For Immediate Release
April 28, 2005

Canadian Library Association Announces Shortlists for 2005 Book Awards

The Canadian Association of Children's Librarians, a section of the Canadian Association of Public Libraries, a division of the Canadian Library Association, is pleased to announce the following shortlists for its 2005 Book Awards. The winners will be announced in mid-May and will be presented with their awards at a banquet to be held June 16 as part of the Canadian Library Association conference in Calgary, Alberta.

CLA acknowledges the generous support for these awards of National Book Service, and encourages libraries to order copies of the shortlisted books from NBS by visiting www.nbs.com.

Todd Kyle
President, CACL

SHORTLIST FOR THE 2005 CLA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR CHILDREN

• Last Chance Bay, Anne Laurel Carter (Penguin)
• Gillian Chan, An Ocean Apart: the Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-ling [Dear Canada series] (Scholastic)
• Alan Cumyn, After Sylvia (Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre)
• Vicki Grant, The Puppet Wrangler (Orca)
• Haworth-Attard, Barbara. A Trail of Broken Dreams: the Gold Rush Diary of Harriet Palmer (Dear Canada series). Scholastic, 2004.
• Marthe Jocelyn, Mable Riley: a Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril and Romance (Tundra)
• Clem Martini, The Mob: Feather and Bone. (The Crow Chronicles) (Kids Can Press)
• Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (HarperCollins)
• Joanne Taylor, There You Are (Tundra)
• Ange Zhang, Red Land Yellow River: a Story from the Cultural Revolution (Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre).