The TD Canadian Children's Literature Award is an annual Canadian

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 literary award

Literary award

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, presented to the year's best work of children's literature

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

. Sponsored by TD Bank Financial Group and the Canadian Children's Book Centre

Canadian Children's Book Centre

Canadian Children's Book Centre is a national non-profit organization that dedicates its resources to promoting quality Canadian children's literature to parents, librarians, teachers, and youth across Canada...

, the award carries a monetary prize of $

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25,000.

Two awards are presented annually, one each for English language

English language

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 and French language

French language

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 works. The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction

Norma Fleck Award

The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction is a lucrative literary award founded in May 1999 by the Fleck Family Foundation and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, and presented to the year's best non-fiction book for a youth audience...

, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

Geoffrey Bilson Award

The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year...

 and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award is an annual Canadian literary award, presented to the year's best illustrated picture book for children. Sponsored by TD Bank Financial Group and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, the award carries a monetary prize of $25,000...

.

English

• 2005 - Marthe Jocelyn, Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum
• 2006 - Pamela Porter
  Pamela Porter
  Pamela Porter is an American novelist of children's literature and poetry. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has also lived in Texas, Louisiana, Washington and Montana. She immigrated to Canada with her husband, the fourth generation of a Saskatchewan farm family and now resides in...
  
  , The Crazy Man
• 2007 - Sarah Ellis
  Sarah Ellis (author)
  This article is about the contemporary Canadian children's author. For the 19th Century English author of books about women, see Sarah Stickney Ellis.Sarah Ellis is a Canadian children's author and librarian...
  
  , Odd Man Out
• 2008 - Christopher Paul Curtis
  Christopher Paul Curtis
  Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's author and a Newbery Medal winner who wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both the Coretta Scott King Award and the Newbery Medal...
  
  , Elijah of Buxton
• 2009 - Nicola I. Campbell, Shin-chi's Canoe
• 2010 - Arthur Slade
  Arthur Slade
  Arthur Gregory Slade is a Canadian author. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills and began writing in high school. He attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and received an English Honours degree in 1989. His first short story was...
  
  , The Hunchback Assignments
• 2011 - Erin Bow, Plain Kate
  Plain Kate (novel)
  Plain Kate is a Fantasy novel by author Erin Bow, published in 2010 by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic. The story, which draws from Russian folktales, focuses on an orphan girl nicknamed Plain Kate who is blamed for witchcraft because of her ability to carve wood, and who must deal...
  
  

French

• 2005 - François Barcelo, Le nul et la chipie
• 2006 - François Gravel, David et le salon funéraire
• 2007 - André LeBlanc
  André LeBlanc (artist)
  André LeBlanc was an American artist who worked on comic strips and comic books of the 1940s and 1950s. He was an instructor at New York's School of Visual Arts....
  
  , L’Envers de la chanson : des enfants au travail 1850-1950
• 2008 - Gilles Vigneault
  Gilles Vigneault
  Gilles Vigneault, is a Canadian poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.A poet deeply rooted in his native Quebec, Vigneault has become an icon at home and Quebec ambassador abroad...
  
  , Un cadeau pour Sophie
• 2009 - Anne Villeneuve, Chère Traudi
• 2010 - Mélanie Tellier and Melinda Josie, Le géranium

External links

• TD Canadian Children's Literature Award