Congratulations to Sylvia Olsen, author and VSG member, who won the $5,000 Bolen Books Children's Book Prize for Counting on Hope (Sono Nis Press). The subject of her novel is a teenage aboriginal girl in 1863 on Kuper Is.
Olsen said she loved inspiring young people with her novels.
"I get to be with teenagers and kids and get to see that inspiration," she said. "I'm never going to grow up and write adult novels."
