Announcing the Second Bi-annual Joan Betty Stuchner Oy Vey Funniest Children’s Book Awards

1 April 2018: THIS IS NOT A JOKE! Really

Announcing the second bi-annual Joan Betty Stuchner — Oy Vey! — Funniest Children’s Book Award! TWO prizes now!

Joan Betty Stuchner, beloved children’s author and teacher, passed away unexpectedly in 2014. Joan was many things — brave, gracious, warm, generous, kind and absolutely hilarious to boot.  (“Oy vey!” she’s probably saying now…) With this pair of awards we honour Joan’s life-affirming humour and encourage other children’s writers to laugh it up on the page the way she did.

The $752.81 x 2 Joan Betty Stuchner — Oy Vey! — Funniest Children’s Book Award will be presented biannually to a Canadian author or illustrator of the work of juvenile writing that had the jury most buckled over with guffaws, incapacitated with giggles, and/or rib-ticklingly, side-splittingly, thigh-slappingly entertained in these two categories:

  1. A board or picture book
  2. A book with lots more words than pictures

Eligible works:

  • board books
  • picture books
  • chapter books
  • graphic novels
  • juvenile fiction and non-fiction (suitable for readers up to grade 7)
  • created by Canadian authors and/or illustrators permanently residing in Canada
  • published between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2018
  • written in English

Ineligible works:

  • young adult fiction
  • self-published titles

Submission requirements:

Please send 3 copies of the work along with a completed application form to:

The Joan Betty Stuchner OyVey Funniest Children’s Book Award

6637 Emerson Street, Burnaby BC V5E 1W5

 Please include a $25 submission fee per title by PayPal or a cheque payable to “JBS Oy Vey Award”

 Submission deadline: International Bologna Day, 24 October, 2018

The second Joan Betty Stuchner Oy Vey Funniest Children’s Book Awards will be presented at a special ceremony in Spring 2019.

Sincerely,

The Joan Betty Stuchner — Oy Vey! — Funniest Children’s Book Award Committee

Caroline Adderson, Cindy Heinrichs, Kathryn Shoemaker, Ellen Schwartz