FIREFLY is shortlisted for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award!

I am SO HONOURED to announce that FIREFLY has been shortlisted for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award 2022.

Here is a little about the award: 

• Two awards of $6,000 each are presented annually to recognize artistic excellence in writing and illustration in English-language Canadian children’s literature.
  
  
• The Schwartz Awards are the only Canadian literary award where student jurors work together to choose the winning books.

This is the first time one of my books has been shortlisted for this prestigious award, which is administered by the Ontario Arts Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council.  

Thank you to them and to my wonderful publisher, DCB Young Readers, who saw the potential in this story.

Author as FIREFLY

Here is the award announcement on CBC BOOKS.

And on the Quill and Quire website.

I am truly humbled and frankly, a little amazed, by the wonderful recognition that FIREFLY has received from the literary community in Canada. I am quite sure that my sister-in-law, the inspiration for the character Aunt Gayle and the creator of Thunder Thighs, one of Canada's largest film and television costume shops (and where my story is set), would be pretty amazed too! 

Thank you all. The winners will be announced in early June, 2022, good luck to all nominees! 

Here again is the LIST OF NOMINEES, great books all.

All posts about FIREFLY on this blog.