Awards

Award Winning Books for Children and Adults

NBS Sponsored Awards |  Books for Children |  Books for Adults
All Awards listed Alphabetically

Book awards recognize excellence, expand opportunities for writers and promote publishing. NBS is proud of its long association with Canadian book award programs. Selected children's and adult awards are itemized with more recent winners and nominees listed and described. These are updated periodically to include the latest announced titles.

NBS Sponsored Awards

CLA Book Awards

• Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award
• CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
• CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award

CASL/NBS Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award

Young Readers Choice Awards

• Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
• Saskatchewan Young Readers Choice Awards

Award Winning Books for Children

Canadian Awards

CLA Book Awards

• Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award
• CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
• CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award

National Awards

• Arthur Ellis Award: Best Juvenile Crime Fiction
• Canadian Literature Roundtable: Canadian Information Book Award
• Elisabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award
• Mr. Christie Book Awards
• Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
• Governor General's Literary Awards
• IODE Violet Downey Book Award
• National Book Award—Young Peoples Literature
• Norma Fleck Award
• TD Children's Literature Award
• Vicky Metcalf

Regional Awards

• Ann Conner Brimer Award
• Epinette Bleu Award
• Hackmatack Awards
• IODE (Toronto) Children's Book Award
• Red Cedar Book Awards (British Columbia)
• Rocky Mountain Book Award: Alberta Children's Choice
• R.Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature
• Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award
• Saskatchewan Book Awards
• Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
• Stellar Awards

OLA Forest of Reading Awards

• Blue Spruce Award
• Evergreen Award
• Golden Oak Award
• Red Maple Award for Grades 7, 8 and 9
• Silver Birch Awards
• Silver Birch Express Awards
• White Pine Awards

Young Readers Choice Awards

• Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
• Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
• Saskatchewan Young Readers Choice Awards

International Awards

• Boston Globe-Horn Book
• Carnegie Award
• Coretta Scott King Award
• Costa Book Award
• Greenaway Award
• John Newbery Award
• Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
• Mildred L. Batchelder Award
• Randolph Caldecott Medal

Award Winning Books for Adults

Canadian Awards

Fiction Awards

• Arthur Ellis Award For Best Novel
• Aurora Award, English Language Book
• The CAA Mosaid Technology, Inc. Award For Fiction
• Canada Reads
• CBA Libris Fiction Book Of The Year
• Giller Prize
• Governor General's Literary Award For Fiction
• National Book Award—Fiction
• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal For Humour
• Sunburst Award For Canadian Literature Of The Fantastic
• Trillium Award

Non-Fiction Awards

• CAA Birks Family Foundation Award
• CAA Carol Bolt Award
• CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award
• CAA Lela Common Award For Canadian History
• CBA Libris Non-Fiction Book Of The Year
• Charles Taylor Prize For Literary Non-Fiction
• Donner Prize
• Drainie Taylor Biography Prize. The Writers' Trust Of Canada
• Governor General's Literary Award For Drama, English Language
• Governor General's Literary Award For Non Fiction, English Language
• Governor General's Literary Award For Poetry, English Language
• Lionel Gelber Prize
• National Business Book Award
• National Book Award—Non Fiction
• National Book Award—Poetry
• Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize (Formerly Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize)
• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal For Humour
• Trillium Award
• Writers' Trust Of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Award For Political Writing

OLA Forest of Reading Awards

• Evergreen Award
• Golden Oak Award

International Awards

• Booker Prize
• Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize
• Kiriyama Prize
• National Book Critics Circle Prize For Fiction
• Orange Prize For Fiction
• Pulitzer Prize For Fiction