Katy of Sky Road, by Dianne Case and Yvonne Hart, has been selected for the 2010 IBBY Honour List

Maskew Miller Longman is pleased to announce that Katy of Sky Road, by Dianne Case and Yvonne Hart, has been selected for the 2010 IBBY Honour List as having made a special contribution to recent South African literature for children and young people.

Katy of Sky Road is one of only two South African books on the IBBY Honour List and Maskew Miller Longman would like to congratulate the authors on this achievement.

Katy of Sky Road, was the English language category winner of the inaugural Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards. This honour also shows the quality of past winners of the MML Literature Award competition. Winners of the 2007 youth novel competition were announced at a gala awards evening at the Westcliff Hotel in Johannesburg on the 27th September 2007.

How the IBBY Honour List books are selected: Publishers are asked to submit a copy of each children's book published during the years in question. These books are then reviewed by:

• the children's book selectors of the Western Cape Library Service
• the librarians at EDULIS
• Genevieve Hart of UWC School of Librarianship and her students may also be asked to be involved input is received from libraries, schools, friends, email networking and from as many sources as possible. Where publishers fail to submit, the relevant material is sourced through other means, such as EDULIS or the Provincial Library Book selectors.
• The information is then collated and the Honour List books are finalised.