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Geoffrey Bilson Award
The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987. The Geoffrey Bilson Award is selected by a jury chosen by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Award winners must be Canadian authors, and the winning novel must have been published in the previous calendar year. Each year's winner receives a $1000 ( C$) prize. The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Bilson
Geoffrey Bilson (27 January 1938 – 25 July 1987) was a Welsh Canadian academic and author. Between 1964 and 1987, Bilson worked for the University of Saskatchewan in their history department as a professor. During this time period, Bilson primarily released children's books while also publishing non-fiction books. Some of the topics that Bilson wrote about include the Boston Massacre, cholera and the Winnipeg general strike. Following his 1987 death, his non-fiction book titled ''The Guest Children'' was released in 1988. The following year, the Geoffrey Bilson Award was first presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Early life and education Bilson's birth occurred at Cardiff, Wales, on 27 January 1938. During his childhood, Bilson lived in Liverpool. After he became interested in journalism, Bilson worked in newspaper publishing and editing while completing his education. For his post-secondary education, Bilson first attended Aberystwyth University. Throughout the 1960s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Lawrence
Iain Lawrence (born 1955) is a bestselling Canadian author for children and young adults. In 2007 he won a Governor General’s Literary Award in Children’s Literature for ''Gemini Summer''. Biography Lawrence was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in 1955. He has lived on Gabriola Island since 2000. Lawrence attended Langara College in Vancouver studying journalism. After school he worked for the ''Prince Rupert Daily News'' and other newspapers in northern British Columbia. In his free time he wrote a number of unpublished children's fiction books, and was able to publish two non-fiction books about sailing, his hobby. A Chicago agent encouraged him to concentrate on children's fiction so he reworked one of his earlier books, ''The Wrecker'', and sold it to Random House in 1994. Since then he has published many more books, in 2007 Random House reported he had sold more than one million books in North America. Writing ''Gemini Summer'' The book was reviewed in ''Publishers We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Sherrard
Valerie Anne Sherrard (née Russell: born May 16, 1957) is a Canadian author of books for children and young adults including the novels ''The Glory Wind'', ''Kate'', ''Speechless'' and the Shelby Belgarden mystery series. Early life Sherrard was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to Bob and Pauline Russell and raised in Trenton, Ontario and Belleville, Ontario. She has two brothers, Danny and Andrew. When living in Lahr, West Germany, in the sixth-grade, her homeroom teacher, Alf Lower, inspired her to become a writer. Career ''The Glory Wind'' won the 2011 Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Ann Connor Brimer Award and was shortlisted for other awards, including the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award. Sherrard's novel in free verse, ''Counting Back from Nine'', was nominated for a 2013 Governor General's Award in the Children's Text category. Sherrard's picture books include ''There's a Cow Under my Bed' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Peacock (writer)
Shane Peacock is a Canadian novelist, playwright, journalist, and television screenwriter. His first book ''The Great Farini'' was a biography of the colourful Canadian personality William Leonard Hunt. His plays have been produced by the 4th Line Theatre; his documentaries have included ''Team Spirit'', aired on the CTV Television Network, CTV national network, and among his novels are ''Last Message'', part of the Seven Series for young readers; ''Double You'', its sequel; and ''Separated'', its prequel. His best-selling series for young adults, ''The Boy Sherlock Holmes'', has been published in ten countries in twelve languages and has appeared on more than forty shortlists. It won the prestigious Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, IODE Violet Downey Book Award, two Arthur Ellis Awards for crime fiction, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, the Libris Award, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Awards#Governor General's Literary Awards, Govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ibbitson
John Ibbitson (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist. Since 1999, he has been a political writer and columnist for ''The Globe and Mail''. Career Ibbitson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 with a B.A. in English. After university, he pursued a career as a playwright, his most notable play being ''Mayonnaise'', which debuted in December 1980 at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. The play went on to national production and was adapted to a TV broadcast in 1983. In the mid-1980s, Ibbitson switched over to writing young adult fiction, including the science fiction novel ''Starcrosser'' (1990). He also wrote two full-length novels, ''1812: Jeremy's War'' and ''The Night Hazel Came to Town''. ''The Landing'' followed in 2008 - a winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. Apart from the latter Ibbitson has been nominated for several awards for other works, including a Governor General's Award nomination for ''1812''. ''Haz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elijah Of Buxton
