Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature


The 2008 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature have been announced. The winners are:
for Fiction and Poetry, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown);
for Picture Books, At Night by Jonathan Bean (FSG);
and for Nonfiction, The Wall by Peter Sís (FSG/Foster).

The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Scholastic/Levine) was awarded a special citation for excellence in graphic storytelling.

For a complete list of the winners, including the honor books in each category, click here

Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards

The 2008 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards have been announced. The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCully (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) won in the category of Books for Younger Children, and We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimner (Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek) won in the Books for Older Children category. There were several honor books; for a complete list, click here.

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Canadian Library Association awards

The Canadian Library Association has given out its annual awards: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis won the Book of the Year for Children Award, and Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks won the Young Adult Canadian Book Award

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Greenaway Nominees announced

The shortlists for the 2008 Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards in the U.K. have been released.

The  nominees are:

 Silly Billy by Anthony Browne (Walker),

Penguin by Polly Dunbar (Walker),

Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett (Macmillan),

Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett (Macmillan),

The Lost Happy Endings by Jane Ray and Carol Ann Duffy (Bloomsbury),

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell (Macmillan)

Banana! by Ed Vere (Puffin).

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Los Angeles Times Book prizes


The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced on April 25.

British author Philip Reeve won in the Young Adult Fiction category for A Darkling Plain (HarperCollins/Eos), the fourth and final volume in his Hungry City Chronicles.

The four other finalists: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown); The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (HarperTeen); What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers (Random/Wendy Lamb); and Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins/Eos)

The Carnegie Medal shortlist has been announced

The nominees for the Carnegie are:
Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Orion),
Ruby Red by Linzi Glass (Penguin),
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan),
Apache by Tanya Landman (Walker),
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve (Scholastic),
What I Was by Meg Rosoff (Penguin) and
Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins).