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PAGE B14 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9. 1987 A Toronto poet and a local novelist will judge the 1988 Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Award Contest, originally a Centennial project of the Kitchener Public Library. and named in honor of its former chief librarian. Poet Janis Rapoport will judge the poetry entries and novelist Tom York will select the prose The contest is sponsored by participating public libraries within Ontario Library Service â€" Sauâ€" geen. It is open to residents in Bruce, Dufferin, Grey, Huron, Perth and Wellington counties, and the Region of Waterloo. It‘s that time of year each one of us searches for that special gift for that special person. Well search no more. The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Fireside Book of Canadian Christmas is the ideal gift that young or old adults will enjoy. There are accounts of the first Canadian settlers, who managed to celebrate Christmas even in the wilds of backwoods Canada. Other stomes of Christmas evolve around childhood memories, both affectionate and humorous "A Bright Vision" by Catherine Parr Traill, is by one of Canada‘s first authors. She writes of her trip home in an open sleigh on Chnistmas eve around the early 1800‘s. She sees the aurora borealis and contemplates its source and meaning "An Orange From Portugal" by Hugh Mac Lennan is a story from 1915 of how an urchin boy in Halifax mysteriously receives a coveted orange for his only Christmas gift "How We Made Christmas" by the Famous Indian impostor Grey Ow! tells of how he and his Indian wife, Anahareo decorated their cabin and brought an evergreen tree indoors to decorate with food for their pet beavers McGinâ€" nis and McGinty. "A Very Merry Christmas" is Morley Calâ€" laghan‘s humorous account of a Church‘s frantic search for the missing Christ Child. Many are suspected of taking the figure from York joins in judging of Shoemaker contest World of Books the creche. Surprisingly it‘s returned on Christ mas day along with a logical explanation. author during the Depression. They need a washing machine. They get their first radio and listen to choirs on Christmas day. The first Christmas carol, "Jesus Ahatonhia (Jesus is Born)" by Father Jean de Brebeuf is translated from the Huron language. It‘s the first written account of Christmas celebrated among the Indians. This carol is sung in Churches yet today during the Christmas In "One Thousand Aves," Louis Hemon writes of the early French Canadian Chapdeâ€" laine family‘s Christmas Eve celebration. Maria believes that if she says 1,000 Aves, she will be granted one wish. Her wish is for the safety of trapper Francois, whom she hopes to marry in the Spring Authors among this anthology of 35 accounts of Christmas‘ past are Lucy Maud Montgomâ€" ery, Stephen Leacock and Robertson Davies. These and many other Canadian writers make this collection of Canadian memories from the 17th century to the present day, one to be The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Fireside Book of Canadian Christmas. Edited by Patrick Crean. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 219 pages. Rapoport was born and raised in Toronto, and was educated in Toronto and Switzerland. She has published several volumes of poetry, among them Landscape, Winter Flowers, and more recently, Imaginings, for which she won the New York Art Directors‘ Club Award of Merit. Ms. Rapoport is currently writerâ€"inâ€"residence at the St. Thomas Public Library. Born in Washington, D.C., York immigrated to Canada in 1962. His published novels include Snowman, The Musk Ox Passion, and Trapper. York is a member of The Writers‘ Union of Canada, and currently lectures at the University of Waterloo is about his family