Established 1987. Presented annually for the best children's book published the previous year by a writer who has lived in British Columbia for three of the previous five years, published anywhere in the world.
1998 - James Heneghan, Wish me Luck (Groundwood)
Other shortlisted titles for 1998:
Julie Lawson, Emma and the Silk Train, illustrated by Paul Mombourquette (Kids Can)
John Wilson, Across Frozen Seas (Beach Holme)
1997 - Sarah Ellis, Back of Beyond
Other shortlisted titles for 1997:
Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming
W.D. Valgardson, Sarah and the People of Sand River
1996 - Nan Gregory and Ron Lightburn, How Smudge Came (Red Deer College Press)
Other shortlisted titles for 1996:
Constance Horne and Lissa Calvert, Emily Carr's Woo (Oolichan)
Andrea Saplding, Finders Keepers (Beach Holme)
1995 - Lillian Boraks-Nemetz, The Old Brown Suitcase
1994 - Julie Lawson, White Jade Tiger
1993 - Shirley Sterling, My Name is Seepeetza
1992 - Alexandra Morton, Siwiti; A Whale's Story
1991 - Nancy Hundal, I Heard My Mother Call My Name
