Miriam Körner, far right, won a Snow Willow award. (submitted photo/Miriam Körner)

By Derek Cornet

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La Ronge author wins Sask. Young Readers Choice Award

May 24, 2019 | 1:41 PM

Miriam Körner has won a Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Snow Willow Award for her debut novel Yellow Dog.

The SaskEnergy Willow Awards Gala was held Thursday at St. Angela School in Saskatoon. The Snow Willow Award was one of three presented at the event with categories having 10 nominations in each. Körner was also nominated in the Shining Willow category for When the Trees Crackle with Cold, but was unsuccessful. Overall, publishers enter hundreds of books into the competition.

“It’s a pretty big honour to have two books on that list, especially because it’s all over Canada,” she said. “The past year the kids were reading these books and, after a year, they choose a favorite book by voting on it.”

Yellow Dog is a story about a boy named Jeremy, who gets pressured into pulling a dog’s tail and later feels bad about it. He then tries to make amends, finds the dog and the owner, who happens to be an old man raised on a trapline. The old man was raised with sled dogs and he tells Jeremy stories about that time.

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Yellow Dog was one of two novels Miriam Körner had in the competition. (submitted photo/Miriam Körner)

“Inspired by that, the young boy starts collecting his own dogs from the reserve and starts making his own dog team,” Körner said.

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derek.cornet@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @saskjourno