Chocolate Lily Awards picked by BC’s young readers

The Chocolate Lily Award, BC’s young readers’ choice award, was awarded in three categories on June 9, 2017. The Chocolate Lily Awards encourages grade school students to read and enjoy fiction by BC’s authors and illustrators.

The 2017 winners are: 

• Novel: Hannah & the Wild Woods by Carol Anne Shaw (Ronsdale Press)
• Chapter Book: The Blue Vase by Katarina Jovanovic (Tradewind Books)
• Picture Book: When Santa Was a Baby by Linda Bailey (Tundra)

These books shared incredible company on the shortlist, which included 20 nominated titles. In addition to being BC authored and illustrated, a number of these titles are also from local publishers!

2017 Novel Category Nominees (Grades 4–7)

• Seven Dead Pirates by Linda Bailey – Tundra Books
• Hannah & the Wild Woods by Carol Anne Shaw – Ronsdale Press
• Through Flood & Fire: A Second Barr Colony Adventure by Anne Patton – Coteau Books
• The Summer We Saved the Bees by Robin Stevenson – Orca Book Publishers
• Brother XII’s Treasure by Amanda Spottiswoode – Heritage House 

• Jasper John Dooley You’re in Trouble by Caroline Adderson – Kids Can Press
• Splash by Kallie George– Simply Read Books
• The Blue Vase by Katarina Jovanovic – Tradewind Books 
• Audrey Cow by Dan Bar-el – Tundra Books
• Bagels the Brave! by Joan Stuchner –Orca Book Publishers

• West Coast Wild by Deborah Hodge – Groundwood Books
• Stanley at School by Linday Bailey – Kids Can Press
• Melvis and Elvis by Dennis Lee & Jeremy Tankard illus. – Harper Collins
• A Boy Asked the Wind by Barbara Nickel – Red Deer Press 
• A Year of Borrowed Men by Michelle Barker – Pajama Press
• Peace is an Offering by Annette LeBox – Penguin
• When Santa was a Baby by Linda Bailey – Tundra
• Orca Chief by Roy Vickers & Robert Budd illus. – Harbour Publishing
• P’esk’a and the First Salmon Ceremony by Scot Ritchie – Groundwood Books
• Bad Pirate by Kari-Lynn Winters & Dean Griffins illus. – Pajama Press