WCA is happy to announce that Ian Brown’s The Boy in the Moon has been named a Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of 2011. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/12/best_books_of_2011_the_top_10.html
The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction announced on Monday its first-ever “long list” of titles contending for its top honour in 2012.
The short list will be announced on Jan. 10, 2012 and the winner on March 5, 2012.
Contenders for the $25,000 prize include titles by three WCA authors:
The Patrol: Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan, by Ryan Flavelle
Nation Maker: Sir John A. MacDonald: His Life, Our Times Volume Two: 1867-1891, by Richard Gwyn
Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism, by Joel Yanofsky
WCA would like to congratulate all those nominated.
WCA is totally thrilled to announce that Ian Brown’s stunning The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son was named one of the New York Times’ Top Ten Books of the Year.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/10-best-books-of-2011.html?_r=1&hp
And for Ian’s NYT review, please visit:
WCA is thrilled to report that five WCA titles have been named to The Globe & Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2011 list. The list follows:
Into the Heart of the Country, by Pauline Holdstock
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, by Zsuzsi Gartner
Alone in the Classroom, by Elizabeth Hay
Winter: Five Windows on the Season – the CBC Massey Lectures, by Adam Gopnik
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867 -1891, by Richard Gwyn
For more information, please visit:
WCA is happy to announce that Heather Hart-Sussman’s Noni Says No has been nominated by the Ontario Librarians Association for a Blue Spruce in the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading.
For more information about the author, please visit: http://www.heatherhartt.com/home/