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National Awards: French Titles
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PRIX ALVINE-BÉLISLE
(Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation)
For the best book of the year.

Pleine crise

Pleine crise

Claudine Farcy
Saint-Lambert, Quebec: Héritage, 1991
226 p. ISBN 2762567580
Ages 12 and up

Marlene is a country girl who leaves her home to attend high school at a convent run by strict nuns. In the throes of adolescence, she finds it painful to uproot herself, but her irresistible sense of humour helps her to overcome many difficulties.


PRIX CÉCILE-ROULEAU
(Association canadienne d'éducation de langue française)
For a manuscript (13 years and up).
None awarded in 1992.





PRIX DU LIVRE M. CHRISTIE
(Christie Brown & Co.)
For the best book (8 years and under).

Le Gros Problème du petit Marcus

Le Gros Problème du petit Marcus

Gilles Gauthier
Illustrations: Pierre-André Derome
Montreal: La Courte Échelle, 1992
62 p. ISBN 2890211789
Ages 8 to 10

Little Marcus tells his friend Jenny a secret that is too big to keep to himself. It explains why he agrees to play the clown in a school play. He uses the role to try to attract the attention of someone he likes very much. Who do you think it is?



PRIX DU LIVRE M. CHRISTIE
(Christie Brown & Co.)
For the best text (9 to 14 years).

Un Hiver de tourmente

Un Hiver de tourmente

Dominique Demers
Montreal: La Courte Échelle, 1992
156 p. ISBN 2890211711
Ages 9-14

Marie-Lune lives in a very isolated spot. Going through a very difficult time for an adolescent girl, she is besotted with Antoine, and the relationship is causing problems with her mother. She has two very good friends: Sylvie, whom she considers almost a sister, and Fernande, who is also going through a period of very intense change.



PRIX DU LIVRE M. CHRISTIE
(Christie Brown & Co.)
For the best illustrations.

C'est pas juste!

C'est pas juste!

Dominique Jolin
Illustrations: Dominique Jolin
Saint-Hubert, Quebec: Éditions du Raton laveur, 1992
23 p. ISBN 2920660233
Ages 3-8

A richly illustrated short story on the frustrations of a little girl. She complains to her father because it isn't "fair" that her friends have everything and she has nothing interesting. Except...



PRIX ELIZABETH MRAZIK-CLEAVER POUR LE MEILLEUR LIVRE D'IMAGES CANADIEN
(L'Union internationale pour les livres de jeunesse-Canada)
For best illustrations.

Waiting for the Whales

Waiting for the Whales

Sheryl McFarlane
Illustrations: Ron Lightburn
Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book, 1991
31 p. ISBN 0920501664
Ages 5-10

A lonely old man watches the whales arrive every summer from his cedar-shingled cottage on a bluff by the sea. One crisp spring day his daughter and grandaughter come to live with him. The baby girl grows up learning about nature from her grandfather. When the old man dies, the mother and daughter continue to watch for the whales. The next summer a baby whale is spotted and so the life-cycle continues. Award-winning illustrations add to the text.



PRIX LITTÉRAIRE DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL/LITTÉRATURE DE JEUNESSE
(Conseil des Arts du Canada)
For the best text.

Victor

Victor

Christiane Duchesne
Montreal: Quebec/Amérique, 1992
158 p. ISBN 2890375927
Ages 10 and up

The miser and the snake live in Victor's dreams and calm his fears. Victor also confides his fears to his friend Six, the pig. Victor does not believe that the Earth is round; he thinks it is flat like a plate. Frightened by the idea that Mrs. Belon might fall into a bottomless pit on her trip around the world, he decides to build a picket fence along the edge of the Earth. So Victor leaves with the miser and the snake on a search for the end of the Earth.



PRIX LITTÉRAIRE DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL/LITTÉRATURE DE JEUNESSE
(Conseil des Arts du Canada)
For the best illustrations.

Simon et la ville de carton

Simon et la ville de carton

Gilles Tibo
Illustrations: Gilles Tibo
Montreal: Livres Toundra, 1992
24 p. ISBN 0887762905
Ages 3-5

Simon loves boxes. Among other things, Simon makes houses for his animal friends out of them. Upset that they will not stay in their new box homes, Simon visits Jack-in-the-Box who advises him to find something else to do with them. He puts the boxes to good use collecting the litter in the forest with the help of all his friends. Beautiful illustrations enhance the text.



PRIX RAYMOND-BEAUCHEMIN
(Association canadienne d'éducation de langue française)
For a manuscript for children 8 to 12 years.
None awarded in 1992.



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