TD Canadian Children's Literature Award

The TD Canadian Children's Literature Award is an annual Canadian literary award, presented to the year's best work of children's literature. Sponsored by TD Bank Financial Group and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, the award carries a monetary prize of $30,000.^[1] On September 11th, 2018 it was announced that the monetary prize was increased from $30,000 to $50,000.^[2]^[3]

Two awards are presented annually, one each for English language and French language works. The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award.^[1]

Winners[]

English[]

2005 - , Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum
2006 - Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man
2007 - Sarah Ellis, Odd Man Out
2008 - Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton
2009 - and Kim LaFave, Shin-chi's Canoe
2010 - Arthur Slade, The Hunchback Assignments
2011 - Erin Bow, Plain Kate
2012 - , Stones for My Father
2013 - Polly Horvath, One Year in Coal Harbour
2014 - Kathy Stinson, The Man with the Violin
2015 - Jonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener
2016 - Melanie Florence & , Missing Nimâmâ
2017 - Jan Thornhill, The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
2018 - (writer) and Sydney Smith (illustrator), Town is by the Sea
2019 - , Ebb and Flow
2020 - Julie Flett, Birdsong, published by Greystone Books

French[]

2005 - and Anne Villeneuve, Le nul et la chipie
2006 - François Gravel and , David et le salon funéraire
2007 - , L'envers de la chanson : des enfants au travail 1850-1950
2008 - Gilles Vigneault and Stéphane Jorisch, Un cadeau pour Sophie
2009 - Anne Villeneuve, Chère Traudi
2010 - and , Le géranium
2011 - Linda Amyot, La fille d'en face
2012 - and , La saison des pluies
2013 - Michel Noël, À la recherche du bout du monde
2014 - Andrée Poulin, La plus grosse poutine du monde
2015 - Marianne Dubuc, L'autobus
2016 - , L'arbragan
2017 - Larry Tremblay and Guillaume Perreault, Même pas vrai
2018 - Marianne Dubuc, Le chemin de la montagne
2019 - , Anatole qui ne séchait jamais
2020 - Jacques Goldstyen, L’étoiles

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Sask., Man. writers win for children's books". cbc.ca, November 11, 2010.
^ "Wendy Orr, Cherie Demaline, and Monique Gray Smith among CCBC Award finalists". Quill and Quire. September 6, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
^ "Changes to the 2018 TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards - Canadian Children's Book Centre". Canadian Children's Book Centre. September 11, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2018.

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