FIREFLY gets a Starred Review and is a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book!

"This fantasy specialist's shift into realism is a triumph."

The Globe 100: The Books we Loved in 2021 
The Globe & Mail, December 2021
Full list also available in the newspaper print edition,
Saturday, Dec. 4th, 2021

The great news for FIREFLY just keeps coming, and it's been an amazing month. In this space I've shared that FIREFLY won the Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Text, and that it's an OLA Red Maple 2022 nominee.

The book has also just received a Starred Review in the Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books of 2021 (Fall Edition). The book was also named one of 9 Great Holiday Reads for Kids by CBC's The Next Chapter in December.

Author and her publisher, Nov. 17/2021

AND, the Globe and Mail newspaper chose the book as one of its top 100 books of the year, in the Young Adult Fiction section. 

The quote above is astonishing: a triumph.

I'm deeply moved by that, and couldn't be more honoured that Firefly's story is resonating with so many people. I hope that it resonates with you, too. 

Please, this year support your local bookstore, and as always, read Canadian (then tell the world what you thought)! 

Keep reading everyone, and shine bright, Firefly!

Signing with my beautiful new pen,
 a gift from my wonderful publisher

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FIREFLY WINS the Governor General's Literary Award 2021

 

FIREFLY has WON the Governor General's Literary Award 

for Young People's Literature (text) 2021!

I am so honoured, humbled, surprised, and frankly a little shaken up! So many thanks to my wonderful publisher, DCB Young Readers, parent company Cormorant, and to the Canada Council.

Here is the Governor General/Canada Council 2021 winners page: FIREFLY Wins

Here is the CBC page featuring all the 2021 finalists in the category: GG 2021

Here is Firefly's GG Wiki page 

I'm still a little speechless. I wonder how long it will take to sink in?

Many congratulations to fellow nominees for this award: Liselle Sambury, Angela Ahn, Sharon Jennings, and Basil and Kevin Sylvester. I loved their titles, and encourage everyone to read their wonderful books.

Author, Nov. 17, 2021
Signing books at her publisher's office

Soon, I will write more about this incredible meteorite which has landed in my lap. But today, I bask, because what else is a writer to do?! Thank you everybody. Firefly thanks you too.

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