''Elijah of Buxton'' is a children's novel written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published in 2007. The book won critical praise and was a Newbery Honor book and the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. It also was a children's book bestseller. Summary ''Elijah of Buxton'' is about an eleven-year-old boy, Elijah Freeman, who lives in Buxton, Canada. It was started as the Elgin Settlement, a refugee camp for African-American slaves who escaped via the Underground Railroad to gain freedom in Canada. Elijah is the first free-born child in the settlement, and has never lived under slavery. He has only heard of it. He goes into the United States to help stop a man from his settlement from stealing money from his friend, and learns there that it is a privilege to be free. Reception ''Elijah of Buxton'' has been well received. ''School Library Journal'' called it "an example of everything Curtis does well. His historical research is superior. His characters heartwarming. His prose f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953)Judy Levin, Allison Stark Draper, ''Christopher Paul Curtis'' (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2005), , p. 84. Excerptsat Google Books. Retrieved 2015-07-25. is an American children's book author. His first novel, ''The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963'', was published in 1995 and brought him immediate national recognition, receiving the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award and the Newbery Honor Book Award in addition to numerous other awards. In 2000, he became the first person to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award—prizes received for his second novel ''Bud, Not Buddy''—and the first African-American man to win the Newbery Medal."Christopher Paul Curtis." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale, Farmington Hills, MI, 2018. Gale Literature Resource Center; Gale. His novel ''The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963'' was made into a television film in 2013. Curtis has written a total of eight novels and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Wiseman
Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in the ''Devil May Cry'' video game series * Eva (''Metal Gear''), a fictional character in the ''Metal Gear'' video games series * Evangelion (mecha), commonly referred to as "Eva" or "EVA", a fictional cyborg in the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise Films * ''Eva'' (1948 film), a Swedish film * ''Eva'' (1953 film), a Greek drama film * ''Eva'' (1958 film), an Austrian film * ''Eva'' (1962 film), a French-Italian film in English * ''Eva'' (2010 film), an English-language Romanian film * ''Eva'' (2011 film), a Spanish film * ''Eva'' (2018 film), a French film Music Artists *Eva (singer), French singer * E.V.A. (band) (Eve Versus Adam), an Italian female pop band * Banda Eva, a Brazilian axé band formerly fronted by Ivete Sanga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crazy Man
''The Crazy Man'' is a 2005 Canadian children's novel written by Pamela Porter. This realistic family novel told in free verse has received many awards and was selected for the Governor General's Literary Award. The story is about a girl named Emaline who lives on a farm. Emaline's family falls apart after a terrible tractor accident. After chasing her beloved dog, Emaline's father accidentally runs over her leg with a tractor leaving her permanently disabled. Because of guilt, Emaline's father shoots her dog, Prince, and ends up leaving Emaline and her mother on their own. The narrative follows Emaline as she deals with prejudice, fear, her disability, and the absence of her father. Plot summary ''The Crazy Man'' is set in 1965 in Saskatchewan, Canada. Pamela Porter reinforces the harsh times by incorporating day-to-day life during the Vietnam War, Communism, and The Cold War. Financial times were tough. The novel begins by introducing the protagonist Emaline, a twelve-year-old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Porter
Pamela Paige Porter (born July 14, 1956) is a Canadian novelist and poet. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has also lived in Texas, Louisiana, Washington, and Montana. She emigrated to Canada with her husband Rob Porter, from the fourth generation of a Saskatchewan farm family, and resides in North Saanich, British Columbia. She has received praise for her young adult novels, especially ''The Crazy Man.'' Her poetry has won the Prism International Poetry Prize and the Vallum Magazine Poetry Prize, and has appeared in literary magazines in Canada and the United States. Biography Early life Porter lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico until halfway through kindergarten. Her father, who worked for an insurance company, was transferred, and then the family moved to Dallas, Texas. When Porter was 12 years old, her father was transferred to Monroe, Louisiana, where she attended Robert E. Lee Junior High. She remembers her school as being very strict; she had to address all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Noël (writer)
Matchewan Noël (August 17, 1944 – April 12, 2021) was a Canadian civil servant and award-winning writer of Algonquin descent from the Outaouais region of Quebec. The son of Jean-Marechal Noël, he was born in Messines and grew up in the La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve and in the Maniwaki and Abitibi regions of Quebec. He received a BEd from the École normale de Hull, then a BA and MA from Laval University. In 1983, he completed a PhD; his thesis was on First Nations gastronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries. From 1977 to 1980, Noël was director of the Service de l'artisanat et des métiers d'art for the Quebec Ministry of Culture. He continued to serve in various positions in the same department and most recently has been a coordinator for First Nations affairs. In terms of creative output, he wrote novels, poetry, reference works, stories and plays for young audiences and articles which have appeared in various specialty magazines. During the 1980s, Noël wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Doyle (Canadian Writer)
Brian Doyle (born 12 August 1935) is a Canadians, Canadian writer of novels and short stories. His children's books have been adapted into movies and plays. Many of his stories are drawn from his experiences growing up in the Ottawa area. He was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2005"2005 NSK Neustadt Laureate Brian Doyle" and was twice a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. His writings evoke a strong sense of location, reflecting urban Ottawa and the Gatineau Valley. ''Angel Square''"Mary Ann Alice" ''Quill & Quire'', and ''Easy Avenue'' are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
