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.
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.
Myrna Guymer loves to do school readings with her book The Canadian Shield Alphabet. Here she is at a reading in Melville in spring 2011.
Myrna says “The costume is my voyageur shirt and Metis sash. I also wear beaded moccasins. I take samples from nature: birch bark and items made from bark; roots, spruce gum, deer moss, and many different rock samples, core samples, and I often give each child a chunk of rock with sparkles – pyrite – that they think might be gold (they love it).
Author: Dianne Young
Illustrator: John Martz
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A rhythmic romp through space! See a preview at the Kids Can Press Website.
Watch a video trailer.
WINNER of the 2014 Saskatchewan Book Awards in the SaskEnergy Children’s Literature category.
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Congratulations to Linda Aksomitis, whose book L is for Land of Living Skies has been nominated for the High Plains Book Award in the art and photography category!
The award is given out by the Parmly Billings Library Board in Billings, Montana. It recognizes authors and/or literary works which examine and reflect life in the North American plains. This includes Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas in the U.S. A., and Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in Canada.
For more information, see the Parmly Billings Library website.
Anne Patton and Wilfred Burton read their award-winning books Fiddle Dancer and Dancing in My Bones to an appreciative audience of eleven children at the George Bothwell Library on November 2, 2010.
A crew from Access7, Access TV‘s community channel, was there to record the event. It will be broadcast around the province later this year and next year as one of several shows in their new literacy program, The Bookworm’s Corner.
Congratulations to Anne Patton and Wilfred Burton, whose book Dancing in My Bones has won a Moonbeams Spirit Award!
The awards are administered by the Independent Publishers, who say:
“The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. The Awards recognize and reward the best of these books and bring them to the attention of parents, booksellers, librarians – and to children themselves.
The cause of promoting childhood literacy knows no boundaries, and the award winners illustrate that point well, coming not only from long-established publishers and university presses, but from small presses, foundations, museums, and self-published entrepreneurs.”
The Moonbeam Spirit Award is given “for dedication to children’s literacy and inspired writing, illustrating and publishing.”
Now Anne and Wilfred have another reason to dance!
Saskatchewan Children's Writers' Round Robin 