Red Cedar Book Award

While searching around Richard Scrimger’s web site, I found a note that “From Charlie’s Point of View” was nominated for the 2008 Red Cedar Award. After our class discussion on awards I decided to look up what this award was. I found that this award is actually awarded by the children who read these books. The books are by Canadian authors and the intention of the award is to get children reading books by these authors. There is a web site (Link at the bottom) in which there is a “bookcase” that holds the all of the books nominated. Children who read all of the books are eligible to vote for their favorite book and the book with the most votes is given the award. Children in the fourth through seventh grades are allowed to participate in this.

I thought that after our discussion about book awards that this was a really interesting way to award an author and award. The voters are the children, whom the books are in effect written for, and they get to vote on their favorite. I was curious however, as to how the nomination process for these books happened though. Overall I thought this was a very interesting award and I figured that others in the class might want to look into it too, since it correlates with the awards topics we discussed a few weeks ago.

Link to information about award…
http://www.bookcentre.ca/awards/award_ind/awards.php?award=redcedar

Link to a previous years “nomination bookshelf”… (I thought this was a really cool set up)
http://www.redcedaraward.ca/

Link to Richard Scrimger’s Web Site…http://www.scrimger.ca/home.htm