![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “My husband and I are both novelists,’’ she said with a laugh. The 39-year-old mother of two young children - who works part-time translating scientific jargon into English for Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute - said that even with her $25,000 prize, she won’t be giving up her day job any time soon. ![]() Obviously, it doesn’t guarantee anything, but it certainly turns the right heads.’’ “This is a first novel for me - this is something that came to me a lot faster than I thought it would.’ “I’m a little bit happy and quite a bit stunned.’’ “It’s like being hit over the head with a happy bat,’’ Bow said in an interview after her win. Kate is a stalwart, engaging heroine, and Bow vividly evokes a soggy countryside of birch trees, babbling rivers and colourful travelling Roamers in this memorable fantasy. TORONTO - Plain Kate, a first children’s novel by Erin Bow of Kitchener, won the $25,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award on Tuesday night after being deemed best children’s book of the year by its judges.īow conjures a Slavic-inspired ghost and fairytale world in the book (Scholastic, 314 pages, $19.99, ages 11 and up) as the setting for the adventures of plain Kate, who is driven into the wilderness when a creepy magician tricks her into bargaining away her shadow. ![]()
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