Book of the Year for Children Award

The Canadian Library Association (CLA) Book of the Year for Children Award was 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.

Award winners

 * 2010 - Nancy Hartry, Watching Jimmy (Tundra Books)
 * 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 Books)
 * 2005 – Anne Laurel Carter, Last Chance Bay (Penguin)
 * 2004 – Brian Doyle, Boy O'Boy (Groundwood/Douglas McIntyre)
 * 2003 – Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase (Second Story Press)
 * 2002 – Jean Little, Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope (Scholastic Canada)
 * 2001 – Nan Gregory, Wild Girls and 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
 * 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
 * 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 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
 * 1966 – James Archibald 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