- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
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The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award is an annual award for new American children's books, given in Vermont and named after Vermont author Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The winning book is chosen by the vote of Vermont schoolchildren.
The award was first given in 1957. It is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries. Each spring, a committee of eight adult judges carefully selects 30 books originally published in the previous year to comprise the shortlist for the award. Vermont schoolchildren who have read at least 5 books from the list then vote for their favorite titles the following spring. The winning author is invited to visit Vermont to speak with children about the experience of writing literature for young people.
List of winners
- 2009 Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
- 2008 Rules by Cynthia Lord
- 2007 Flush by Carl Hiassen
- 2006 The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn
- 2005 The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- 2004 Loser by Jerry Spinelli
- 2003 Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
- 2002 Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- 2001 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- 2000 Holes by Louis Sachar
- 1999 Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- 1998 Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
- 1997 Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
- 1996 Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn
- 1995 The Boggart by Susan Cooper
- 1994 Jennifer Murdley's Toad by Bruce Coville
- 1993 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- 1992 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- 1991 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- 1990 Where It Stops, Nobody Knows by Amy Ehrlich
- 1989 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- 1988 Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
- 1987 The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
- 1986 The War With Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
- 1985 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
- 1984 A Bundle of Sticks by Pat Rhoades Mauser
- 1983 Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
- 1982 The Hand-Me-Down Kid by Francine Pascal
- 1981 Bunnicula by James Howe
- 1980 Bones on Black Spruce Mountain by David Budbill
- 1979 Kid Power by Susan Pfeffer
- 1978 Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
- 1977 A Smart Kid Like You by Stella Pevsner
- 1976 The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill
- 1975 The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars
- 1974 Catch a Killer by George Woods
- 1973 Never Steal a Magic Cat by Donald E. Caufield
- 1972 Flight of the White Wolf by Melvin Ellis
- 1971 Go to the Room of the Eyes by B. K. Erwin
- 1970 Kavik the Wolf Dog by Walt Morey
- 1969 Two in the Wilderness by M. W. Thompson
- 1968 The Taste of Spruce Gum by Jacqueline Jackson
- 1967 The Summer I Was Lost by Phillip Viereck
- 1966 Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
- 1965 Rascal by Sterling North
- 1964 Bristle Face by Zachary Ball
- 1963 The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
- 1962 City under the Back Steps by Honore Lampman
- 1961 Captain Ghost by Thelma Bell
- 1960 Double or Nothing by Phoebe Erickson
- 1959 Comanche of the Seventh by Margaret Leighton
- 1958 Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
- 1957 Old Bones, the Wonder Horse by Mildred Pace
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