Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards

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The Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards, established in 1976 as the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Awards, is a Canadian literary award for children's books. From 1976 until 1993, a single award was presented annually. Beginning in 1994, two awards were presented: one for children's picture book (C) and one for young adult and middle-grade novel (YA/MG). In 2008, the prize increased from CA$5,000 to CA$6,000.[1]

Awarded forChildren's literature
CountryCanada
Presented byOntario Arts Foundation and Ontario Arts Council
RewardCA$6,000
Quick facts & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards, Awarded for ...
Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards
Awarded forChildren's literature
CountryCanada
Presented byOntario Arts Foundation and Ontario Arts Council
RewardCA$6,000
First award1976
Most winsKenneth Oppel
Websitehttps://oafdn.ca/programs/awards/ruth-sylvia-schwartz-childrens-book-awards/
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The award was established by Sylvia Schwartz in honour of her sister, Ruth, a Toronto bookseller. The award was renamed in 2004 to honour both Ruth and Sylvia.[2] Recipients are nominated by a committee consisting of a bookseller, a librarian and a children's book reviewer, with winners selected among the nominees by juries of young readers from an Ontario public school.[3] The Ontario Arts Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council facilitate award administration.[3]

Recipients

1976-1999

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Award winners[4] and finalists
Year Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
1976 N/A Mordecai Richler Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang McClelland & Stewart Winner [5]
1977 N/A Robert Thomas Allen The Violin McGraw-Hill Ryerson Winner
1978 N/A Dennis Lee, illus. by Frank Newfield Garbage Delight MacMillan Winner
1979 N/A Kevin Major Hold Fast Stoddart Winner
1980 N/A Barbara Smucker Days of Terror Penguin Books Canada Winner
1981 N/A Suzanne Martel The King's Daughter Groundwood Books Winner
1982 N/A Claire Mackay, illus. by Marsha Hewitt One Proud Summer Women's Press Winner
1983 N/A Jan Truss Jasmin Groundwood Books Winner
1984 N/A Tim Wynne-Jones, illus. by Ken Nutt Zoom at Sea Groundwood Books Winner
1985 N/A Jean Little Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird Penguin Books Canada Winner
1986 N/A Robert Munsch, illus. by Michael Martchenko Thomas' Snowsuit Annick Press Winner
1987 N/A Barbara Reid Have You Seen Birds? Scholastic Canada . Winner
1988 N/A Cora Taylor The Doll Western Producer Winner
1989 N/A Janet Lunn, illus. by Kim LaFave Amos's Sweater Groundwood Books Winner
1990 N/A Diana Wieler Bad Boy Groundwood Books Winner
1991 N/A William Bell Forbidden City Doubleday Winner [6]
1992 N/A Paul Yee, illus. by Harvey Chan Roses Sing on New Snow Groundwood Books Winner
1993 N/A Phoebe Gilman Something from Nothing Doubleday Winner
1994 C Michael Kusugak, illus. by Vladyana Kyrkorka Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails Annick Press Winner
YA/MG O. R. Mellin The Hunter's Moon HarperCollins Canada Winner
1995 C Barbara Greenwood, illus. by Heather Collins A Pioneer Story Kids Can Press . Winner
YA/MG Julie Johnston Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me Lester Publishing Winner
1996 C Geoff Butler The Killick: A Newfoundland Story Tundra Books Winner
YA/MG Welwyn Wilton Katz Out of the Dark Groundwood Books Winner
1997 C Paul Yee, illus. by Harvey Chan Ghost Train Groundwood Books Winner
YA/MG Kit Pearson Awake and Dreaming Penguin Books Canada Winner
1998 C Jo Ellen Bogart, illus. by Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson Jeremiah Learns to Read Scholastic Canada . Winner
YA/MG Martha Brooks Bone Dance Groundwood Books Winner
1999 C Celia Barker Lottridge, illus. by Harvey Chan Music for the Tsar of the Sea Groundwood Books Winner
YA/MG Eric Walters War of the Eagles Orca Book Publishers Winner
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2000s

