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Award-Winning Titles

• 2008 Award-Winning Books - English Titles
• 2008 Award-Winning Books - French Titles

Award-Winning Books of the year 2008 - English Titles

Alberta Children's Book of The Year 2008
(Book Publishers Association of Alberta)
for the best children's or young adult book, including fiction, non-fiction and picture books
Free As The Wind: Saving The Horses Of Sable Island
Jamie Bastedo
Illustrations: Susan Tooke

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award 2008
(Canadian Library Association)
for best illustrations
Chester
Text and Illustrations: Mélanie Watt

Ann Connor Brimer Award 2008
(Nova Scotia Library Association)
for best book by an Atlantic author
Nightwalker: The Warlocks of Talverdin
K.V. Johansen

Arthur Ellis Awards 2008
(The Crime Writers of Canada)
for best juvenile crime novel
Eye of The Crow
Shane Peacock

Book Of The Year For Children Award 2008
(Canadian Library Association)
for best text
Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis

CBA Libris Awards
(Canadian Booksellers Association)
Children's Author of the Year
2008 Winner: Mélanie Watt

Children's Illustrator of the Year
2008 Winner: Mélanie Watt

The Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize 2008
(West Coast Book Prize Society)
for best picture book and illustrated non-fiction book
A Sea-Wishing Day
Robert Heidbreder
Illustrations : Kady Macdonald Denton

Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award 2008
(Ibby Canada-International Board on Books for Young People)
for best illustrations
The Owl and the Pussycat
Stéphane Jorisch

Geoffrey Bilson Award for
(Canadian Children's Book Centre)
Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis

Governor General's Literary Award 
Children's Literature 2008
(The Canada Council for the Arts)
for best text
The Landing
John Ibbitson
for best illustrations
The Owl and the Pussycat
Edward Lear
Illustrations: Stéphane Jorisch

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award 2008
(Atlantic Canadian Book Award)
for the favourite Canadian and
Atlantic Canadian books chosen by children
fiction
No Safe Harbour: The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn
Julie Lawson
non-fiction
Hiding Edith
Kathy Kacer

Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards 2008
Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award In Children's Literature
Out Of Line: Growing Up Soviet
Tina Grimberg

Information Book Award 2008
(The Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada)
for best non-fiction book
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
Rochelle Strauss
Illustrations by Rosemary Wood

Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award 2008
(Manitoba School Library Association)
for the favourite Canadian book of Manitoba's young readers
We All Fall Down
Eric Walters

Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award 2008
honouring excellence in the illustrated picture book format
Please, Louise!
Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrations: Marie-Louise Gay

National Chapter of Canada IODE
Violet Downey Book Award 2008
(Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire)
for best text
Eye of the Crow
Shane Peacock

National Chapter of Canada IODE
Violet Downey Book Award 2008
(Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire)
for best text
Eye of the Crow
Shane Peacock

Norma Fleck Award for Children's Non-Fiction 2008
(Canadian Children's Book Centre)
At Vimy Ridge: Canada's Greatest World War I Victory
Hugh Brewster

Award-Winning Books of the year 2008 - French Titles

Grand prix du livre de la Montérégie 2008
Children's literature category
Best book chosen by the public
Pas de chance, c'est dimanche !
Text and illustrations: Danielle Simard

Grand prix du livre de la Montérégie 2008
Best book chosen by a jury
La Mandragore
Jacques Lazure

Prix Alvine-Bélisle 2008
Awarded by the Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation for the best book of the year
Ma meilleure amie...
Gilles Tibo
Illustrations : Janice Nadeau

Prix Cécile-Gagnon 2008
Awarded by the Association des écrivains québécois pour la jeunesse for the first work by a writer for young readers
Volet Roman
Une ruse inversée
Frédéric Tremblay

Prix des lecteurs 15-18 ans Radio-Canada et Centre Fora 2008
Ainsi parle le Saigneur
Claude Forand

Prix de littérature jeunesse des bibliothèques de Montréal 2007
Ma vie ne sait pas nager
Élaine Turgeon

Prix de littérature jeunesse des bibliothèques de Montréal 2008
La petite rapporteuse de mots
Danielle Simard
Illustrations: Geneviève Côté

Prix illustrations jeunesse du Salon du livre de Trois-Rivières 2008
Illustrated book category
Les pays inventés
Text and illustrations: Philippe Béha

Prix illustrations jeunesse du Salon du livre de Trois-Rivières 2008
Illustrated short novel category
Dominic en prison
Alain M. Bergeron
Illustrations: Sampar

Prix illustrations jeunesse du Salon du livre de Trois-Rivières 2008
New illustrator category
Petits monstres - les mousses
Lucie Papineau
Illustrations: Julie Cossette

Governor General's Literary Award – Children's Literature 2008
For best text
Les trois lieues
Sylvie Desrosiers

Governor General's Literary Award – Children's Literature 2008
For best illustrations
Ma meilleure amie...
Gilles Tibo
Illustrations: Janice Nadeau

Prix littéraires du Salon international du livre de Québec 2008
Children's literature category
Les anges cassés
Lyne Vanier

Prix littéraire Le Droit 2008
Children's category
Awarded by the Association des auteures et auteurs de l'Ontario français et de l'Outaouais québécois for the best children's book
Là-haut sur la colline
Claude Bolduc

Prix TD de la littérature jeunesse canadienne
French book category
Un cadeau pour Sophie
Gilles Vigneault
Illustrations: Stéphane Jorisch