TORONTO, Nov. 3, 2014 /CNW/ - In partnership with the Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC), TD Bank Group will honour the best in Canadian children's literature by announcing the winner and bestowing the coveted TD Canadian Children's Literature Award on November 6, 2014 at a ceremony in Toronto. The award recognizes the most distinguished English-language children's book of the year with a gift of $30,000. The remaining four finalists will share a prize of $10,000.
|
WHAT:
|
TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards Gala
|
|
|
|
|
|
WHERE:
|
The Carlu, Toronto
|
|
|
444 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON
|
|
|
|
|
|
WHEN:
|
Thursday, November 6, 2014
|
|
|
Presentations begin at 7:15 p.m.
|
|
|
|
|
WHO:
|
Kerry Peacock, Executive Vice President, TD Bank Group
|
|
Daryl Novak, President of the Board, Canadian Children's Book Centre
|
|
Charlotte Teeple, Executive Director, Canadian Children's Book Centre
|
|
|
|
The nominees for the English Canada TD Canadian Children's Literature Award:
|
|
|
|
|
Branded by the Pink Triangle
|
Once Upon a Northern Night
|
|
Written by Ken Setterington
|
Written by Jean E. Pendziwol
|
|
Second Story Press
|
Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
|
|
|
Groundwood Books
|
|
In the Tree House
|
|
|
Written by Andrew Larsen
|
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
|
|
Illustrated by Dušan Petričić
|
Written by Teresa Toten
|
|
Kids Can Press
|
Doubleday Canada
|
|
|
|
|
The Man with the Violin
|
|
|
Written by Kathy Stinson
|
|
|
Illustrated by Dušan Petričić
|
|
|
Annick Press
|
|
SOURCE TD Bank Group
To RSVP or for more information: Amanda Tran, TD Bank Group, 416-983-7212, amanda.tran@td.com; Sheri Papps, Paradigm Public Relations, 416-413-5207, spapps@paradigmpr.caCopyright CNW Group 2014