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 lists were announced at OLA Superconference today. Here are the Tundra titles that made the 2011 lists:
Non Fiction:
- In the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps it Up by Monica Kulling, illustrated by David Parkins
- Honourable mention goes to the Body Works series by Liza Fromer and Francine Gerstein MD, illustrated by Joe Weissmann
Young Adult:
- Honourable mention goes to First Descent by Pam Withers
- Honourable mention goes to “Scribbling Women” by Marthe Jocelyn is a noteworthy title (there’s isn’t a nonfiction category)
Picture Book:
- Honourable mention goes to Noni Says No by Heather Hartt-Sussman, illustrated by Geneviève Côté
Junior Fiction:
- Honourable mention goes to Stones for My Father by Trilby Kent
Congratulations to our authors and illustrators!
Hip-hip hooray!
I haven’t read any of these – clearly, I need too.