Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award

The Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award was a literary award given annually to recognize a Canadian children's book. The award was given to a book written in English by a citizen or permanent resident of Canada and published in Canada during the preceding year.[1]

The award was administered and presented by the Canadian Library Association (CLA)[1] until the organization disbanded in 2016. It was inaugurated in 1947 by an award to Roderick Haig-Brown for Starbuck Valley Winter[a] and it was be presented to one book every year without exception from 1963 to 2016.[2] As of 2016, two Book of the Year for Children criteria were "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]

The companion CLA Young Adult Book Award was presented annually from 1981.[3] 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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