1 April 2018: THIS IS NOT A JOKE! Really…
Announcing the second bi-annual Joan Betty Stuchner — Oy Vey! — Funniest Children’s Book Award! TWO prizes now!
Joan Betty Stuchner, beloved children’s author and teacher, passed away unexpectedly in 2014. Joan was many things — brave, gracious, warm, generous, kind and absolutely hilarious to boot. (“Oy vey!” she’s probably saying now…) With this pair of awards we honour Joan’s life-affirming humour and encourage other children’s writers to laugh it up on the page the way she did.
The $752.81 x 2 Joan Betty Stuchner — Oy Vey! — Funniest Children’s Book Award will be presented biannually to a Canadian author or illustrator of the work of juvenile writing that had the jury most buckled over with guffaws, incapacitated with giggles, and/or rib-ticklingly, side-splittingly, thigh-slappingly entertained in these two categories:
- A board or picture book
- A book with lots more words than pictures
Eligible works:
- board books
- picture books
- chapter books
- graphic novels
- juvenile fiction and non-fiction (suitable for readers up to grade 7)
- created by Canadian authors and/or illustrators permanently residing in Canada
- published between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2018
- written in English
Ineligible works:
- young adult fiction
- self-published titles
Submission requirements:
Please send 3 copies of the work along with a completed application form to:
The Joan Betty Stuchner OyVey Funniest Children’s Book Award
6637 Emerson Street, Burnaby BC V5E 1W5
Please include a $25 submission fee per title by PayPal or a cheque payable to “JBS Oy Vey Award”
Submission deadline: International Bologna Day, 24 October, 2018
The second Joan Betty Stuchner Oy Vey Funniest Children’s Book Awards will be presented at a special ceremony in Spring 2019.
Sincerely,
The Joan Betty Stuchner — Oy Vey! — Funniest Children’s Book Award Committee
Caroline Adderson, Cindy Heinrichs, Kathryn Shoemaker, Ellen Schwartz