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Award winners[4] and finalists
Year Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2000 C Marie-Louise Gay Stella, Star of the Sea Groundwood Books Winner
YA/MG Kenneth Oppel Sunwing HarperCollins Canada Winner
2001 C Stephanie Simpson McLellan, illus. by Sean Cassidy The Chicken Cat Fitzhenry & Whiteside . Winner
YA/MG Janet McNaughton The Secret Under My Skin HarperCollins Canada Winner
2002 C Paulette Bourgeois, illus. by Stéphane Jorisch Oma's Quilt Kids Can Press . Winner
YA/MG Mary C. Sheppard Seven for a Secret Groundwood Books Winner
2003 C Richard Thomson, illus. by Martin Springett The Night Walker Fitzhenry & Whiteside Winner
YA/MG Deborah Ellis Parvana's Journey Groundwood Books Winner
2004 C Barbara Reid The Subway Mouse North Winds Press / Scholastic Canada Winner
YA/MG Brian Doyle Boy O'Boy Groundwood Books Winner
2005 C Wallace Edwards Monkey Business Kids Can Press Winner
YA/MG Kenneth Oppel Airborn HarperCollins Canada Winner
2006 C Marie-Louise Gay Caramba Groundwood Books Winner
YA/MG Kenneth Oppel Skybreaker HarperCollins Canada Winner
2007 C Mélanie Watt Scaredy Squirrel Kids Can Press Winner
YA/MG Deborah Ellis I Am A Taxi Groundwood Books Winner
2008 C Duncan Weller The Boy from the Sun Sim 1 Read Books Winner [7]
Bill Richardson, illus. by Cynthia Nugent The Aunts Come Marching Finalist [1]
Jeremy Tankard Grumpy Bird Finalist [1]
Wallace Edwards The Painted Circus: P.T. Vermin Presents a Mesmerizing Menagerie of Trickery and Illusion Guaranteed to Beguile and Bamboozle the Beholder Finalist [1]
Mélanie Watt Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend Finalist [1]
YA/MG Kenneth Oppel Darkwing HarperCollins Canada Winner [7]
Jean Little Dancing Through the Snow Finalist [1]
Christopher Paul Curtis Elijah of Buxton Finalist [1]
Kit Pearson A Perfect Gentle Knight Finalist [1]
Tim Wynne-Jones Rex Zero, King of Nothing Finalist [1]
2009 C Mélanie Watt Chester's Back! Kids Can Press Winner
YA/MG Alma Fullerton Libertad Fitzhenry & Whiteside Winner
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2010s

