The Alcuin Society

Alcuin Society Book Design Awards17th Annual Awards for
Excellence in Book Design
in Canada

1998Catalogue (PDF)

Children | Limited Editions | Pictorial | Poetry
Prose Fiction | Prose Non-Fiction
Prose Non-Fiction Illustrated | Reference

Children's Books

1st Prize

Title

I Heard a Little Baa

Designer

Karen Powers

Author

Elizabeth MacLeod

Publisher

Kids Can Press

Illustrator

Louise Phillips

2nd Prize

Title

Dreams Are More Real Than Bathtubs

Designer

Marie-Louise Gay

Author

Susan Musgrave

Publisher

Orca Book Publishers

Illustrator

Marie-Louise Gay

3rd Prize

Title

The Fox's Kettle

Designer

Victor Bosson

Author

Laura Langston

Publisher

Orca Book Publishers

Illustrator

Victor Bosson

Hon. Mention

Title

On Tumbledown Hill

Designer

Dusan Petricic; Kunz & Associates (cover)

Author

Tim Wynne-Jones

Publisher

Red Deer College Press

Illustrator

Dusan Petricic

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Hon. Mention

Title

Fra du Giardini = Between Two Gardens = Entre Deux Jardins : Poesie = Poems = Poemes

Designer

Crispin Elsted, Barbarian Press

Author

Carlo Toselli

Publisher

Le Grazie

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1st Prize

Title

Made of Clay : Ceramics of British Columbia

Designer

Praxis

Author

Linda Doherty, compiler; Historical text by Carol Mayer

Publisher

Potter Guild of B.C.

2nd Prize

Title

Light on the Water : Early Photography of Coastal British Columbia

Designer

Val Speidel

Author

Keith McLaren

Publisher

Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press

3rd Prize

Title

Brian MacKay-Lyons : Selected Projects, 1986-1997

Designer

Brian MacKay-Lyons, Robert Meyer, Susan Fitzgerald, Marc Cormier
Design consultants and text: Bhandari & Co.

Author

Brian Cater, editor

Publisher

Tuns Press

Poetry^ back to top

1st Prize

Title

Handwriting

Designer

Sarmila Mohammed; Kong Njo (cover)

Author

Michael Ondaatje

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

2nd Prize

Title

Into the Peculiar Dark

Designer

Gordon Robertson

Author

Anne F. Walker

Publisher

The Mercury Press

3rd Prize

Title

Wild Mouse

Designer

Zab Design & Typography

Author

Derek McCormack and Chris Chambers

Publisher

Pedlar Press

Hon. Mention

Title

The Afterlife

Designer

Susan Decker

Author

Robert Boates

Publisher

Seraphim Editions

Prose Fiction^ back to top

1st Prize

Title

The Stone Angel

Designer

Sari Ginsberg

Author

Margaret Laurence

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

2nd Prize

Title

What the Crow Said

Designer

Alan Brownoff

Author

Robert Kroetsch

Publisher

The University of Alberta Press

Hon. Mention

Title

Concrete Forest : The New Fiction of Urban Canada

Designer

Sari Ginsberg

Author

Hal Niedzviecki, editor

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Prose Non-Fiction^ back to top

1st Prize

Title

Borderlands : How We Talk About Canada

Designer

George Vaitkunas

Author

W.H. New

Publisher

UBC Press

2nd Prize

Title

Into the Looking Glass Wood : Essays on Words and the World

Designer

Paul Hodgson (Sharon Forster Design); Spencer Francey Peters (cover)

Author

Alberto Manguel

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

3rd Prize

Title

She Would Be the First Sentence of My Next Novel

Designer

Gordon Robertson

Author

Nicole Brossard, translated by Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood

Publisher

The Mercury Press

Prose Non-Fiction Illustrated^ back to top

1st Prize (tie)

Title

Legends of Our Times : Native Cowboy Life

Designer

George Vaitkunas

Author

Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper

Publisher

UBC Press / Canadian Museum of Civilization / University of Washington Press

1st Prize (tie)

Title

Open City

Designer

Lewis Nicholson with Gilbert Li

Author

John Knechtel, editor

Publisher

House of Anansi Press

3rd Prize

Title

Electric Language : Understanding the Present

Designer

Eskind Waddell

Author

Eric McLuhan

Publisher

Stoddart

Reference^ back to top

1st Prize

Title

Toronto in Print : A Celebration of 200 Years of the Printing Press in Toronto, 1798-1998

Designer

Stan Bevington

Author

Sandra Alston and Patricia Fleming

Publisher

University of Toronto Library

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