You're Hired! Indigo Creates 'Kids' Council'
by Nathalie Atkinson, PW Daily for Booksellers -- Publishers Weekly, 11/23/2004
Canada's answer to Donald Trump may be Indigo Books & Music's "chief booklover" Heather Reisman, who last week in Toronto introduced the five winners of her Junior Booklover Contest. The promotion, launched over the summer, received over 3,000 book review entries from children aged 10 to 16 years. Each submission was reviewed and evaluated by a panel of judges based on the thoughts and ideas expressed about the books and characters as well as personal creativity.
The five winning young bibliophiles:
- Hannah Drew, 14, of London, Ontario, for a review of The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus Trilogy Book One by Jonathan Stroud
- Aaron Martin, 11, from Surrey, B.C., for his review of Frank Cottrel Boyce's Millions
- Katrina Sklepowish, 14, Winnipeg, Manitoba, for her review of Eoin Colfer's Supernaturalist
- Megan Stewart, 16, Charlottetown, P.E.I., for her review of Away Laughing on a Fast Camel by Louise Rennison
- Riley Tickles, 13, from Calgary, Alberta, also for Millions.
Each winner received a C$1,000 (about US$830) gift card from Indigo, official business cards, a trip for two to Toronto from Air Canada and Holiday Inn, a visit to the Webcom printing plant to learn how books are made and a book donation to their respective school libraries. The junior book critics serve on Indigo's first-ever "Junior Advisory Board," which unveiled its holiday book picks: Peter and the Starcatchers by Ridley Person and Dave Barry, Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure by P.B. Kerr and Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud.
Who knows, there may be a future Dale Peck in the bunch.
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