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Award winners[4] and finalists
Year Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2010 C Jane Barclay, illus. by Renné Benoit Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion Tundra Books Winner
YA/MG Shane Peacock Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Third Case Tundra Books Winner
2011 C Mélanie Watt Chester's Masterpiece Kids Can Press Winner
YA/MG Kenneth Oppel Half-Brother HarperColIins Canada Winner
2012 C Susan Vande Griek, illus. by Karen Reczuch Loon House of Anansi / Groundwood Books Winner [8][9]
YA/MG Kit Pearson The Whole Truth HarperColIins Canada Winner [8][9]
2013 C Aubrey Davis, illus. by Marie Lafrance A Hen for Izzy Pippik Kids Can Press Winner [10]
YA/MG Susin Nielsen The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen Tundra Books Winner [10]
2014 C Anne Villeneuve Loula is Leaving for Africa Kids Can Press Winner
K. Jane Watt, illus. by Richard Cole The Boy Who Paints Finalist [11]
Kathy Stinson, illus. by Dušan Petričić The Man with the Violin Finalist [11]
Jean E. Pendziwol, illus. by Isabelle Arsenault Once Upon a Northern Night Finalist [11]
Marie-Louise Gay Read Me a Story, Stella Finalist [11]
YA/MG Teresa Toten The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B Doubleday Canada Winner
Julie Johnston Little Red Lies Finalist [11]
David Carroll Ultra Finalist [11]
Fanny Britt, illus. by Isabelle Arsenault Jane, the Fox and Me Finalist [11]
Erin Bow Sorrow's Knot Finalist [11]
2015 C Kathy Kacer, illus. by Gillian Newland The Magician of Auschwitz Second Story Press Winner [12]
Margriet Ruurs and Katherine Gibson A Brush Full of Colour: The World of Ted Harrison Pajama Press Finalist [13]
Ashley Spires The Most Magnificent Thing Kids Can Press Finalist [13]
Cybèle Young Nancy Knows by Tundra Books Finalist [13]
Geneviève Côté Starring Me and You Kids Can Press Finalist [13]
YA/MG Kenneth Oppel The Boundless HarperColIins Canada Winner [12]
Dan Bar-el, illus. by Tatjana Mai-Wyss Audrey (Cow) Tundra Finalist [13]
William Bell Julian Doubleday Canada Finalist [6][13]
Polly Horvath Lord and Lady Bunny: Almost Royalty! Groundwood Books Finalist [13]
Deborah Ellis Moon at Nine Pajama Press Finalist [13]
2016 C Marianne Dubuc Mr. Postmouse's Rounds Kids Can Press Winner [14]
YA/MG Susin Nielsen We Are All Made of Molecules Tundra Books Winner [14]
2017 C The Fan Brothers The Night Gardener Simon & Schuster Winner
Chris Hadfield, illus. by The Fan Brothers The Darkest Dark Tundra Books Finalist [15]
Sara O'Leary, illus. by Qin Leng A Family is a Family is a Family Groundwood Books Finalist [15]
Kathy Stinson, illus. by Qin Leng Harry and Walter Annick Press Finalist [15]
Vikki VanSickle, illus. by Cale Atkinson If I Had a Gryphon Tundra Books Finalist [15]
YA/MG Wesley King OCDaniel Paula Wiseman Books Winner
Sara Cassidy A Boy Named Queen Groundwood Books Finalist [15]
Lisa Moore Flannery Groundwood Books Finalist [15]
Richard Scrimger Lucky Jonah HarperCollins Canada Finalist [15]
Frank Viva Sea Change Tundra Books Finalist [15]
2018 C Melanie Florence, illus. by Gabrielle Grimard Stolen Words Second St. Press Winner
YA/MG Heather Smith The Agony of Bun O'Keefe Penguin Teen Winner
2019 C Wab Kinew, illus. by Joe Morse Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes Tundra Books Winner
Shauntay Grant, illus. by Eva Campbell Africville Groundwood Books Finalist [16]
Marie-Louise Gay Mustafa Groundwood Books Finalist [16]
Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt, illus. by Lenny Lishchenko The Origin of Day and Night Inhabit Media Finalist [16]
Sheryl McFarlane, illus. by Leslie Redhead Island in the Salish Sea Orca Book Publishers Finalist [16]
YA/MG Colleen Nelson Sadia Dundurn Press Winner
Adam Garnet Jones Fire Song Annick Press Finalist [16]
Susin Nielsen No Fixed Address Tundra Finalist [16]
Monique Polak Planet Grief Orca Finalist [16]
Polly Horvath Very Rich Puffin Canada Finalist [16]
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2020s

