The Hans Christian Anderson Award is the highest international recognition give to an author and an illustrator of children’s books. Awarded every other year by IBBY, it recognizes lifelong achievement and is presented to creators whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children’s literature.
With patronage from Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and a sponsorship from Nami Island Inc., the Anderson Award recipients are selected by an international jury of children’s literature specialists.
The Author’s Award was first given out in 1956 and the first Illustrator’s Award was given in 1966. We are thrilled to announce that Isabelle Arsenault has been shortlisted for this year’s award – congratulations, Isabelle!
Colette’s Lost Pet
By Isabelle Arsenault
ISBN 9781101917596 | Hardcover
Ages 4-8 | Tundra Books
Colette is exploring her new neighborhood and wants to make friends. But when she encounters someone her age she’s never met before, she doesn’t know what to say—so she hastily invents a lost pet! Things spiral a bit out of control as a neighborhood-wide search party is assembled and Colette makes her pet bird more amazing with each telling. Will the neighborhood kids catch on to her ever-growing fib?
Albert’s Quiet Quest
By Isabelle Arsenault
ISBN 9781101917626 | Hardcover
Ages 4-8 | Tundra Books
There are so many distractions in Albert’s Mile End neighborhood, what’s a book-loving introvert to do? Desperate for a quiet place to read, Albert storms out to the alley behind his house where his friends and neighbors often meet to play, looking for a quiet place to read. And he almost does too, except for those meddling Mile End kids . . . who just want to have some fun, as LOUDLY as possible. Will Albert ever find a moment of quiet to enjoy his book? Or could his friends be looking for a book break of their own?