2023-2024 Nominees Printable List To find Red Cedar Book Award resources, including downloads, please click on the book’s cover image. To learn more about the nominees, click on the book, creators, and publisher links. Cover Title Author Illustrator Publisher Pub Date Apartment 713 Kevin Sylvester Harper Collins Canada 2022 Autumn Bird and the Runaway Melanie …
Hello Red Cedar, Like all of you, we’ve had to switch some stuff up this year because of things far beyond our control. Because we know that some of your Groups and classes will be working from very different spaces – hopefully spaces that look and feel a lot more like home – we will …
For Red Cedar Leaders! A message from Sigmund Brouwer: The presentation, Vimy Ridge Today, tells the story of how Canadians succeeded (without any spoilers for the students reading the book!). Along the way, I encourage students to use story as foundation in their own expository writing. I also celebrate the ways that teachers in the …
Where did you get your idea to write about a boy in the Middle Ages? [Note: It’s actually the Age of Exploration—Middle Ages ends in the 15th century] From my research. I chose 1660s London specifically because it was such a rich time of plots, conspiracies, and secrets, as enemies struggled against each other for …
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It’s almost time to vote for your winner. Children can cast their vote for the Red Cedar Book Award winner from April 19-30. We’re very excited that the Red Cedar Awards Gala for 2018 will be Sunday, June 3 in Vancouver. Come meet other young readers, present short skits on your favorite book, listen to …
How did you come up with your characters? Usually I start with a situation or a premise and I slot in a character who is very much like me to start with. As I write I kind of carve away my own personality and carve in a new personality if that makes sense. Sometimes …
Share your Group Activities! We’d love to feature your book displays, posters, crafts, events and book trailers on our social media streams (Twitter & Instagram). Send your pictures and video links to redcedaraward@gmail.com Documents Writing a Good Review Reading Logs Evaluation Forms Goals and Ranking Preparing Author Visits List of Past Winners Forms Sticker Order …
We had a wonderful afternoon at our Gala on May 6, and were so grateful to share the day with so many wonderful students, teachers and writers. In the end, the winners were Kevin Sands for The Blackthorn Key and Julia Coey for Animal Hospital! We are especially grateful to our generous sponsors for the …
Students from Mile 108 got more than they bargained for when they sent interview questions to Linda Bailey, author of the pirate tale Seven Dead Pirates. Linda was joined by a…. ummm…. special guest in answering their thoughtful questions. Ahoy, Lynn McArthur and her pirate crew! I hear ye be a scurvy band of scoundrels, …
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Students from Ecole Heather Park Elementary in Prince George had the opportunity to interview the wonderfully talented Kenneth Oppel, author of The Nest. EHPE: What inspired you to write the book, The Nest? KO: A whole bunch of things. I had a title, and I wishlist of creepy things I wanted in my story: a …
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