Governor General's Literary Award Winners Children's Literature

Awards List

2015

The Gospel Truth (Winner)
Caroline Pignat

Oct-2014
/ Historical

The Gospel Truth (Finalist)
Caroline Pignat

Oct-2014
/ Historical

Audrey (Cow) (Finalist)
Dan Bar-el

Nov-2014
/ Action Adventure

We Are All Made of Molecules (Finalist)
Susin Nielsen

May-2015
/ General Fiction

Are You Seeing Me? (Finalist)
Darren Groth

Aug-2015
/ General Fiction

Young Man with Camera (Finalist)
Emil Sher; David M. Wyman

Oct-2015
/ Literary

2014

When Everything Feels Like the Movies (Winner)
Raziel Reid

Apr-2015
/ General Fiction

Jeremy Stone (Finalist)
Lesley Choyce

Mar-2014
/ General Fiction

Skraelings: Clashes in the Old Arctic (Finalist)
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley; Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley

Apr-2014
/ General Fiction

2013

Becoming Holmes (Finalist)
Shane Peacock

Oct-2012
/ Historical

The White Bicycle (Finalist)
Beverley Brenna

Nov-2012
/ General Fiction

Counting Back from Nine (Finalist)
Valerie Sherrard

Dec-2012
/ Romance

Once Upon a Northern Night (Finalist)
Jean E. Pendziwol

Aug-2013
/ General Fiction

2012

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (Winner)
Susin Nielsen

Sep-2012
/ General Fiction

Seraphina (Finalist)
Rachel Hartman

Mar-2010
/ General Fiction

The Grave Robber's Apprentice (Finalist)
Allan Stratton

Mar-2012
/ Action Adventure

2011

A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk (Finalist)
Jan L. Coates

Feb-2011
/ Historical

Blink and Caution (Finalist)
Tim Wynne-Jones

Mar-2011
/ Suspense

No Ordinary Day (Finalist)
Deborah Ellis

Sep-2011
/ General Fiction

This Dark Endeavor (Finalist)
Kenneth Oppel

Sep-2011
/ Science Fiction / Fantasy

2010

Fishtailing (Winner)
Wendy Phillips

Sep-2010
/ General Fiction

Me, Myself and Ike (Finalist)
K.L. Denman

Oct-2009
/ General Fiction

Tyranny (Finalist)
Lesley Fairfield

Oct-2009
/ Graphic Novel

Free as a Bird (Finalist)
Gina McMurchy-Barber

Mar-2010
/ General Fiction

2009

Greener Grass (Winner)
Caroline Pignat

Mar-2009
/ Historical

Thousand Shades of Blue (Finalist)
Robin Stevenson

Oct-2008
/ General Fiction

Sister Wife (Finalist)
Shelley Hrdlitschka

Nov-2008
/ General Fiction

The Uninvited (Finalist)
Tim Wynne-Jones

May-2009
/ Suspense

Home Free (Finalist)
Sharon Jennings

Sep-2009
/ General Fiction

2008

The Landing (Winner)
John Ibbitson

Sep-2008
/ General Fiction

Child of Dandelions (Finalist)
Shenaaz Nanji

Mar-2008
/ General Fiction

Libertad (Finalist)
Alma Fullerton

Jun-2008
/ General Fiction

2007

Elijah of Buxton (Finalist)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Aug-2007
/ General Fiction

2006

Pirate's Passage (Winner)
William Gilkerson

May-2007
/ General Fiction

Ingrid and the Wolf (Finalist)
Andre Alexis

Oct-2005
/ General Fiction

Me and the Blondes (Finalist)
Teresa Toten

Apr-2006
/ General Fiction

Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen (Finalist)
Glen Huser

Mar-2008
/ General Fiction

2005

After (Finalist)
Francis Chalifour

Oct-2005
/ General Fiction

2004

Airborn (Winner)
Kenneth Oppel

May-2004
/ Fantasy

2003

Stitches (Winner)
Glen Huser

Nov-2004
/ General Fiction

Ann and Seamus (Finalist)
Kevin Major

Apr-2004
/ Historical

Award Categories

Children's Illustrated

Children's Illustration

Children's Literature

Fiction

Translation

Award Years