Childrens' Book Awards

Children's Book Award Winners (Since 1990)

1. The Governor Generals Literary Awards(Canada)
2. Red Cedar Awards (Canada)
3. Steller Book Award: The New Teen Readers' Choice Award of B.C. (Canada)
4. BC Book Prize (Canada)
5. Newbery Medal Books (United States)
6. Caldecott Medal Books (United States)
7. Carnegie Medal (UK)
8. Kate Greenaway Medal (UK)

The Governor General's Literary Awards (Canada)

Children's Literature - Text

2012 Winner:

• Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen. Susin Nielsen

2012 Finalists:

• Seraphina. Rachel Hartman
• Under the Moon. Deborah Kerbel
• The Umbrella. Judd Palmer
• The Grave Robber's Apprentice. Allan Stratton

Past Winners:

• 2011 From Then to Now: A Short History of the World. Christopher Moore
• 2010 Fishtailing. Wendy Phillips
• 2009 Greener Grass: The Famine Years. Caroline Pignat
• 2008 The Landing. John Ibbitson
• 2007 Gemini Summer. Iain Lawrence
• 2006 Pirate's Passage. William Gilkerson
• 2005 Crazy Man. Pamela Porter
• 2004 Airborn. Kenneth Oppel
• 2003 Stitches. Glen Huser
• 2002 True Confessions of a Heartless Girl. Martha Brooks
• 2001 Dust. Arthur Slade
• 2000 Looking for X. Deborah Ellis
• 1999 A Screaming Kind of Day. Rashna Gilmore
• 1998 The Hollow Tree. Janet Lunn
• 1997 Awake and Dreaming. Kit Pearson
• 1996 Ghost Train. Paul Yee
• 1995 The Maestro. Tim Wynne-Jones
• 1994 Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me. Julie Johnston
• 1993 Some of the Kinder Planets. Tim Wynne-Jones
• 1992 Hero of Lesser Causes. Julie Johnston
• 1991 Pick-Up Sticks. Sarah Ellis
• 1990 Redwork. Michael Bedard

Children's Literature - Illustration

2012 Winner:

• Virginia Wolf. Isabelle Arsenault (illus), Kyo Maclear (text)

2012 Finalists:

• Big City Bees. Renné Benoit (illus), Maggie de Vries (text)
• House Held Up by Trees. John Klassen (illus),Ted Kooser (text)
• Picture a Tree. Barbara Reid
• In the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up. David Parkins (illus), Monica Kulling (text)

Past Winners:

• 2011 Ten Birds. Jon Klassen (illus) Cybele Young (text)
• 2010 Cat's Night Out. Jon Klassen (illus) Caroline Stutson (text)
• 2009 Bella’s Tree. Jirina Marton (illus) Janet Russell (text)
• 2008 The Owl and the Pussycat. Stéphane Jorisch (illus) Edward Lear (text)
• 2007 The Boy from the Sun. Duncan Weller
• 2006 Ancient Thunder. Leo Yerxa
• 2005 Imagine a Day. Ron Gonsalves
• 2004 Jabberwocky. Stephane Jorisch
• 2003 The Song Within My Heart. Allen Sapp
• 2002 Alphabeasts. Wallace Edwards
• 2001 An Island in the Soup. Mireille Levert
• 2000 Yuck, A Love Story. Marie-Louise Gay
• 1999 The Great Poochini. Gary Clement
• 1998 A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes. Kady Macdonald Denton
• 1997 The Party. Barbara Reid
• 1996 Rooster's Gift. Eric Beddows
• 1995 The Last Quest of Gilgamesh. Ludmila Zeman
• 1994 Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story
• 1993 Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming. Mireille Levert
• 1992 Waiting for the Whales. Ron Lightburn
• 1991 Doctor Kiss Says Yess. Joanne Fitzgerald
• 1990 Orphan Boy. Paul Morin

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Red Cedar Awards

Fiction

2011/2012 Nominees:

• Ice Storm. Penny Draper
• Racing Home. Adele Dueck
• That Boy Red. Rachna Gilmore
• Saving Arm Pit. Natalie Hyde
• Dear Canada: To Stand On My Own. Barb Haworth-Attard
• Count Me In. Sara Leach
• Dear Canada: Exiles From the War. Jean Little
• The Listening Tree. Celia Barker Lottridge
• Dragon Seer's Gift. Janet McNaughton.
• Amos Daragon #1: Mask Wearer. Bryan Perro
• Nutz!. Virginia Schwartz
• Catboy. Eric Walters

Past Winners:

