{"id":4770,"date":"2003-05-07T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2022-02-12T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:35:05","slug":"ruth-schwartz-childrenis-book-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/ruth-schwartz-childrenis-book-award-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No French article"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toronto, May 7, 2003<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Deux jurys d'\u00e9l\u00cbves de\u00a0<\/span>Rose Avenue Public School<\/strong>\u00a0in Toronto, Ontario, today announced the winners of the 2003\u00a0<\/span>prix Ruth Schwartz de litt\u00e9rature jeunesse<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>This year the prize money has been doubled from $5,000 to\u00a0<\/span>$10,000<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>

Grade 4 students awarded the children’s\u00a0picture book<\/strong>\u00a0prize to\u00a0The Night Walker<\/strong>\u00a0written by Richard Thompson, illustrated by Martin Springett.\u00a0 The author and illustrator each received\u00a0$3,000<\/strong>.\u00a0 Author Deborah Ellis received\u00a0$4,000<\/strong>\u00a0for her book\u00a0Parvana’s Journey<\/strong>, the winner of the\u00a0Livre pour jeunes lecteurs<\/strong>\u00a0book category.<\/p>

This national award \u00f3 one for a children’s picture book and one for a young adult\/middle reader book \u00f3 recognizes authors and illustrators from across Canada who demonstrate artistic excellence in children’s literature.\u00a0<\/p>

Five students in grade 4 chose\u00a0The Night Walker<\/strong>\u00a0as the best picture book because it was \u00ecpartly a mystery and partly funny.\u00ee\u00a0 One student said of the illustrations that it was \u00ecas though the illustrator had read the author’s mind.\u00ee\u00a0\u00a0 Five students in grades 6 chose\u00a0Parvana’s Journey<\/strong>, the sequel to\u00a0The Breadwinner<\/strong>, as the best young adult\/middle reader book, saying that it \u00ecshows compassion\u00ee and \u00ecmade us think we should be happy with what we have.\u00ee\u00a0<\/p>

At the\u00a0Rose Avenue Public School<\/strong>\u00a0event, The Ruth Schwartz Foundation also presented complete sets of the\u00a038<\/strong>\u00a0winning Ruth Schwartz books to the principals of\u00a0nine\u00a0<\/strong>downtown Toronto schools and Bobcaygeon Public School.\u00a0<\/p>

The Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award was established in 1976 by Sylvia Schwartz in honour of her sister, the late Ruth Schwartz, a respected Toronto bookseller. Each year, the\u00a0Conseil des arts de l'Ontario<\/strong>\u00a0selects an Ontario school to provide the juries for the prizes. The administration of this award is shared by the\u00a0Conseil des arts de l'Ontario<\/strong>, which selects the juries, the\u00a0Fondation du Conseil des arts de l'Ontario<\/strong>, et\u00a0l'Association des libraires canadiens,<\/strong>(dont les membres s\u00e9lectionnent les livres finalistes).<\/p>

OAC Media Contact:\u00a0<\/strong>Kirsten Gunter, Manager of Communications
Tel:<\/strong>\u00a0(416) 969-7403.\u00a0Toll-free outside of Toronto:<\/strong>\u00a01-800-387-0058, ext. 7403.
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Toronto, May 7, 2003\u00a0\u00f3 Two student juries from\u00a0Rose Avenue Public School\u00a0in Toronto, Ontario, today announced the winners of the 2003\u00a0Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This year the prize money has been doubled from $5,000 to\u00a0$10,000.\u00a0 Grade 4 students awarded the children’s\u00a0picture book\u00a0prize to\u00a0The Night Walker\u00a0written by Richard Thompson, illustrated by Martin Springett.\u00a0 The author and illustrator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}