Missed It By This Much
Skim did not win the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature yesterday. The book, a graphic novel by cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, was beat out by John Ibbitson’s The Landing, a prose novel about life in 1930s Muskoka. In related categories, Sylvie Desrosiers’ Les trois lieues won in the French-language category. The winning illustrators were Stephane Jorisch (an adaptation of Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat) and Janice Nadeau (Ma meilleure amie, text by Gilles Tibo). See the full list of winners here.
See Neil Gaiman (bottom item), The Vancouver Sun and Heidi MacDonald for more reactions to the controversy surrounding Skim‘s nomination.
(above Jillian Tamaki illo: a James Bond article on cbc arts)