• 2010/2011Libertad. Alma Fullerton
• 2009/2010 Dear Jo: The Story of Losing Leah ... and Searching for Hope. Christina Kilbourne
• 2008/2009 The Devil, the Banshee and Me. L.M. Falcone
• 2007/2008 Crazy Man. Pamela Porter
• 2006/2007 Airborn. Kenneth Oppel
• 2005/2006 Mud City. Deborah Ellis
• 2004/2005 Parvana's Journey. Deborah Ellis
• 2003/2004 If I Just Had Two Wings. Virginia Frances Schwartz
• 2002/2003 The Breadwinner. Deborah Ellis
• 2001/2002 Sunwing. Kenneth Oppel
• 2000/2001 Janey's Girl. Gayle Friesen
• 1999/2000 Silverwing. Kenneth Oppel
• 1998/1999 Awake and Dreaming. Kit Pearson
• 1997/1998 Amy's Promise. Bernice Thurman Hunter

Non-Fiction

2011/2012 Nominees:

• Harness Horses, Bucking Broncos & Pit Ponies. Shelley Jackson
• Explorers Who Made It Or Died Trying. Frieda Wishinsky
• Spy, Spy Again: True Tales of Failed Espionage. Tina Holdcroft
• Off To Class: Students and Schools Around the World. Susan Hughes
• White Ballets. Rajka Kupesic
• Sea Wolves: Living Wild in the Great Bear Rainforest. Ian McAllister
• Emily Included. Kathleen Mcdonnell
• Hockey Trailblazers. Nicole Mortillard
• Totally Human. Cynthia Pratt Nicolson
• Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue From War. Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
• Highway Of Heroes. Kathy Stinson
• Our Earth: How Kids Are Saving the Planet. Janet Wilson
• Shannen and the Dream For a School. Janet Wilson
• Mathemagic! Number Tricks. Lynda Colgan

Past Winners:

• 2010/2011Everything But the Kitchen Sink. Frieda Wishinsky & Elizabeth MacLeod(text) Travis King(illus)
• 2009/2010 Sweet!: the Delicious Story of Candy. Ann Love & Jane Drake(text) Claudia Davila(illus)
• 2008/2009 Why do Dogs have Wet Noses. Stanley Coren
• 2007/2008 Transformed: How Everyday Things are Made. Bill Slavin
• 2006/2007 Aha!. Trudee Romanek
• 2005/2006 Survivors! True Death-Defying Escapes. Larry Verstraete
• 2004/2005 Hana's Suitcase. Karen Levine
• 2003/2004 Ha! Ha! Ha! 1000+ Jokes, Riddles, Facts and More. Lyn Thomas(text) Dianne Eastman(illus)
• 2002/2003 Adventures in the Middle Ages. Linda Bailey(text) Bill Slavin(illus)
• 2001/2002 Wow, Canada. Vivien Bowers
• 2000/2001 Funny You Should Ask. Marg Meikle
• 1999/2000 The Great Race. David Bouchard(text) Zhong-Yang Huang(illus)
• 1998/1999 Anastasia's Album. Hugh Brewster
• 1997/1998 In Flanders Field. Linda Granfield and Janet Wilson

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Stellar Book Award: The New Teen Readers' Choice Award of B.C.

2011/2012 Winner:

• The Gryphon Project. Carrie Mac

2011/2012 Nominees:

• The Summoning. Kelley Armstrong
• Starclimber. Kenneth Oppel
• The Apprentice’s Masterpiece. Melanie Little
• The Lit Report. Sarah H. Harvey
• Word Nerd. Susin Nielsen
• Gotcha!. Shelley Hrdlitschka
• Chanda’s Wars. Allan Stratton
• Tales from Cooks Cove: One For Sorrow. Mary C Sheppard
• Getting the Girl. Susan Juby
• Alexandria of Africa. Eric Walters
• My Mother is a French Fry and Further Proof of my Fuzzed Up Life. Colleen Sydor
• Gravity Journal. Sidonie Sobalt
• Lockdown by Diane Tullson

Past Winners:

• 2010/2011 The Summoning. Kelley Armstrong
• 2009/2010 Choices. Deborah Lynn Jacobs
• 2008/2009 Droughtlanders. Carrie Mac
• 2007/2008 Red Sea. Diane Tullson
• 2006/2007 The Beckoners. Carrie Mac
• 2005/2006 Theories of Relativity. Bargara Haworth-Attard

BC Book Prizes

Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize

2013 Winner:

• Middle of Nowhere. Caroline Adderson

2013 Finalists:

• Mimi Power and the I-Don't-Know-What. Victoria Miles
• Prisoner of Snowflake Falls. John Lekich
• The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen. Susin Nielsen
• Seraphina. Rachel Hartman

