Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award
The Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award is a literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian children's book. The book must be written in English and published in Canada during the preceding year (and nominated by the end of November). The writer must be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.[1]
The Book of the Year for Children Award is administered and presented by the Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques (CLA).[1] It was inaugurated in 1947 by an award to Roderick Haig-Brown for Starbuck Valley Winter[lower-alpha 1] and it has been presented to one book every year without exception from 1963.[2]
The companion CLA Young Adult Book Award has been presented annually from 1981.[3] As of 2015, two Book of the Year for Children criteria are "appeal to children up to and including age 12" and "creative (i.e., original) writing (i.e., fiction, poetry, narrative, non-fiction, retelling of traditional literature)".[1] Corresponding criteria for the YA Book Award are "[appeal] to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18" and "fiction (novel, collection of short stories, or graphic novel)".[3] Two books have won both the children's and young-adult awards (below).
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Winners
There were two awards in 1966 and no award six times from 1948 to 1962.[2] From 1967, the award-winning books were published during the preceding year; to 1965, most of the winning books were published during the second preceding year; the 1966 winners were published one each in 1964 and 1965.
- 2015 – Jonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener (Penguin Canada)
- 2014 – Allan Stratton, The Curse of the Dream Witch (Scholastic Canada)
- 2013 – Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (Tundra Books)
- 2012 – Kit Pearson, The Whole Truth (HarperCollins Canada)
- 2011 – Kenneth Oppel, Half Brother (HarperCollins)
- 2010 – Nancy Hartry, Watching Jimmy (Tundra)
- 2009 – Anne Laurel Carter, The Shepherd's Granddaughter (Groundwood Books)
- 2008 – Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic)
- 2007 – Hadley Dyer, Johnny Kellock Died Today (Harper Collins)
- 2006 – Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man (Groundwood)
- 2005 – Anne Laurel Carter, Last Chance Bay (Penguin)
- 2004 – Brian Doyle, Boy O'Boy (Groundwood/Douglas McIntyre)
- 2003 – Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase: a true story (Second Story Press)
- 2002 – Jean Little, Orphan at My Door: the home child diary of Victoria Cope (Scholastic Canada)
- 2001 – Nan Gregory, Wild Girl & Gran (Red Deer Press)
- 2000 – Kenneth Oppel, Sunwing (Harper Collins)
- 1999 – Tim Wynne-Jones, Stephen Fair (Groundwood/Douglas McIntyre)
- 1998 – Kenneth Oppel, Silverwing (Harper Collins)
- 1997 – Brian Doyle, Uncle Ronald (Groundwood)
- 1996 – Maxine Trottier, The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing (Stoddart)
- 1995 – Cora Taylor, Summer of the Mad Monk
- 1994 – Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets
- 1993 – Celia Barker Lottridge, Ticket to Curlew; also issued as Ticket to Canada
- 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 Archibald 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: a Hungarian legend
- 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: 300 songs, rhymes, and games of Canadian children
- 1969 – Kay Hill, And Tomorrow the Stars
- 1968 – James Archibald 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 (1964)
- 1966 – James Archibald Houston, Tikta'liktak: an Eskimo Legend (1965)
- 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 (also catalogued as "... Other French-Canadian Fairy Tales", OCLC 465832224)
- 1959 – John F. Hayes, The Dangerous Cove: a story of the early days in Newfoundland
- 1958 – Farley Mowat, Lost in the Barrens
- 1957 – Cyrus Macmillan, Glooskap's Country and Other Indian Tales (posthumous reissue)[lower-alpha 2]
- 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: a life of adventure
- 1949 – no award
- 1948 – Mabel Dunham, Kristli's Trees
- 1947 – Roderick Haig-Brown, Starbuck Valley Winter (1943)[lower-alpha 1]
Repeat winners
Brian Doyle won the Book of the Year for Children Award four times from 1983 to 2007. At least three others have won it three times: James Archibald Houston, Kenneth Oppel, and Kit Pearson.
Winners of multiple awards
Two books have won the CLA Young Adult Book Award as well as the Book of the Year for Children: Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn, in 1987, and Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel, in 2011.[2][4]
Nine books named CLA Book of the Year for Children have also won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or the preceding Canada Council Children's Literature Prize, or earlier Governor General's Award for juvenile fiction (in all, conferred for English-language books from 1949 to 1958 and 1975 to present). The writers and CLA award dates were Lambert 1950, Mowat 1958, Major 1979, Taylor 1986, Lunn 1987, (now under the present name) Bedard 1991, Wynne-Jones 1994, Porter 2006, Nielsen 2013.[5][6]
Thus Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986) by Janet Lunn won three major Canadian awards, the CLA awards for both children's and young-adult literature and the Governor General's Award in its last year as the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.[5]
See also
- CLA Young Adult Book Award
- Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
- ALA Newbery Medal
- British Carnegie Medal – spans children's and young-adult literature
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The inaugural, 1947 award-winning book was Starbuck Valley Winter by Roderick Haig-Brown, illustrated by Charles De Feo. It had been published during 1943 in the U.S. (New York: William Morrow, OCLC 2883591); 1944 in the U.K. (London: William Collins, OCLC 9415906). A "Victory Edition" was published 1946 in Canada (Toronto: Collins, OCLC 630077).
- ↑ Glooskap's Country (Oxford University Press, 1955 or 1956) was a posthumous reissue of stories collected by the folklorist Macmillan and published in Canadian Wonder Tales (1918) or Canadian Fairy Tales (1922). OCLC 756287533. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
References
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"Canada Council Children's Literature in French Awards".
online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-06. - ↑ "Governor General's Literary Awards" [winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
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