Theytus is pleased to announce the award nominations, winners and honourable mentions of our books in the Benjamin Franklin Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the International Board on Books for Young People, the New York Book Festival, the San Francisco Book Festival and the Paris Book Festival.

The Benjamin Franklin Award is named in honor of America's most cherished publisher/printer, the Benjamin Franklin Awards™ recognizes excellence in independent publishing. Publications, grouped by genre are judged on editorial and design merit by top practitioners in each field.

• Silver Medal Winner in the Regional Category: People of the Land

The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is “the most exciting and rewarding book awards program open to independent publishers and authors worldwide who have a book written in English”. They have listed three of our titles:

• Children’s Picture Book Finalist: Just a Walk
• General Fiction/Novel Finalist: Porcupines and China Dolls
• Regional Non-Fiction Finalist: People of the Land

The New York Book Festival Competition has listed one of our titles:

• Children’s Runner-up: I See Me

The San Francisco Book Festival Competition listed four of our books in the following categories:

• Photography/Art Winner: People of the Land
• Children’s Honourable Mention: Just A Walk and Chuck in the City
• Teenage Honourable Mention: Deadly Loyalties

The International Board on Books for Young People is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together. The IBBY Honour List 2010 in the Canadian section for the quality of its translation. The winner will be announced in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on September 9, 2010.

• Honour List 2010 Nominee: Yamozha and His Beaver Wife

At the Paris Book Festival Competition, our books placed in the following categories:

• Children’s Runner-up: Just A Walk
• Children’s Honourable Mention: Chuck in the City

The Rabbits’ Race was selected by the First Nation Communities Read (FNCR) 2010 as a Highlighted Book and will be on its posters and leaflets. To order free posters of the FNCR selections, contact Patty at plawlor@sols.org

• Highlighted Book: The Rabbit's Race

Comment le Renard a Obtenu des Jambes Tordues is the French version of How the Fox Got His Crossed Legs both are now available!

The French and Dogrib version of How the Fox Got His Crossed Legs is now in stock. Both versions are part of the Dogrib Legends series, and includes an audio and interactive multimedia CD that can play on a CD player, PC or Mac. Also included is a Dogrib Elder telling his version of this ancient legend in Dogrib. An orthography chart is included.