Monday 6 May 2013

2013 BC Book Prizes winners announced

On Saturday, May 4, 2013 at Government House in Victoria,  the West Coast Book Prize Society announced the winners of the 2013 BC Book Prizes.  Of the seven categories, two are specific to youngCanLit: the awards for Children's Literature and for Illustrated Children's Literature. 

Congratulations to the winners of these two awards!

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The winner of the 2013

Sheila A. Egoff
Children’s Literature Prize

 is

Middle of Nowhere
by Caroline Adderson
Groundwood Books


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The winner of the 2013

Christie Harris Illustrated
Children’s Literature Prize

is

Maggie’s Chopsticks
by Alan Woo
Illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant
Kids Can Press 

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