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For Immediate Release (July 2010) - The Rocky Mountain Book Award Committee is pleased to announce the 2010 winner of this Children's Choice Book Award. Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen received the most student votes. Students in Grades 4 - 7 had the opportunity to vote for their favourite book from a list of twenty recently published Canadian titles selected to represent the best in fiction, poetry and non-fiction. The main objective of the award is to encourage students to read exemplary Canadian literature. Teachers/Schools registered in this project before January 16th, 2010. Students read 5 titles or more from the list and voted electronically for their favorite book before April 23rd, 2010.

Canadian author Shar Levine as been selected as a 2010 Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The program will be held from September 12-18, 2010.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toronto (July 15, 2010) ― The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction and Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.

Illustrators and their illustrations will be a vital part of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2011.

The Illustrators Exhibition, scheduled from Monday, March 28 to Thursday, March 31, boasts a great tradition, and is one of the most meaningful initiatives among events devoted to illustration. The Illustrators Exhibition offers a unique opportunity for artists and publishers to meet each other because it coincides with the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the most important fair in the world in the field of children’s publishing.

Long Powwow Nights, written by David Bouchard and Pam Aleekuk and illustrated by Leonard Paul, has been selected for the First Nation Communities Read program as the book that First Nation communities and their libraries will celebrate during the 2010-2011 year. Published by Red Deer Press, Long Powwow Nights is also available in a French-Mi’kmaq edition, entitled Nuits de pow-wow (translated by Patsy Paul-Martin). Both editions include a CD with readings in both languages and music by Buffy Sainte-Marie.