Past Winners:

• 2012 Blood Red Road. Moira Young
• 2011Hunger Journeys. Maggie De Vries
• 2010The Gryphon Project. Carrie Mac
• 2009 My One Hundred Adventures. Polly Horvath
• 2008 The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane. Polly Horvath
• 2007 Odd Man Out. Sarah Ellis
• 2006 Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach. Barbara Nickel
• 2005 Miss Smithers. Susan Juby
• 2004 Skud. Dennis Foon
• 2003 Flood. James Heneghan
• 2002 Everything on a Waffle. Polly Horvath
• 2001 The Grave. James Heneghan
• 2000 WOW Canada! Exploring the Land from Coast to Coast to Coast. Vivien Bowers
• 1999 Driftwood Cove. Sandra Lightburn and Ron Lightburn
• 1998 Wish Me Luck. James Heneghan
• 1997 The Back of Beyond. Sarah Ellis
• 1996 How Smudge Came. Nan Gregory and Ron Lightburn
• 1995 Old Brown Suitcase. Lilian Boraks-Nemetz
• 1994 White Jade Tiger. Julie Lawson
• 1993 My Name is Seepeetze. Shirley Sterling
• 1992 Siwiti: A Whale Story. Alexandra Morton
• 1991 I Heard My Mother Call My Name. Nancy Hundal
• 1990 Tales from Gold Mountain. Paul Yee

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize

2013 Winner:

• Maggie's Chopsticks. Alan Woo

2013 Finalists:

• Gift Days. Kari-Lynn Winter.
• Hey Canada!. Vivien Bowers
• Rainbow Shoes. Tiffany Stone
• What's Up Bear?: A Book About Opposites. Frieda Wishinsky and Sean L. Moore

Past Winners:

• 2012 When I Was Small. Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad
• 2011Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet. Julie Flett
• 2010 Maggie Can’t Wait. Frieda Wishinsky(text) Dean Griffiths(illus)
• 2009 The King Has Goat Ears. Katarina Jovanovic(text) Philippe Beha(illus)
• 2008 A Sea-Wishing Day. Robert Heidbreder(text) Kady MacDonald Denton(illus)
• 2007 Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story. Maggie De Vries(text) Renné Benoit(illus)
• 2006 The Blue Jean Book: The Story Behind the Seams. Tanya Lloyd Kyi
• 2005 Goodbye to Griffith Street. Marilynn Reynolds and Renne Beniot
• 2004 Stanley's Party. Linda Bailey and Bill Slavin
• 2003 Salmon Creek. Annette LeBox and Karen Reczuch

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Newbery Medal Books(United States)

2013 Medal Winner:

• One and Only Ivan. Katherine Applegate

Past Winners:

• 2012 Dead End in Norvelt. Jack Gantos
• 2011 Moon Over Manifest. Claire Vanderpool
• 2010 When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead
• 2009 The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman
• 2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village. Laura Amy Schiltz
• 2007 The Higher Power of Lucky. Susan Patron
• 2006 Criss Cross. Lynne Rae Perkins
• 2005 Kira-Kira. Cynthia Kadohata
• 2004 The Tale of Despereaux. Kate DiCamillo
• 2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lean. Avi
• 2002 A Single Shard. Linda Sue Park
• 2001 A Year Down Yonder. Richard Peck
• 2000 Bud, Not Buddy. Christopher Paul Curtis
• 1999 Holes. Louis Sachar
• 1998 Out of the Dust. Karen Hesse
• 1997 The View from Saturday. E. L. Konigsburg
• 1996 The Midwife's Apprentice. Karen Cushman
• 1995 Walk Two Moons. Sharon Creech
• 1994 The Giver. Lois Lowry
• 1993 Missing May. Cynthia Rylant
• 1992 Shiloh. Phillis Reynolds Naylor
• 1991 Maniac Magee. Jerry Spinelli
• 1992 Number the Stars. Lois Lowry

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Caldecott Medal Books(United States)

2013 Medal Winner:

• This Is Not My Hat. Jon Klassen

2013 Honor Books:

• Creepy Carrots. Aaron Reynolds
• Extra Yarn. Mac Barnett
• Green. Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• One Cool Friend. Toni Buzzeo
• Sleep Like A Tiger. Mary Logue

Past Winners:

