Can you be just a little over the moon? No. Which is why I'm a LOT over the moon to have been named the winner of the 2012 Lane Anderson Award for Science Writing, in the Children's Books category for The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea.
The winner in the Adult category is Neil Turok for The Universe Within.
Congrats to Neil and to everyone who participated in this great event! And a huge thanks to the Fitzhenry Family for endowing this award and highlighting the central role of science in our lives.
Here are the deets from the official announcement:
$10,000 Lane Anderson Award Winners
Celebrating the Best Science Writing in
Canada
Toronto. 26th
September, 2013: The Fitzhenry
Family Foundation announced the winners of the 2012 Lane Anderson Award.
Finalists and winners were feted at an intimate dinner in Toronto.
The annual Lane Anderson Award,
now in its fourth year, honours excellence in Canadian science writing, by
highlighting two jury-selected books – one addressed to adult readers, the
other written for children and/or middle grade readers. Authors of the
winning books each receive $10,000.
There were a total of 20
submissions for this year’s award.
“We established this award because
we believe passionately that science writing, and science reporting is vitally
important for every Canadian today. Science writing, research, and
knowledge impacts the ways in which we live now, the ways our children will
live in future, and the ways in which our children’s children will live their
lives. As Canadians, we do not pay enough attention to science. We take it for
granted. The Lane Anderson Award is dedicated towards removing that
indifference, two books at a time. We thank all of the authors and publishers
and judges who are helping us pass along this message. It needs to be heard and
heeded.”
- Hollister Doll & Sharon
Fitzhenry Directors, Fitzhenry Family Foundation
The annual Lane Anderson Award
honours two jury-selected books, in the categories of adult and young reader,
published in the field of science, and written by a Canadian. The winner in
each category receives $10,000.
The 2012 Lane Anderson Prize
Winners are:
The most anticipated nonfiction
book of the season, this year's Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way
the human mind can shape the future. Neil Turok is one of the world’s top
physicists and founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
(AIMS). He is currently the Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics.
Based on the idea that knowledge
is power, The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea shows how the ocean
works and why this immense ecosystem needs our protection. Experiments using
everyday materials help explain the scientific concepts. Helaine Becker is a
bestselling writer of children’s fiction, nonfiction and verse.
The two juries meet annually to
consider all the submissions to the Lane Anderson Award and comprise editors,
librarians, and previous Lane Anderson winners.
The Lane Anderson designation
honours the maiden names of Robert Fitzhenry’s mother, Margaret Lane, and his
wife, Hilda Anderson Fitzhenry. The Fitzhenry Family Foundation is a
privately directed Canadian foundation established in 1987 by Canadian
publisher Robert I. Fitzhenry (1918-2008). The Lane Anderson Award is
administered by Christopher Alam, a partner at the law firm of Gowling Lafleur
Henderson LLP.
Debby de Groot
647.295.2970
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