And the winner is…

Warmest congratulations to Martine Leavitt on winning the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Young People’s Literature (Text category) for her astounding novel, Calvin!

Here’s our jury citation:

In Martine Leavitt’s Calvin, a boy newly diagnosed with schizophrenia makes a pilgrimage across a frozen Lake Erie. Told in spare, beautiful prose, this transcendent exploration of reality and truth is funny, frightening and affirming. Calvin is an astonishing achievement.

I love and admire this novel so much. I hope you’ll read it, too.