List of Canadian Children's Book Awards -

Here is a List of Canadian Children’s Book Awards which you might want to use as a reading list (or submit to these awards). These are the best of the best each year and you can find great suggestions for picture books, middle grade, fiction and non-fiction and young adult reading recommendations.

Canadian Children’s Book Awards

Forest of Reading
Blue Spruce Award™
Silver Birch Express Award
Silver Birch Fiction Award®
Red Maple Award™
White Pine Award™
Le prix Peuplier
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC)
Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
John Spray Mystery Award
Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction
TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
Sheila Barry Best Canadian Picture book of the Year Award
Rocky Mountain Book Award
Willow Awards
IODE Canada Violet Downey Award
Governor General’s Award for Young People’s Literature
Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award (Atlantic Canada)
Chocolate Lily Book Award (BC Children’s Choice)
Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice)
Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers’ Choice)
Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice)
Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize (BC)
Prix Aurora Awards
MYRCA Award

About Book Awards

Some are vetted by educational professionals (like librarians and teachers). Others are reader’s choice.

My first book was nominated for the Forest of Reading in the Silver Birch non-fiction category for Boredom Busters. It ended up winning the “honour book award” (2nd place).

Cross your fingers that the Grandmasaurus series will one day make a Canadian Children’s Book Award list.