Governor General's Award for English language children's literature
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This is a list of the Governor General's Award winner for children's literature. The current award was created in 1987. Previously from 1949 to 1958 an award for juvenile literature existed.
[edit] Juvenile fiction winners
- 1949 - R.S. Lambert, Franklin of the Arctic
- 1950 - Donald Dickie, The Great Adventure
- 1951 - John F. Hayes, A Land Divided
- 1952 - Marie McPhedran, Cargoes on the Great Lakes
- 1953 - John F. Hayes, Rebels Ride at Night
- 1954 - Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, The Nor'westers
- 1955 - Kerry Wood, The Map-Maker
- 1956 - Farley Mowat, Lost in the Barrens
- 1957 - Kerry Wood, The Great Chief
- 1958 - Edith L. Sharp, Nkwala
[edit] Children's literature winners
- 1987 - Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army
- 1988 - Welwyn Wilton Katz, The Third Magic
- 1989 - Diana Wieler, Bad Boy
- 1990 - Michael Bedard, Redwork
- 1991 - Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks
- 1992 - Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes
- 1993 - Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets
- 1994 - Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
- 1995 - Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro
- 1996 - Paul Yee, Ghost Train
- 1997 - Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming
- 1998 - Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree
- 1999 - Don Gillmor, The Christmas Orange
- 2000 - Deborah Ellis, Looking for X
- 2001 - Arthur Slade, Dust
- 2002 - Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
- 2003 - Glen Huser, Stitches
- 2004 - Kenneth Oppel, Airborn
- 2005 - Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man
- 2006 - William Gilkerson, Pirate's Passage
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