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Award winners[4]
Year Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2020 C Nicole Testa, illus. by Annie Boulanger Lili Macaroni Pajama Press Winner
YA/MG Kelley Armstrong A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying Puffin Canada Winner
2021 C Heather M. O'Connor, illus. by Claudia Dávila Fast Friends Scholastic Canada . Winner
YA/MG Wesley King Sara and the Search for Normal Simon & Schuster / Paula Wiseman Books Winner
2022 C Brittany Luby, illus. by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know Groundwood Press Winner [17]
Bree Galbraith, illus. by Lynn Scurfield Hold That Thought! Owlkids Books Finalist [18]
Sara O'Leary, illus. by Qin Leng A Kid is a Kid is a Kid Groundwood Books Finalist [18]
David A. Robertson, illus. by Julie Flett On the Trapline Penguin Random House Finalist [18]
Paul Harbridge, illus. by Josée Bisaillon Out into the Big Wide Lake Tundra Books Finalist [18]
YA/MG Philippa Dowding Firefly DCB Winner [17]
Kevin Sands Children of the Fox Tundra Books Finalist [18]
Heather Fawcett The School Between Winter and Fairyland HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray Finalist [18]
Caroline Adderson Sunny Days Inside and Other Stories Groundwood Books Finalist [18]
Susin Nielsen Tremendous Things Penguin Random House Finalist [18]
2023 C Jen Lynn Bailey, illus. by Maggie Zeng This is the Boat That Ben Built Pajama Press Winner [19][20]
Leona Prince and Gabrielle Prince, illus. by Carla Joseph Be a Good Ancestor Orca Books Finalist [21]
Shazia Afzal, illus. by Aliya Ghare Journey of the Midnight Sun Orca Book Publishers Finalist [21]
Elise Gravel and Mykaell Blais, illus. by Elise Gravel Pink, Blue, and You!: Questions for Kids about Gender Stereotypes Anne Schwartz Books Finalist [21]
Ashley Spires The Most Magnificent Idea Kids Can Press Finalist [21]
YA/MG Nafiza Azad Road of the Lost Margaret K. McElderry Books / Simon & Schuster Winner [19][20]
Marthe Jocelyn Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse Tundra Books Finalist [21]
Teresa Toten Eight Days Scholastic Canada . Finalist [21]
Danielle Daniel Forever Birchwood HarperCollins Publishers Finalist [21]
Joel A. Sutherland Haunted Canada: The Third Terrifying Collection Scholastic Canada Finalist [21]
2024 C Melissa Mollen Dupuis, illus. by Elise Gravel Nutshimit: In the Woods Scholastic Canada . Winner [2][22]
YA/MG Kevin Sands The Raven's Revenge Simon & Schuster Winner [2][22]
2025 C Yewande Daniel-Ayoade, illus. by Ken Daley The Little Regent Owlkids Books Winner [2][23][24]
Leonarda Carranza, illus. by Erika Medina Fighting Words Annick Press Finalist [25][26]
Debbie Ridpath Ohi I Want to Read All the Books Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Finalist [25][26]
Tasha Hilderman, illus. by Risa Hugo Métis Like Me Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada Finalist [25][26]
Thao Lam One Giant Leap Owlkids Books Finalist [25][26]
YA/MG Cassandra Calin The New Girl Scholastic Canada . Winner [2][23][24]
S. K. Ali Fledgling: The Keeper's Records of Revolution Kokila/Penguin Random House Finalist [25][26]
Kern Carter Is There a Boy Like Me? Scholastic Canada Finalist [25][26]
Sarah Everett The Shape of Lost Things HarperCollins Finalist [25][26]
Jael Richardson (editor) Today I Am: 10 Stories of Belonging Scholastic Canada Finalist [25][26]
2026 C Jennifer Maruno, illus. by Miki Sato Chidori: A Story of One Thousand Birds Pajama Press Winner [27]
Monique Gray Smith, illus. by Nicole Neidhardt Dreaming Alongside Orca Book Publishers Finalist [25]
Susan Avingaq, illus. by Maren Vsetula Grandma Can Make Anything Inhabit Media Finalist [25]
Howie Shia Ra! Ta! Ma! Cue! Annick Press Finalist [25]
Tamara Levine, illus. by Ellie Arscott The Warmest Blanket in the World Second Story Press Finalist [25]
YA/MG Kate Blair We Bury Nothing DCB Young Readers / Cormorant Books Winner [27]
Kenneth Oppel Best of All Worlds Penguin Teen Canada Finalist [25]
Kim Spencer I Won't Feel This Way Forever Orca Book Publishers Finalist [25]
Cary Fagan Robot Island Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada Finalist [25]
Aviaq Johnston, illus. by Athena Gubbe The Haunted Blizzard Inhabit Media Finalist [25]
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