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
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