Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction

The Bilson Award was established in 1988 in memory of Geoffrey Bilson, a respected historian and children's author. The annual prize of $1,000 has been made possible by the Canadian children's publishing industry, and is awarded to a Canadian author for an outstanding work of historical fiction for young people.

• 1997 - Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale
• 1996 - Marianne Brandis, Rebellion: A Story of Upper Canada
• 1995 - Joan Clark, The Dream Carvers
• 1994 - Kit Pearson, The Lights Go on Again
• 1993 - Celia Barker Lottridge, Ticket to Curlew
• 1992 - No award given.
• 1991 - Marianne Brandis, The Sign of the Scales
• 1990 - Kit Pearson, The Sky Is Falling
• 1989 - Martyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen Lands, and Dorothy Perkyns, Rachel's Revolution
• 1988 - Carol Matas, Lisa