By Rachael Lesosky, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Valley Voice The BC and Yukon Book Prizes\u2019 2025 shortlists have been announced. Kootenay-based Cree artist Delre\u00e9 Dumont, and Scottish and Cree author Tonya Simpson, have been nominated for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children\u2019s Literature Prize. Dumont\u2019s art appears in Simpson\u2019s picture book, This Land Is a Lullaby, printed by Orca Book Publishers in 2024. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled that we have been nominated and look forward to the results in September,\u201d Dumont told the Valley Voice. \u201cWhether we win or not, just being nominated is a prize itself!\u201d This Land Is a Lullaby takes place on a stormy summer\u2019s night, while a mother calms her infant with images of their ancestral home in the prairies and plains \u2013 the hum of dragonflies, the drumming… <\/p>\n
By Rachael Lesosky, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Valley Voice The BC and Yukon Book Prizes\u2019 2025 shortlists have been announced. Kootenay-based Cree artist Delre\u00e9 Dumont, and Scottish and Cree author Tonya Simpson, have been nominated for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children\u2019s Literature Prize. Dumont\u2019s art appears in Simpson\u2019s picture book, This Land Is a Lullaby, printed by Orca Book Publishers in 2024. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled that we have been nominated and look forward to the results in September,\u201d Dumont told the Valley Voice. \u201cWhether we win or not, just being nominated is a prize itself!\u201d This Land Is a Lullaby takes place on a stormy summer\u2019s night, while a mother calms her infant with images of their ancestral home in the prairies and plains \u2013 the hum of dragonflies, the drumming... <\/p>\n