2016 Children's Book Centre Awards Winners
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is thrilled to announce the winners of its seven English-language children’s book awards. The TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award was given to author Melanie Florence and illustrator François Thisdale, who will share the $30,000 prize, for their picture book Missing Nimâmâ (Clockwise Press); an additional $12,500 was divided between the winning book’s publisher and the creators of the other four nominated titles. Seven awards in total were given out: - See more at: http://bookcentre.ca/2016-ccbc-award-winners/#sthash.MnjeA2b8.dpuf Missing from our list Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You, written by Cory Silverberg and illustrated by Fiona Smyth, which won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction
