Announcing the Shortlist of the 2025 Joan Betty Stuchner — Oy Vey! — Funniest Children’s Book Award

The judging committee has stopped giggling long enough to announce the shortlisted books for the 2025 Joan Betty Stuchner — Oy Vey! — Funniest Children’s Book Award.

The winners will be  announced at a Zoom extravaganza on Scavenger Hunt Day, May 24. Every two years, two prizes of $752.81 are awarded to the Canadian books for children that tickled the judges’ funny bones the most.

Shortlist

Picture books

[in alphabetical order by author]

  • How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich in 17 Easy Steps, written and illustrated by Bambi Edlund, Owlkids
  • Squirrel-ish, written and illustrated by Bambi Edlund, Owlkids
  • Cone Dog, written by Sarah Howden, illustrated by Carmen Mok, Owlkids
  • The Island Before No, written by Christina Uss, illustrated by Christie Hudson, Tundra
  • Parker’s Place, written and illustrated by Russ Willms, Clarion

Chapter books

[in alphabetical order by author]

  • Izzy’s Dog Days of Summer, written by Caroline Adderson, illustrated by Kelly Collier, Kids Can
  • Pluto Rocket: New in Town, written and illustrated by Paul Gilligan, Tundra
  • Mortified, written by Kristy Jackson, illustrated by Rhael McGregor, HarperCollins
  • At the Speed of Gus, written by Richard Scrimger, Scholastic
  • Scaredy Squirrel Gets Festive, written and illustrated by Melanie Watt, Tundra

ABOUT JOAN BETTY STUCHNER

Joan Betty Stuchner was a children’s author who loved to make people laugh. She passed away unexpectedly in 2014. The Joan Betty Stuchner – Oy Vey! – Funniest Children’s Book Award honours her warm and generous spirit by encouraging authors and illustrators to keep her life-affirming humour alive.

For more information, visit http://www.joanbettystuchneraward.org.

From the Oy Vey! Committee

Cindy Heinrichs, Ellen Schwartz,

Nathalie Patel, Gina McMurchy-Barber,

Alison Acheson

Contact

Alison Acheson

alison@alisonacheson.com

or

Cindy Heinrichs

cindyheinrichs@yahoo.com