Canada Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award

The Canada Library Association (CLA) Book of the Year for Children Award was established 1947. A medal presented annually to the author of the best children's book published in Canada. The author must be a citizen or resident of Canada. A change in the awards procedure in 1966 resulted in the presentation of two awards that year.

Award winners

*2008 - Christopher Paul Curtis, "Elijah of Buxton" (Scholastic)
*2007 - Hadley Dyer, "Johnny Kellock Died Today" (Harper Collins)
*2006 - Pamela Porter, "The Crazy Man" (Groundwood Books)
*2005 – Anne Laurel Carter, "Last Chance Bay" (Penguin)
*2004 – Brian Doyle, "Boy O'Boy" (Groundwood/Douglas McIntyre)
*2003 – Karen Levine, "Hana's Suitcase" (Second Story Press)
*2002 – Jean Little, "" (Scholastic Canada)
*2001 – Nan Gregory, "Wild Girls and Gran" (Red Deer Press)
*2000 – Kenneth Oppel, "Sunwing" (Harper Collins)
*1999 – Tim Wynne-Jones, "Stephen Fair" (Groundwood/Douglas McIntyre)
*1998 – Kenneth Oppel, "Silverwing" (Harper Collins)
*1997 – Brian Doyle, "Uncle Ronald" (Groundwood)
*1996 – Maxine Trottier, "The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing" (Stoddart)
*1995 – Cora Taylor, "Summer of the Mad Monk"
*1994 – Tim Wynne-Jones, "Some of the Kinder Planets"
*1993 – Celia Barker Lottridge, "Ticket to Curlew"
*1992 – Kevin Major, "Eating Between the Lines"
*1991 – Michael Bedard, "Redwork"
*1990 – Kit Pearson, "The Sky is Falling"
*1989 – Brian Doyle, "Easy Avenue"
*1988 – Kit Pearson, "A Handful of Time"
*1987 – Janet Lunn, "Shadow in Hawthorn Bay"
*1986 – Cora Taylor, "Julie"
*1985 – Jean Little, "Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird"
*1984 – Jan Hudson, "Sweetgrass"
*1983 – Brian Doyle, "Up to Low"
*1982 – Janet Lunn, "The Root Cellar"
*1981 – Donn Kushner, "The Violin-Maker's Gift"
*1980 – James Houston, "River Runners"
*1979 – Kevin Major, "Hold Fast"
*1978 – Dennis Lee, "Garbage Delight"
*1977 – Christie Harris, "Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses"
*1976 – Mordecai Richler, "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang"
*1975 – Dennis Lee, "Alligator Pie"
*1974 – Elizabeth Cleaver, "The Miraculous Hind"
*1973 – Ruth Nichols, "The Marrow of the World"
*1972 – Ann Blades, "Mary of Mile 18"
*1971 – William Toye, "Cartier Discovers the St. Lawrence"
*1970 – Edith Fowke, "Sally Go Round the Sun"
*1969 – Kay Hill, "And Tomorrow the Stars"
*1968 – James Houston, ""
*1967 – Christie Harris, "Raven's Cry"
*1966 – James McNeill, ""
*1966 – James Houston, ""
*1965 – Dorothy M. Reid, "Tales of Nanabozho"
*1964 – Roderick Haig-Brown, "The Whale People"
*1963 – Sheila Burnford, "The Incredible Journey"
*1962 – no award
*1961 – William Toye, "The St. Lawrence"
*1960 – Maruis Barbeau and Michael Hornyansky, "The Golden Phoenix and Other Fairy Tales from Quebec"
*1959 – John F. Hayes, "The Dangerous Cove"
*1958 – Farley Mowat, "Lost in the Barrens"
*1957 – Cyrus Macmillan, "Glooscap's Country and Other Indian Tales"
*1956 – Louise Riley, "Train for Tiger Lily"
*1955 – no award
*1954 – no award
*1953 – no award
*1952 – Catherine Anthony Clark, "The Sun Horse"
*1951 – no award
*1950 – Richard S. Lambert, "Franklin of the Arctic"
*1949 – no award
*1948 – Mabel Dunham, "Kristli's Trees"
*1947 – Roderick Haig-Brown, "Starbuck Valley Winter"

References

* [http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Book_of_the_Year_for_Children_Award&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=2501 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award - Past Winners]