The McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award is associated with Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards

Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards

Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards is a gala, held annually in April in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrating the best of Manitoban publishing from the previous year...

 and was first sponsored by McNally Robinson

McNally Robinson

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 Booksellers in 1997 and since then has been given in two categories: Young Adult and Children. It is presented to the two Manitoba

Manitoba

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 writers whose books for young people are judged the best written. The two winning authors each receive a cash award.

Pre 1997 winners

• 1995 — Margaret Buffie, The Dark Garden
• 1996 — Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon, Tiktala

Young Adult category

• 1997 — Diana Wieler, RanVan: Magic Nation
• 1998 — Diana Wieler, Drive
• 1999 — Martha Brooks
  Martha Brooks
  Martha Brooks is an award-winning, Canadian writer of plays, novels, and short fiction. Her young adult novel True Confessions of a Heartless Girl won the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 2002....
  
  , Being with Henry
• 2000 — Linda Holeman, Raspberry House Blues
• 2001 — Eva Wiseman, My Canary Yellow Star
• 2002 — Linda Holeman, Search of the Moon King’s Daughter
• 2003 — Duncan Thornton, The Star-Glass
• 2004 — Margaret Buffie, The Finder
• 2005 — Diane Juttner Perreault, Breath of the Dragon
• 2006 — Larry Verstraete, Lost Treasures: True Stories of Discovery

Children category

• 1997 — Sheldon Oberman
  Sheldon Oberman
  Sheldon Oberman was an award-winning Canadian children's writer who lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Born in Winnipeg, Oberman grew up in the city's North End. After graduating from St. Johns High School, he studied literature first at the University of Winnipeg and then at the Hebrew University in...
  
  , By the Hanukkah Light
• 1998 — No award given
• 1999 — Colleen Sydor, Smarty Pants
• 2000 — No award given
• 2001 — Sheldon Oberman, The Wisdom Bird
• 2002 — No award given
• 2003 — Connie Colker Steiner, Shoes for Amélie
• 2004 — No award given
• 2005 — Colleen Sydor, Camilla Chameleon
• 2006 — Colleen Sydor, Raising a Little Stink

External links

• The McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award
• Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards - Brave New Words