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2005

Last Chance Bay  by Anne Laurel Carter

The CLA Book of the Year for Children

To learn more, please visit the CLA web site.

2004

 
Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle

2003

 
Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine

2002

Orphan At My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope by Jean Little

2001

Wild Girl & Gran by Nan Gregory

2000

 
Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel

1999

 
Stephen Fair by Tim Wynne-Jones

1998

 
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel

1997

 
Uncle Ronald by Brian Doyle

1996

 
Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing by Maxine Trottier

1995

Summer of the Mad Monk  by Cora Taylor

1994

 
Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-Jones

1993

 
Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge

1992

Eating Between the Lines by Kevin Major

1991

Redwork  by Michael Bedard

1990

The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson

1989

 
Easy Avenue by Brian Doyle

1988

 
Handful of Time by Kit Pearson

1987

Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn

1986

Julie by Cora Taylor

1985

Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird by Jean Little

1984

 
Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson

1983

 
Up to Low by Brian Doyle

1982

 
Root Cellar by Janet Lunn

1981

The Violin-Maker's  Gift by Donn Kushner

1980

River Runners by James Houston

1979

 
Hold Fast by Kevin Major

1978

Garbage Delight by Dennis Lee

1977

 
Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses by Christie Harris

1976

 
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler

1975

 
Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee

1974

The Miraculous Hind by Elizabeth Cleaver

1973

The Marrow of the World by Ruth Nichols

1972

 
Mary of Mile 18 by Ann Blades

1971

Cartier Discoveres the St. Lawrence  by William Toye

1970

Sally Go Round the Sun by Edith Fowke

1969

And Tomorrow the Stars by Kay Hill

1968

 
White Archer by James Houston

1967

 
Raven's Cry by Christie Harris

1966

Tikta' Liktak by James Houston

The Double Knights by James McNeil

1965

Tales of Nanabozho by Dorothy Reid

1964

 
Whale People by Robert Haig-Brown

1963

 
Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

1962

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1961

The St. Lawrence by William Toye

1960

The Golden Phoenix by M. Barbeau & M. Hornyansky

1959

The Dangerous Cove by John F. Hayes

1958

 
Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat

1957

 Glooskap's Country by Cyrus Macmillan

1956

Train for Tiger Lily by Louise Riley

1955

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1954

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1953

 NO AWARD PRESENTED

1952

The Sun Horse by Catherine A. Clark

1951

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1950

Franklin of the Arctic by Richard Lambert

1949

Kristli's Trees by Mabel Dunham

1948

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1947

Starbuck Valley Winter by Roderick Haig-Brown