At the 2000 BC Book Prizes Vivien Bowers of Nelson won the Sheila Egoff Children's Prize for WOW Canada! Exploring This Land From Coast to Coast to Coast (Owl Books), an account of one family's trip to discover Canada, complete with campfires, souvenirs, photos and facts. "I did drag my children around the country for this book and their overall impression was that it was too big!"; said Bowers, "and I should have written about Hawaii instead!";

[BCBW SUMMER 2000]