Canadian Library Association Book of the Year
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Book of the Year for Children Award
2013 – The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen, Susin Nielsen
2012 – The Whole Truth, Kit Pearson
2011 – Half Brother, Kenneth Oppel
2010 – Watching Jimmy, Nancy Hartry
2009 – The Shepherd’s Granddaughter, Anne Laurel Carter
2008 – Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis
2007 – Johnny Kellock Died Today, Hadley Dyer
2006 – The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter
2005 – Last Chance Bay, Anne Laurel Carter
2004 – Boy O’Boy, Brian Doyle
2003 – Hana’s Suitcase, Karen Levine
2002 – Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, Jean Little
2001 – Wild Girl & Gran, Nan Gregory
2000 – Sunwing, Kenneth Oppel
1999 – Stephen Fair, Tim Wynne-Jones
1998 – Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel
1997 – Uncle Ronald, Brian Doyle
1996 – The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing, Maxine Trottier
1995 – Summer of the Mad Monk, Cora Taylor
1994 – Some of the Kinder Planets, Tim Wynne-Jones
1993 – Ticket to Curlew, Celia Barker Lottridge
1992 – Eating between the Lines, Kevin Major
1991 – Redwork, Michael Bedard
1990 – The Sky is Falling, Kit Pearson
1989 – Easy Avenue, Brian Doyle
1988 – A Handful of Time, Kit Pearson
1987 – Shadow in Hawthorn Bay, Janet Lunn
1986 – Julie, Cora Taylor
1985 – Mama’s Going to Buy You a Mockingbird, Jean Little
1984 – Sweetgrass, Jan Hudson
1983 – Up to Low, Brian Doyle
1982 – The Root Cellar – Janet Lunn
1981 – The Violin-Maker’s Gift, Donn Kushner
1980 – River Runners, James Houston
1979 – Hold Fast, Kevin Major
1978 – Garbage Delight, Dennis Lee
1977 – Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses, Christie Harris
1976 – Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Mordecai Richler
1975 – Alligator Pie, Dennis Lee
1974 – The Miraculous Hind, Elizabeth Cleaver
1973 – The Marrow of the World, Ruth Nichols
1972 – Mary of Mile 18, Ann Blades
1971 – Cartier Discovers the St. Lawrence, William Toye
1970 – Sally Go Round the Sun, Edith Fowke
1969 – And Tomorrow the Stars, Kay Hill
1968 – The White Archer, James Houston
1967 – The Raven’s Cry, Christie Harris
1966 – Tikta’ Liktak, James Houston / The Double Knights, James McNeill
1965 – Tales of Nanabozho, Dorothy Reid
1964 – The Whale People, Roderick Haig-Brown
1963 – The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burnford
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1961 – The St. Lawrence, William Toye
1960 – The Golden Phoenix, M. Barbeau & M. Hornyansky
1959 – The Dangerous Cove, John F. Hayes
1958 – Lost in the Barrens, Farley Mowat
1957 – Glooskap’s Country, Cyrus Macmillan
1956 – Train for Tiger Lily, Louise Riley
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1952 – The Sun Horse, Catherine A. Clark
1951
1950 – Franklin of the Arctic, Richard Lambert
1949 – Kristli’s Trees, Mabel Dunham
1948
1947 – Starbuck Valley Winter, Roderick Haig-Brown
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