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For Immediate Release
Canadian Library Association Announces 2011 Amelia Frances
Howard-Gibbon Award Shortlist
(Ottawa, March 1, 2011) The Amelia
Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award Committee of the
Canadian Library Association / Association canadienne des
bibliothèques is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2011
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award.
This award recognizes an illustrator of a noteworthy Canadian book,
published in 2010, that appeals to children up to the age of 12 years.
The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award is generously
sponsored by Library Services Centre.
The winners of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s
Award and Honour Books will be announced prior to the Canadian Library
Association National Conference and Trade Show. The award
will be presented at the CLA National Conference and Trade Show
in Halifax on May 26.
The finalists for the 2011 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon
Illustrator’s Award, in alphabetical order by title, are:
- Book of Big Brothers / Illustrated by Luc Melanson
(Groundwood Books)
- Counting On Snow / Illustrated by Maxwell Newhouse (Tundra
Books)
- Fishing With Gubby / Illustrated by Kim La Fave (Harbour
Publishing)
- The Good Garden / Illustrated by Sylvie
Daigneault (Kids Can Press)
- I Know Here / Illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood
Books)
- Owls See Clearly At Night: A Michif Alphabet / Illustrated by
Julie Flett (Simply Read Books)
- Making the Moose Out of Life / Illustrated by Nicholas
Oldhand (Kids Can Press)
- Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth! / Illustrated
by Marie-Louise Gay (Groundwood Books)
- Singing Away the Dark / Illustrated by Julie Morstad (Simply
Read Books)
- Spork/ Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault ( Kids Can
Press)
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the 2010-2011 CLA Amelia Frances
Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award Committee:
Delilah Deane Cummings, Coordinator, Community Outreach & Program
Services, London Public Library, Chair
Joy Huebert, Librarian, Esquimalt Public Library
Lynn Thorimbert, Librarian/Consultant Services, Marigold Library
System
Stirling Prentice, Librarian, Kanata, Ontario
Diana Gauthier, Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Association for School
Libraries (CASL), Ottawa
The Canadian Library Association / Association canadienne des
bibliothèques is Canada’s largest national and
broad-based library association, representing the interests of public,
academic, school and special libraries, professional librarians and
library workers, and all those concerned about enhancing the quality of
life of Canadians through information and literacy.
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For more information contact: Delilah Deane
Cummings, 519 661 5100 x 7422
