More than 250,000 readers participate in Ontario alone, and 6500 of them scream their heads off for the nominees at the announcement ceremony. These kid-juried prizes, which appear in just about every region of the country and are usually named after local trees, whip young readers into a frenzy over Canadian books. Back in Canada, the book industry is gearing up for the annual readers' choice awards ceremonies. Academic performances have gone up, the community is more involved with the school, and the students have fallen in love with reading. I had the chance to observe first hand how a simple library with just a few hundred books provided by the CBP (written by Tanzanians in Swahili) transformed a school in a Dar es Salaam neighbourhood where many children live on just a dollar a day. It's hard to quantify how important it is for kids to see themselves and where they live in their stories. Now, after three decades of hard work and a lot of public investment, we have a robust industry that produces more than 500 new titles annually. Back then, few books were published for kids in Canada so we read British and American stories. Choose the spacing you want to apply and click OK. Near the center of the dialog box you'll find the line spacing buttons that let you select single, 1.5x or double spaced. Right-click the style you want to change and select Modify. Use double-spacing throughout the entire paper.To add double-spacing in Microsoft Word, highlight all the text you want double-spaced. The CCBC was established in 1976, when I was three and most Canadian children's publishers were mere infants. Find the style you're using in the Styles gallery on the Home tab. Visiting the office of the Children's Book Project for Tanzania (CBP), which coordinates the Burt Award locally, I was struck but how similar it looked to photographs of the Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) back in the day, with its shiny wood fixtures and piles of books, posters and publishers catalogues. The award launches in Ghana and Ethiopia this year. The aim is to provide homegrown alternatives to works by foreign authors that will complement the many excellent books for young readers now available in Swahili and other African languages.
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Sponsored by retired Toronto businessman William Burt and administered by the literacy organization CODE and its local partners, the award promotes the creation of young adult novels by and for Africans in English, the language of education in many of the continent's secondary schools. Next month I return to Tanzania to serve a second term on the jury for the Burt Award for African Literature. Hadley Dyer, author of Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces (Kids Can Press) is guest blogging on The Afterword this week. Hadley Dyer: Book awards and less tangible rewards Share this Story: Hadley Dyer: Book awards and less tangible rewards
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