Huge congratulations to our nominated authors! They are:
Fiction Category:
Bat by Ran Flygenring
In the pitch-black midwinter, Nat, Kokos, and Dad are getting ready for a sunny holiday abroad. They plan to visit a water park, join a sandcastle competition, and stuff themselves with ice cream. But when they spot a wild, disoriented bat flitting through the dusk, fear spreads across the city and their plans scatter to the wind. Unafraid of the dark, Nat makes a fateful decision that turns their world upside down. Bat is a rather funny, somewhat frightening, and slightly philosophical story about what lurks in the dark; the unknown, the unsettling, and the uncontrollable.
The Silver Line by Brynhildur Thorarinsdottir
Three women, one name, and a century of lives defined by the paths they were forced to take.
In 1887, a sudden illness severs Sigga from her family and her future in America. In 1957, Dídí grapples with the fallout of her mother’s scandalous disappearance to the States. Today, Sirrýlei, a Chinese-Icelandic teen, discovers that her identity is built on a series of historical ‘u-turns’ and a silver brooch that has survived them all.
Turf, stone, and Goldenroot by Sigrun Eldjarn
Una and Ormur are visiting their grandparents when they come across an old photograph of an Icelandic turf house. Grandpa tells them all about these traditional dwellings, and before long they decide that the summerhouse Grandma and Grandpa are planning to build should be a turf house. But how do you build a turf house? A real turf house?
Illustrations Category:
I Live in Giantland by Birna Danielsdottir
Do you sometimes feel like nothing fits you? That everything is either too big, too far away, or way too high up? Then maybe you live in GIANTLAND!
