CLA Book of the Year for Children

Canadian Library Association

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.

1997 - Brian Doyle. Uncle Ronald (Groundwood)
Honour book for 1997:
- Joseph Romain. The Wagner Whacker (Vanwell)
1996 - Maxine Trottier. The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing (Stoddart)
Honour books for 1996:
- Linda Granfield (illus by Janet Wilson). In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae (Lester)
- Valerie Lupini. There Goes the Neighbourhood (Red Deer College)
- Tololwa Marti Mollel. Big Boy (Stoddart)
- Teresa Toten. The Only House (Red Deer College)
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. The White Archer: an Eskimo Legend
1967 - Christie Harris. Raven's Cry
1966 - James McNeill. The Double Knights: More Tales from Round the World
1966 - James Houston. Tikta'liktak: an Eskimo Legend
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

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