ABOUT THAT NIGHT by Norah McClintock is shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada 2015 Arthur Ellis Award in the category Best Juvenile/YA Book . As the reviewer in Quill & Quire says: “…When the resolution arrives (after a requisite and admirable amount of misdirection), it is surprising and satisfying, the hallmark of a well-written mystery.”…
Category: Awards
Yet MORE Kudos for THIS ONE SUMMER!
We are very pleased to announce that AQUEL VERANO, the Spanish edition of THIS ONE SUMMER, by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, has been nominated in the category of “Best Foreign Work published in Spain” at the Barcelona International Comic Fair next month. THIS ONE SUMMER has proved to be a very international work and has won numerous prizes,…
THE CARNIVAL AT BRAY Snaps Up Three Prizes!
It’s awards time in the USA, and THE CARNIVAL AT BRAY by Jessie Ann Foley (Elephant Rock Books) has been named a Michael L. Printz Award Honors Book! In 1993, Maggie is dismayed to leave Chicago and her beloved Uncle Kevin behind when she moves to a small Irish town. Yet it is within this evocative…
More good news for First Second!
THIS ONE SUMMER Tops PW Comics World’s 2014 Critics Poll By PW Staff | Dec 17, 2014 “A slowly unfolding tale of a lazy summer as unforgettable for readers as for the characters in its pages, This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki has topped our 2014 Critics Poll with six votes. Already…
Yet another prize nomination for THIS ONE SUMMER!
The French edition of THIS ONE SUMMER (Cet été là) has just been nominated for the 2015 Prix Artémisia for women’s graphic novels. For détails of the prize, click here.
More Kudos for THIS ONE SUMMER!!!
This One Summer is a Time Top Ten YA Book of the Year! “Charcoal-and-ink illustrations beautifully capture the heartbreak of family depression, and the growing pains a child feels entering scary, thrilling teenagerdom.” Link: http://time.com/3600001/top-10-ya-books/ Time has chosen a total of thirty books as their top titles of the year – ten fiction, ten nonfiction,…
Break out the bubbly!
THIS ONE SUMMER has won the Canadian Governor General’s Prize in the Children’s Literature illustration category! Congratulations to Jillian and Mariko Tamaki! And also to the publishers First Second Books and Groundwood Books and the authors’ agents, The Rights Factory in Toronto.
THIS ONE SUMMER Wins the Ignatz!
Congratulations to cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, whose graphic novel THIS ONE SUMMER (from First Second) has won the 2014 Ignatz Award for Best Graphic Novel. The Ignatz is one of the three most important, prestigious awards in the American comics industry. THIS ONE SUMMER is published in France by Rue de Sèvres, in Italy…
Paul Pope gets yet another prize for BATTLING BOY!
Paul Pope with his Eisner at San Diego Comicon in July 2014. Last weekend, Paul Pope won the Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist for Battling Boy. This comes hot on the heels of his San Diego Comicon Eisner Award win, also for Battling Boy, and just before the release of The Rise of Aurora West.
BATTLING BOY wins an Eisner!
BATTLING BOY won the presitigious Eisner Award for Best Comic for Teens at the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend. Congratulations to author Paul Pope and publisher First Second Books! (BATTLING BOY is published in France by Dargaud, in Spain by Penguin Random House and in Italy by Bao.)
Lora Fountain Literary Agency 