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Kaboom! wins Science Writing Award

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Chair awarded by American Institute of Physics to Gillian Richardson for Kaboom!
Chair awarded by American Institute of Physics to Gillian Richardson for Kaboom!

Congratulations to Gillian Richardson, whose book Kaboom! has won the 2010 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in the Children’s Category. Her prize was this lovely chair, seen here with the book.

Plaque on prize chair
Plaque on prize chair

The inscription is on a plaque on the back of the chair.

Way to go, Gillian!

Read more in the AIP official announcement.

Snowmobile Challenge ebook

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Snowmobile Challenge (ebook), by Linda Aksomitis
Snowmobile Challenge (ebook), by Linda Aksomitis

Author: Linda Aksomitis

Format: e-book, available at Amazon or Smashwords

Snowmobile Challenge, an award-winning young adult novel, was first released in 2003. Judges at the Saskatchewan Book Awards wrote: The sixteen-year-old protagonist in Snowmobile Challenge looks deeply into himself after his best friend, Riley, dies in a snowmobile accident. Brad Klein comes to understand the difference between proving oneself in a race and proving oneself in life.

Now you can read Snowmobile Challenge as an e-book!

It is available from: Smashwords and Amazon .

To find out more about this book, visit Linda’s website.

Adele Dueck’s book Racing Home is a 2011 OLA Best Bet!

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Congratulations to Adele Dueck, whose novel Racing Home has been chosen by the Ontario Library Association as one of 2011’s Best Bets for Children and Young Adults!

Books are chosen for their literary merit and their appeal to their intended audience, in this case middle grade readers.

The OLA summarizes the book as follows:

Racing Home
Written by Adele Dueck | Coteau Books
Erik did not want to leave his grandfather’s farm in Norway. But he must adjust as his new stepfather moves the family to the Canadian west. This is a richly detailed and engrossing portrait of pioneer prairie life seen through a young boy’s eyes.

Call of the Fiddle

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Call of the Fiddle, by Wilfred Burton and Anne Patton
Call of the Fiddle, by Wilfred Burton and Anne Patton

Authors: Anne Patton and Wilfred Burton
Illustrator: Sherry Farrell Racette
Publisher: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2011

Book 3 in the trilogy: Fiddle Dancer, Dancing In My Bones, Call of the Fiddle.

Call of the Fiddle is the third and final book in the trilogy of a young boy as he learns to embrace his Métis heritage through storytelling, family love, and jigging. It follows Fiddle Dancer and Dancing in My Bones.

Order from McNalley-Robinson or  The Gabriel Dumont Institute.

Hum Piffle Piffle…Preview Dianne Young’s Dear Flyary!

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Dear Flyary, by Dianne Young
Dear Flyary, by Dianne Young

Dianne Young’s awesome new picture book Dear Flyary is available in bookstores everywhere. But you can preview the story and the cute aliens that inhabit it at the Kids Can Press website.

After you go there, click on “Spread” on the left sidebar to see inside the cover. Or click on “Book Trailer” for an animated version.

Award-Winning Book inspires Award-Winning Quilt

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Canadian Shield Alphabet quilt
Canadian Shield Alphabet quilt

Myrna Guymer’s book The Canadian Shield Alphabet, which won a Science  Journalism award in 2008, has inspired the creation of an award-winning quilt!

Here it is, with one panel for each letter. Congratulations to both Myrna and the quilter.