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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