Welcome to your March update! This month we're celebrating awards nominations for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award. Please see the sidebar for our nominated books!

We're also thrilled to see four Groundwood titles included in CCBC Choices 2012, the annual best-of-the-year list of the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC). The list includes: I'll Be Watching (Pamela Porter), Grandpa's Girls (Nicola I. Campbell, illustrated by Kim LaFave), Let's Go See Papa! (Lawrence Schimel, illustrated by Alba Marina Rivera), and No Ordinary Day (Deborah Ellis).

Two Groundwood titles were also announced as BC Book Prize finalists: I'll Be Watching has been shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize and Grandpa's Girls has been shortlisted for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize. 

Whew! Congratulations to all the authors and illustrators.
 

March Break time! 

Are you looking for books to recommend for March Break reading? Please visit our website or check out these lists:

Great Books for Girls (middle reader and YA)  

Nominated and Acclaimed Picture Books 

Marie-Louise Gay's Travels with my Family series (ages 7-10)  

Cooking Poems series (ages 4-7)  

Tim Wynne-Jones' Rex Zero series (ages 9-12)