Award Nominees

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🏵️2025 Lane Anderson Awards

Amanda West Lewis for A Planet Is A Poem

🏵️CCBC 2025 Awards

Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award

Kathy Kacer for Two Pieces of Chocolate

Arlene Barlin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy

Casey Lyall for Waking the Dead and Other Fun Activities

Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction

Mary Beth Leatherdale for You Can Be an Activist: How to Use Your Strengths & Passions to Make a Difference

🏵️Forest of Reading Awards

BLUE SPRUCE

Monique Carlos for It’s OK Just Ask

SILVER BIRCH EXPRESS

Casey Lyall For The League of Littles

SILVER BIRCH FICTION

Jessica Renwick for Ghosts of Gastown

YELLOW CEDAR

Kari-Lynn Winters for Zoom in On Zombies

RED MAPLE

David Poulsen for The Dark Won’t Wait

Maria Marianayagam for No Purchase Necessary

Jessica Vitalis for Unsinkable Cayenne

WHITE PINE

E.K. Johnston for Titan of the Stars

🏵️Willow Awards

Diamond Willow Award

Caroline Fernandez for Plague Thieves

Snow Willow Award

Kathy Kacer for By Chance Alone

🏵️The Word Award 2025 for Books – Children

Karen Autio for I Can, Too!

🏵️High Plains International Book Award

Jessica Vitalis for Unsinkable Cayenne

🏵️2025 Paradigm Prize – Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Christian & General Market

Dana L Church for The Honey Trap

🏵️2025 BC Red Cedar Book Award

Rowena Rae for Why we Need Vaccines: How Humans Beat Infectious Diseases

Frances Backhouse for Owls: Who Gives a Hoot

🏵️2025  Victoria Children’s Book Prize

Rowena Rae for Why we Need Vaccines: How Humans Beat Infectious Diseases

🏵️Young Readers’ Choice Book Awards of British Columbia’s Red Cedar Award

Frances Backhouse for Owls: Who Gives a Hoot?