Finalists Announced for TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
Toronto–The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) and TD Bank Financial Group (TDBFG) are proud to announce the finalists of the 2008 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for the most distinguished book of the year. This annual award recognizes excellence in Canadian children’s literature with a $20,000 prize.
Interview: Cynthia Leitich Smith of “Tantalize” from the Columbia County Rural Library District of Dayton, Washington.
Peek: “I’ve been a writer since third grade or so. Maybe even first. First. I remember… I wrote a story about crawdad fishing, and it was read over the elementary school sound system. That was my first ‘audio publication.’”
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Enter to win one of two two autographed copies of Night Road by A. M. Jenkins (HarperCollins, 2008)! Read a Cynsations interview with A. M. Jenkins.
To enter the giveaway, email me (scroll and click on the envelope) with your name and snail/street mail address by 10 p.m. CST Aug.
We last spoke in August 2007 about Beating Heart (HarperCollins, 2006) and Repossessed (HarperCollins, 2007). Since then, Repossessed was named a Printz Honor Book! Congratulations! How did you first hear of this and how did you (and yours) react?
By a huge coincidence, I was attending ALA in Philadelphia when I got the call.
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I’m pleased to announce that Barry Gott will illustrate my upcoming picture book, Holler Loudly (Dutton, 2010)!
My Dutton editor was kind enough to send me the early sketches last week, and I’m absolutely thrilled with them.
Here I’m highlighting the cover art to Barry’s Dino-Hockey (Carolrhoda, 2007), which was written by one of my favorite authors,
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Win an autographed copy of Immortal: Love Stories with Bite (BenBella, Aug. 2008)(PDF excerpt)(exclusive to Borders-Waldenbooks) from editor P. C. Cast! Deadline: Aug. 15.
This vampire-themed YA anthology includes short stories by P. C., L. J. Smith, Cynthia Leitich Smith,
What kind of young reader were you?
I was voracious–in more ways than one. Not only did I read everything I could get my hands on, I developed a taste for books, literally. Whenever I read a page I would tear off the lower outside corner and eat that postage-stamp-sized piece of paper.
A gentle (but firm) children’s librarian managed to break me of that habit by reminding me that others would be reading the books after me and they might find a nibbled-upon copy somewhat distasteful.
The Austin children’s-YA book creator community is hard-working, up-and-coming, and bursting with talent. We also like to play.
Folks met for an informal get-together at Waterloo Ice House north last Wednesday night. YA author Jennifer Ziegler was our location scout, and she did an amazing job!
Say howdy to my very cute husband and sometimes co-author Greg Leitich Smith and Frances Hill,
Enter to win one of two copies of Gone by Michael Grant (HarperCollins, 2008). From the promotional copy:
“In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. Gone.
“Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly,
Zu Vincent holds an MFA from Vermont College, where she began writing a story about fathers and daughters that became The Lucky Place. She was awarded Harcourt’s post-grad semester at Vermont College in 2006.
Her essays and short stories have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies and her features in such magazines as Harper’s,
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