Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award
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Annual Canadian literary 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 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).
Winners
There were two awards in 1966 and no award six times from 1948 to 1962.[2] From 1967, the award-winning books were published during the preceding year; to 1965, most of the winning books were published during the second preceding year; the 1966 winners were published one each in 1964 and 1965.
Two books have won the CLA Young Adult Book Award as well as the Book of the Year for Children: Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn, in 1987, and Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel, in 2011.[2][5]
Thus Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986) by Janet Lunn won three major Canadian awards, the CLA awards for both children's and young-adult literature and the Governor General's Award in its last year as the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.[6]
British Carnegie Medal – spans children's and young-adult literature
Notes
1 2 The inaugural, 1947 award-winning book was Starbuck Valley Winter by Roderick Haig-Brown, illustrated by Charles De Feo. It had been published during 1943 in the U.S. (New York: William Morrow, OCLC2883591); 1944 in the U.K. (London: William Collins, OCLC9415906). A "Victory Edition" was published 1946 in Canada (Toronto: Collins, OCLC630077).
↑ Glooskap's Country (Oxford University Press, 1955 or 1956) was a posthumous reissue of stories collected by the folklorist Macmillan and published in Canadian Wonder Tales (1918) or Canadian Fairy Tales (1922). OCLC756287533. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
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