Each year the OLA Best Bets Committee selects the top 10 Canadian picture books, fiction and non fiction for children and fiction for teens. The list will be featured at OLA Superconference at the Child and Youth Expo session on Friday, February 4 at 2:10 pm. Here are the Tundra titles that made the 2010 lists:
Junior Fiction:
Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom by Susin Nielsen
Honourable Mention to The Secret Fiend by Shane Peacock
Junior Non Fiction:
Honourable Mention to Hudson by Janice Weaver, illustrated by David Craig
Young Adult Fiction:
Folly by Marthe Jocelyn
Honourable Mention to Winter Shadows by Margaret Buffie
Tundra will also be hosting author signings at our booth: #720
Thursday, February 3, 2011:
- 11:00 am Marthe Jocelyn will be signing chapbooks of “Scribbling Women” and F&Gs of Ones and Twos.
- 12:00 pm Susin Nielsen will be signing Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom.
- 12:45 pm Heather Hartt-Sussman will be signing F&Gs of Noni Says No.
- 1:30 pm Cyndi Sand-Eveland will be signing Dear Toni.
- 3:30 pm Rina Singh and Farida Zaman will be signing Nearly Nonsense.
Friday, February 4, 2011:
- 10:00 am Monica Kulling will be signing F&Gs of Merci Mister Dash!
- 12:00 pm Ed Butts will be signing Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes.
- 1:00 pm Christopher Moore will be signing From Then to Now.
Signing times are subject to change. We are giving away a limited number of F&Gs, chapbooks, and books, it would be best to arrive on time to line-up! See you there!
Thanks for these! Will be sure to add some Oh MG YA Canada list of recommended reads. And the others to my to read list in general! Enjoy the expo!
Excellent selection of authors — will hopefully be able to attend some of the signings in between sessions : )
Congrats on those titles making the list!
Wish I could be at OLA this year; last year was a blast.