• 2012 A Ball For Daisy. Chris Raschka
• 2011 A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Philip C. Stead
• 2010 The Lion & the Mouse. Jerry Pinkney
• 2009 The House in the Night. Beth Krommes(illus) Susan Marie Swanson(text)
• 2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Brian Selznick
• 2007 Flotsam. David Wiesner
• 2006 The Hello Goodbye Window. Norton Juster
• 2005 Kitten's First Full Moon. Kevin Henkes
• 2004 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. Mordicai Gerstein
• 2003 My Friend Rabit. Eric Rohmann
• 2002 The Three Pigs. David Wiesner
• 2001 So You Want to be President? David Small(illus) Judith St. George(text)
• 2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat. Simms Taback
• 1999 Snowflake Bentley. Mary Azarian(illus) Jacqueline Briggs Martin(text)
• 1998 Rapunzel. Paul O. Zelinsky
• 1997 Golem. David Wisniewski
• 1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria. Peggy Rathman
• 1995 Smoky Night. David Diaz(illus) Eve Bunting(text)
• 1994 Grandfather's Journey. Allen Say
• 1993 Mirette on the High Wire. Emily Arnold McCully
• 1992 Tuesday. David Wiesner
• 1991 Black and White. David Macaulay
• 1990 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China. Ed Young

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Carnegie Medal(UK)

2011 (awarded in 2012) Winner:

• A Monster Calls. Patrick Ness

2011 (awarded in 2012) Nominees:

• My Name Is Mina. David Almond
• Small Change For Stuart. Lissa Evans
• Midnight Zoo. Sonya Hartnett
• Everybody Jam. Ali Lewis
• Trash. Andy Mulligan
• My Sister Lives On The Mantlepiece. Annabel Pitcher
• Between Shades Of Gray. Ruta Sepetys

Past Winners:

• 2010 Monsters Of Men. Patrick Ness
• 2009 The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman
• 2008 Bog Child. Siobhan Dowd
• 2007 Here Lies Arthur. Philip Reeve
• 2006 Just in Case. Meg Rosoff
• 2005 Tamar. Mal Peet
• 2004 Millions. Frank Cottrell Boyce
• 2003 A Gathering Light. Jennifer Donnelly
• 2002 Ruby Holler. Sharon Creech
• 2001 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. Terry Pratchett
• 2000 The Other Side of Truth. Beverley Naidoo
• 1999 Postcards From No Man's Land. Aidan Chambers
• 1998 Skellig. David Almond
• 1997 River Boy. Tim Bowler
• 1996 Junk. Melvin Burgess
• 1995 The Golden Compass. Philip Pullman
• 1994 Whispers in the Graveyard. Theresa Breslin
• 1993 Stone Cold. Robert Swindells
• 1992 Flour Babies. Anne Fine
• 1991 Dear Nobody. Berlie Doherty
• 1990 Wolf. Gillian Cross

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Kate Greenaway Medal(UK)

2011 (awarded in 2012) Winner:

• A Monster Calls. Patrick Ness

2011 (awarded in 2012) Nominees:

• Farther. Grahame Baker-Smith
• Wolf Won't Bite. Emily Gravett
• Puffin Peter. Petr Horáček
• Solomon Crocodile . Catherine Rayner
• Slog's Dad. Dave McKean (illus) David Almond (text)
• The Gift. Carol Anne Duffy (text), Rob Ryan (ill)
• There Are No Cats In This Book. Viviane Schwarz
• Can We Save The Tiger? Martin Jenkins (text), Vicky White (ill)

Past Winners:

• 2010 Farther. Grahame Baker-Smith
• 2009 Harry and Hopper. Freya Blackwood.
• 2008 Harris Finds his Feet. Catherine Rayner
• 2007 Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears. Emily Gravett
• 2006 The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon. Jonathan Cape(illus) Mini Grey(text)
• 2005 Wolves. Emily Gravett
• 2004 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver. Chris Riddell(illus) Martin Jenkins(text)
• 2003 Ella's Big Chance. Shirley Hughes
• 2002 Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child. Bob Graham
• 2001 Pirate Diary. Chris Riddell(illus) Richard Platt(text)
• 2000 I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato. Lauren Child
• 1999 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Helen Oxenbury
• 1998 Pumpkin Soup. Helen Cooper
• 1997 When Jessie Came Across the Sea. P. J. Lynch
• 1996 The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed. Helen Cooper
• 1995 The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey. P. J. Lynch
• 1994 Way Home. Gregory Rogers
• 1993 Black Ships Before Troy. Alan Lee(illus) Rosemary Sutcliff(text)
• 1992 Zoo. Anthony Browne
• 1991 The Jolly Christmas Postman. Janet Ahlberg
• 1991 The Whale's Song. Gary Blythe

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