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The Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada
Information Book Award is given to a book that arouses interest,
stimulates curiosity, captures the imagination, and fosters concern
for the world around us. The award's aim is to recognize excellence
in Canadian publishing of non-fiction for children. The criteria
include accuracy, clarity, imaginative approach, appropriateness of
organization and format, and sensitivity to ethnocentric and gender
biases.
The book, written in English by a Canadian citizen
or landed immigrant, must have been published the calendar year
previous to the award being granted. A national committee based in
Vancouver sends out a selective list of 24+ titles that have been
judged across Canada as the best of the preceding year. The
Roundtables consider this preliminary list and ballott and send back
their recommendations, resulting in 5 to 7 finalists. A majority of
Roundtables make time at their first fall meeting to discuss the
finalists and vote on their choices which are collated into one vote
per Roundtable. The winning book is announced in time for Canadian
Children's Book Week in November. The author and the illustrator of
the winning book receive award certificates and share a cash prize
of $1000.
Award Criteria
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2010 Information Book Award
Preliminary List
Ages 5-8
Alfalfabet A to Z: The Wonderful Words from Agriculture
Written by Carol Watterson. Illustrated by Michela Sorrentino
BC Agriculture for the Classroom Foundation, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9812317-0-9
Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills
Written/Illustrated by Scot Ritchie
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-274-2
Fun With Composers – Volume II
Written by Deborah Lyn Ziolkoski. Illustrated by Jim Fee
Fun With Composers, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9780360-5-8
Getting There
Written by Marla Stewart Konrad
Tundra Books, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-88776-867-5
Have You Ever Seen an Octopus With A Broom?
Written by Etta Kaner. Illustrated by Jeff Szuc
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-247-6
I Is for Inuksuk: An Arctic Celebration
Written/Illustrated by Mary Wallace
Maple Tree Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-897349-57-1
It’s a Snap! George Eastman’s First Photograph
Written by Monica Kulling. Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Tundra Books, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-88776-881-1
La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs
Written by Ian Tyson. Paintings by Adeline Halvorson
Tundra Books, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-88776-863-7
Oh, Canada!
Written/Illustrated by Per-Henrik Gurth
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-374-9
Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion
Written by Jane Barclay. Illustrated by Renne Benoit
Tundra Books, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-88776-951-1
The Rocket
Written by Mike Leonetti. Illustrated by Greg Banning.
North Winds Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-545-98948-0
Who Lives Here? Forest Animals
Written by Deborah Hodge. Illustrated by Pat Stephens
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-070-0
AGES 9-15
Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road
Written by Priscilla Galloway with Dawn Hunter
Annick Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55451-198-3
Animal Aha! Thrilling Discoveries in Wildlife Science
Written by Diane Swanson
Annick Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55451-1655
Charlie: A Home Child’s Life in Canada
Written by Beryl Young
Key Porter Books, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55470-200-8
The Children of Africville
Written by Christine Welldon
Nimbus Publishing, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55109-723-7
Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees
Written by Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-88899-907-8
The Chinese Thought of It: Amazing Inventions and Innovations
Written by Ting-Xing Ye
Annick Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55451-196-9
Dieppe : Canada’s Darkest Day of World War II
Written by Hugh Brewster
Scholastic, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-545-99420-0
Dinosaurs in Your Backyard
Written by Hugh Brewster. Illustrated by Alan Barnard
Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8109-7099-1
Hoaxed! Fakes and Mistakes in the World of Science
by the Editors of Yes Magazine
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-206-3
How Figure Skating Works
Written by Keltie Thomas. Illustrated by Stephen MacEachern
Owlkids, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-897349-59-5
How to Build Your Own Country
Written by Valerie Wyatt. Illustrated by Fred Rix
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-310-7
If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States
Written by David J. Smith. Illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-344-2
Kaboom! Explosions of All Kinds
Written by Gillian Richardson
Annick Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55451-203-4
Learn to Speak Music
Written by John Crossingham. Illustrated by Jeff Kulak
Owlkids, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-897349-65-6
Living Stories
Written by Mindy Willett, Therese Zoe and Philip Zoe
Illustrated by: Tessa Macintosh (photographs)
Fifth House (Fitzhenry and Whiteside), 2009
ISBN: 1-897-252-447
Out of This World: The Amazing Search for an Alien Earth
Written by Jacob Berkowitz
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-197-4
Pharaohs and Foot Soldiers
Written by Kristin Butcher. Illustrated by Martha Newbigging
Annick Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55451-171-6
Remembering John McCrae
Written by Linda Granfield
Scholastic, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-439-93561-6
Robert Munsch
Written by Frank B. Edwards
Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55455-138-5
Sargeant Gander: A Canadian Hero
Written by Robyn Walker
Dundurn Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55488-463-6
Spiked Scorpions & Walking Whales: Modern Animals, Ancient Animals & Water
Written by Claire Eamer
Annick Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55451-206-5
A Thousand Years of Pirates
Written by William Gilkerson
Tundra Books, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-88776-924-5
Vanishing Habitats
Written by Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs. Illustrated by Robert Bateman.
Scholastic/Madison Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-545-98621-2
The War to End All Wars: The Story of World War I
Written by Jack Batten
Tundra Books, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-88776-879-8
What’s the Big Idea? Inventions that Changed Life on Earth Forever
Written by Helaine Becker
Owlkids, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-897349-60-1
Whispers from the Ghettos
Written by Kathy Kacer and Sharon McKay
Puffin Canada, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-14331-251-2
You Are Weird: Your Body’s Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions
Written by Diane Swanson. Illustrated by Kathy Boake
Kids Can Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55453-282-7
2009 Information Book Award
The Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada
Proudly Announces…..
THE 2009 INFORMATION BOOK AWARD RESULTS
WINNER:
One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists
by Janet Wilson. Orca.
HONOUR:
A Bear in War
by Stephanie Innes & Harry Endrulat. Illustrated by Brian Deines. Key Porter.
Robots: From Everyday to Out of This World
by the Editors of Yes Magazine. Kids Can Press.
FINALISTS:
The Delta Is My Home
by Tom McLeod & Mindy Willett. Photographed by Tessa Macintosh. Fifth House.
Everything but the Kitchen Sink (Weird Stuff You Didn’t Know about Food)
by Frieda Wishinsky & Elizabeth Macleod. Illustrated by Travis King. Scholastic.
Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth
by Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs. Scholastic/Madison Press.
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Award book stickers available here: pdf or doc
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