001 Picture Book Category The Composition by Antonio Skármeta, author and Alfonso Ruano, illustrator (Groundwood Books) Leishman Prize 2002 Children's author Brian Doyle, whose recent books include Mary Ann Alice (Groundwood Books), has won the second annual Leishman Prize, awarded by the Ottawa independent Leishman Bookstore. The $500 prize will be split between Doyle and the charity of his choice.
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Groundwood Books) Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards 2002
The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton (HarperCollins Canada) Other Nominees Castles in the Sea by Larry Jackson (Tuckamore Books)
This award is chosen by the Association of Jewish Libraries from among children’s book of Jewish content published each year in Canada and the United States. Among the Canadian books selected this year are the following: Sydney Taylor Award for Young Readers Rivka’s First Thanksgiving. Written by Elsa
Okon Rael. Illus. by Maryann Kovalski. Margaret K. (McElderry/Simon & Schuster ) Notable Books for Younger Readers Rachel Captures the Moon. By Richard Ungar. (Tundra Books) Notable Books for Older Readers Daughter of Light. By Martha Attema. (Orca Book
Publishers )
Mary Ann Alice Brian Doyle (Groundwood Books)
Joan Clarke for her young adult novel The Word for Home
Writer's Union of Canada Writing for Children Competition 2002 Winner Mary-Eileen McClear of Baden, Ontario for her story "Cows and Robbers" Other Finalists "Sasq-watching" by Liz Crocker
(Victoria, BC)
Winner: Stones William Bell (Doubleday Canada) Other Nominees: Seeing Stars Gary Barwin (Stoddart Kids)
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