Congratulations to Judith Silverthorne, whose book Convictions has just won a 2017 Gold Human Relations Indie Book award in the Pre-teen/Teen category!
Gold, Silver and Bronze medals are awarded in each category.
Congratulations to Judith Silverthorne and Ray Lavallee, whose book Honouring the Buffalo (illustrated by Mike Keepness) has won one of two first prizes in the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Children’s Picture Book (6 years and up) category!
Author: Judith Silverthorne
Publisher: Coteau Books
Set in 1842 aboard a convict ship for convicted female prisoners, Convictions follows the story of Jennie, a teenage girl convicted for stealing a loaf of moldy bread from a garbage bin. Now she finds herself heading to Australia with no hope of ever seeing her family again.
Meticulously researched and true to the time, this is Judith’s 8th book with Coteau.
Winner of the 2016 Gold Moonbeam Award in YA Fiction-Historical/Cultural Category, and the 2018 Gold Human Relations Indie Book Award in the Pre-teen/Teen category.
Read more at Judith’s website.
Congratulations to Anne Patton and Judith Silverthorne, whose books have both been awarded 2015 Moonbeam awards!
Anne’s book Through Flood and Fire won a Silver medal in the Pre-Teen Fiction–Historical/Cultural category. Judith’s book Honouring the Buffalo won a Silver medal in the Environmental Issues category.
Judith Silverthorne kicked off her new book, Honoring the Buffalo, with two events in Regina.
The first was at Seven Stones Community School on February 24, 2015. She was joined by Mike Keepness, who illustrated the book, and Ray Lavalee, Medicine Man and Wisdom Keeper of the Piapot First Nations Reserve. Ray is the Cree elder who gave Judith the legend in the book, and he opened the session with an invocation to the students to remember where they came from and who they are. Mike joined Judith in answering students’ questions after Judith’s reading.
The event was covered by CJME , cbc.ca, and the Regina Leader Post, and picked up by the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen, and Canada.com.
The second event was March 21 at the Indian Metis Christian Fellowship building. After the reading, her audience enjoyed bannock and, appropriately, bison soup.
Congratulations, Judith!
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