Alcuin Society’s best-designed CDN books of 2017
The Alcuin Society has announced the winners of its 36th annual competition, The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, held Saturday March 17th, 2018. Awards will be presented this fall in both Toronto and Vancouver. The winning books will be entered in the international book design competition in Leipzig, Germany in February 2019. They will be exhibited in Germany at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs; in Japan, at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, in conjunction with the Tokyo International Book Fair; and in almost every province of Canada. The venues are listed on the Alcuin web site. This year’s judges, Sue Colberg, Shelley Gruendler, and Frank Viva, selected 38 winning titles from 235 submissions, from 10 provinces and 107 publishers. This year’s book design winners are:
Colette's Lost Pet
Boundless
Dear Ghost,
Admission Requirements
The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
The Only Café
A Novel
Demi-Gods
They Desire a Better Country / Ils desirent une patrie meilleure
The Order of Canada in 50 Stories / L'Ordre du Canada en 50 histoires
The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated
A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Birds Art Life
Remembering Air India
The Art of Public Mourning
Memoirs of a Muhindi
Fleeing East Africa for the West
The Preservatory
Seasonally Inspired Recipes for Creating and Cooking with Artisanal Preserves: A Cookbook
The First Mess Cookbook
Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes to Eat Well Through the Seasons
The Inviting Life
An Inspirational Guide to Homemaking, Hosting and Opening the Door to Happiness