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Comments for the Canadian Book Challenge #5
The Canadian Book Challenge #6: 06/27/11
July 1st is Canada Day and it means the start of the Canadian Book Challenge. It's my favorite of all the book blog challenges. I've been participating since 2009, the year my Canadian niece was born. The goal is to read and review 13 books in that year. For the last challenge I read seven extra books. I hope to match and possibly beat that amount for Challenge 6.
This year was a little different. John Mutford, the host of the challenge had a logo design contest. He wanted:
Also, I have a thing for maple leaves, but it's not a prerequisite. I'm looking for something obviously Canadian and stereotypes are not discouraged. Something that involves books would be nice. Something catchy and original. I like a lot of Canadian graphic novelists-- Seth, Chester Brown, Jeff Lemire, Jillian Tamaki. Something in a similar style might be cool.
And so following his instructions I came up with the doughnut eating Mountie in the style of Jeff Lemire. It ended up being the winning entry. Woohoo! But mostly, though, I'm in for the reading!
As always, I'm including last year's completed books in case you want an idea of what to read. Here are 2010-11 and 2009-10 lists.
2011-12 List of Completed Books:
- Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
- Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan
- Stella, Princess of the Sky by Marie-Louise Gay
- The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson
- City of Spies by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan
- Vampire Theory by Lily Caracci
- The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- The Pepins and Their Problems by Polly Horvath
- Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock
- The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
- Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
- The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
- Imagine a Place by Sarah L. Thomson and Rob Gonsalves
- No Castles Here by ACE Bauer
- Restoring Harmony by Joëlle Anthony
- Spectra by Joanne Elder
- A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
- Imagine a Night by Sarah L. Thomson and Rob Gonsalves
2012-13 List of Completed Books:
- Spork by Kyo Maclear
- Everything on a Waffle (audio) by Polly Horvath
- The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear and illustrated by Anne Mortimer
- One Moon, Two Cats by Laura Godwin
- Enter, Night by Michael Rowe
- One Year in Coal Harbor by Polly Horvath
- Imagine a Day by Sarah L. Thomson and Rob Gonsalves
- Binky to the Rescue by Ashley Spires
- The Lowdown on Denim by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
- The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
- Lost Cities by Dale Peck
- Monoculture by FS Michaels
- I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
- Sarah Emma Edmonds Was a Great Pretender by Carrie Jones
- Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
- This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
- Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs
- The Honeybee Man by Lela Nargi and Kyrsten Brooker (Canadian illustrator)
- Planting Dandelions by Kyran Pittman
- One False Note by Gordon Korman
- Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks
- I Am Half-Sick Of Shadows by Alan Bradley
- Zed: A Cosmic Tale by Michel Gagné
- Airborn by Kenneth Oppel