The Simone Wood Award, 2009

Sharing Books is pleased to announce the Simone Wood Award for Children’s Literature. Simone Wood was an avid supporter of dance and her family have launched this award on Simone’s birthday to honour her life-long passion that she gave to successive generations.

The Simone Wood Award is available to any book creators who publish their work through Sharing Books. Eligible works must be focused on dance, dance themes, and/or the history and development of dance. Any of the children's books published on Sharing Books from April 3rd 2009 to May 31st 2009, with dance as their primary focus, will be automatically entered in the contest for the Simone Wood Award for Children’s Literature. This is a juried award, and a jury of content reviewers will determine whether the works submitted fall within the content guidelines.

The award will be given to the three most downloaded books on the Sharing Books site during the month of June, 2009 as follows:
• First Place award of $300 Canadian to the most downloaded book in June
• Second Place award of $200 Canadian to the second most downloaded book in June
• Third Place award of $100 Canadian to the third most downloaded book in June

Awards will be divided equally between the author and illustrator of illustrated works, or in granted in whole to the author in non-illustrated works.

Simone Wood Award, 2009 Eligibility Guidelines

1) The work must have a 'dance' focus. The work must contain content focused on dance, dance movements, dance culture, cultural dances, or dance history that forms the core or pivotal point of the work. There is no restriction on the type of dance, or the nature or approach to dance that is taken in the work.

Examples of eligible works would be:
• A story about a child going to their first ballet class.
• A mythological story about dance gods or goddesses.
• A story about a teacher running a dance pageant at her school.
• A picture book that shows a performance in visual and poetic form.

2) The work must be geared towards children.

3) Works must be submitted to Sharing Books between April 3rd 2009 and May 31st 2009. Works that are submitted, but not published and awaiting approval to go on the site by May 31st 2009 will still be eligible to enter the contest for the Simone Wood Award for Children’s Literature, 2009.

4) All submitted works will be chosen for eligibility by a team of jurors.

5) Winners are chosen based on the downloads of the books from 12:00am June 1st, 2009 to 11:59pm June 30th, 2009 PST.

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