Philippa Dowding's Blog - Posts Tagged "ccbc"

I can't tell you (dear reader) how totally honoured I am that The Gargoyle at the Gates is a starred review book in the spring edition of the Canadian Children Book Centre's (CCBC) Best Books for Kids & Teens 2013. I simply cannot believe the awesome company that my book is in!
A few of the other starred reviews this year: Arthur Slade (Hunchback Assignments, bk 4), Deborah Ellis (Parvana's Journey), Cary Fagan (The Boy in the Box), Shane Peacock (Becoming Holmes) and Gordon Korman (Ungifted).
Thanks CCBC, very very honoured indeed.

I'm happy to say that The Gargoyle at the Gates is being reprinted this week. That's great news, although the first run wasn't huge, of course, it's always nice to hear that your book is selling well enough to reprint within the first year or in this case, within six months, of publication.
Very very honoured, thank you all for the support from the public and from nominating bodies like the Diamond Willow, Hackmatack and Red Cedar awards, as well as the CCBC and the International Youth Library in Munich. These reader's choice nominations and commendations are so welcome and appreciated by every author.
You'll know if you have a first edition of The Gargoyle at the Gates, since the first edition has a pull-quote on the front cover, from CM magazine. The reprint will not have the pull-quote on the front cover, but that will be the only difference. Happy indeed!

Thank you to the Canadian Children's Book Centre! Really honoured to say that my latest book, Everton Miles is Stranger than Me has been selected as a Best Book for Kids and Teens, Spring 2017.

Woot! Great news, for a magic realism tale about two completely ordinary teenagers with a strange gift.


Everton's story is the sequel to my Red Maple nominated title, The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, and together the books are The Night Flyer's Handbook series.

Here's a longer post about the commendation:
http://phdowding.blogspot.ca/2017/05/...

This post is a list of free resources for everyone working hard to keep kids entertained, enlightened, engaged at home right now.

There are several excellent Canadian book sites for kids, which offer interesting, fun, educator-approved resources for parents and teachers.

Here are two that are completely free, with Teacher's Guides, author's websites, virtual readings and more. (I'm focusing on Canada here, but American publishers and in fact most children's publishers have a website with free resources for kids, so check them out too.)

Ontario Library Association, Forest of Reading.
Website: https://forestofreading.com/school-ag...

Check out the Forest of Reading program, 1-hour online author talks, resources, games, crosswords, author websites, ideas to engage with books and much more, all completely free from the Ontario Library Association.

The Canadian Children's Book Centre
Website: https://bookcentre.ca/news/canadian-b...

The CCBC has just launched the new Read Canadian at Home: Resources for Parents resource on their website. LOTS of authors are linked, with resources, games, videos, book talks and much more, and more authors are joining in every day.

I hope this helps you engage your young readers. We can't hold each other right now, but until we can, it might help to hold a book.