Congratulations to my friend Cynthia!Author Bill Richardson and illustrator Cynthia Nugent receive the 2008 Time to Read: BC Achievement Foundation Award for Early Literacy from foundation board member, the Honourable Iain Black at Panorama Heights Elementary in Coquitlam, BC.
Richardson and Nugent received the award for The Aunts Come Marching, a sing-a-long story about a marching procession of musical aunts who drop in on a family for an unexpected visit. The Time to Read Award is a national children's book award for an author and illustrator of a book suitable for kindergarten students. The winning book is distributed to all BC kindergarten students and the author and illustrator each receive $7,500. For 2009, the deadline for submissions by Canadian publishers is March 15, 2009.
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