Awards & Winners

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award

The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award is an annual award for new American children's books, given in Vermont and named after Vermont author Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The winning book is chosen by the vote of Vermont schoolchildren. The award was first given in 1957. It is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries. Each spring, a committee of eight adult judges carefully selects 30 books originally published in the previous year to comprise the shortlist for the award. Vermont schoolchildren who have read at least 5 books from the list then vote for their favorite titles the following spring. The winning author is invited to visit Vermont to speak with children about the experience of writing literature for young people.
Date Established : 1957

Check all the winners of Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award presented under Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award since 1957 .


Suzanne Collins

Honored for : The Hunger Games

Jeff Kinney

Honored for : Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
K. A. Applegate Home of the Brave
6 up
Edward Irving Wortis The Traitors\u2019 Gate
5 up
Natalie Babbitt Jack Plank Tells Tales
4 up
Ibtisam Barakat Tasting The Sky
7 up
Loree Griffin Burns Tracking Trash
5 up
Andrew Clements No Talking
4 up
Christopher Paul Curtis Elijah of Buxton
6 up
Russell Freedman Who Was First?
5 up
John Grandits Blue Lipstick
6 up
Jessie Haas Chase
5 up
Shannon Hale Book of a Thousand Days
6 up
Kirkpatrick Hill Do Not Pass Go
6 up
Jennifer L. Holm Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf
5 up
John Hulme The Glitch in Sleep
5 up
Lynne Jonell Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
4 up
Cynthia Kadohata Cracker!
6 up
Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid
5 up
Gordon Korman Schooled
6 up
Adam Rex The True Meaning of Smekday
5 up
James Rumford Beowulf
4 up
Laura Amy Schlitz Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
5 up
Gary D. Schmidt The Wednesday Wars
6 up
Brian Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret
4 up
Roland Smith Elephant Run
7 up
James Sturm Satchel Paige
6 up
Sarah L. Thomson Dragon's Egg
4 up
Linda Urban A Crooked Kind of Perfect
5 up
Sara Varon Robot Dreams
4 up
Rosemary Wells Red Moon at Sharpsburg
6 up
Ruth White Way Down Deep
5 up

Cynthia Lord

Honored for : Rules

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tony Abbott Firegirl
5 up
Matthew Tobin Anderson The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
5 up
Mary Jane Auch One-Handed Catch
5 up
Frances O'Roark Dowell Phineas L. MacGuire\u2026Erupts
4 up
Sarah Ellis Odd Man Out
6 up
Sid Fleischman Escape!
6 up
Sid Fleischman The White Elephant
4 up
Susan Fletcher Alphabet of Dreams
7 up
Russell Freedman Marco Polo
5 up
Isabella Hatkoff Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
4 up
Will Hobbs
6 up
Cynthia Kadohata Weedflower
6 up
Watt Key Alabama moon
6 up
Mark Kurlansky The story of salt
4 up
Kirby Larson Hattie Big Sky
6 up
Iain Lawrence Gemini Summer
5 up
Martine Leavitt Keturah And Lord Death
7 up
Janet Taylor Lisle Black duck
6 up
Cynthia Lord Rules
5 up
Lois Lowry Gossamer
5 up
K. A. Nuzum A Small White Scar
6 up
Katherine Paterson Bread and roses, too
5 up
Susan Patron The Higher Power of Lucky
4 up
Shelley Pearsall All of the above
6 up
Laura Amy Schlitz A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
5 up
Sharon Shinn Dream-maker's Magic
6 up
Nancy Springer The Case of the Missing Marquess
5 up
Stephanie S. Tolan Listen!
5 up
Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia
6 up
Elizabeth Winthrop Counting on Grace
5 up

Carl Hiaasen

Honored for : Flush

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Peter Abrahams Down the Rabbit Hole
6 up
Jennifer Allison Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator
6 up
Margaret Bechard Spacer and Rat
7 up
Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks
4 up
Betty G. Birney Seven wonders of Sassafras Springs
4 up
Gary Blackwood Second Sight
5 up
Elise Broach Shakespeare's Secret
5 up
Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
4 up
James M. Deem Bodies from the ash
5 up
Frances O'Roark Dowell Chicken Boy
5 up
Clare B. Dunkle By These Ten Bones
7 up
Sid Fleischman The giant rat of Sumatra
4 up
James Cross Giblin Good brother, bad brother
6 up
Nancy Graff Taking Wing
5 up
Shannon Hale Princess Academy
6 up
Pete Hautman Invisible
7 up
Carl Hiaasen Flush
5 up
Julius Lester Day of Tears
7 up
David Lubar Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
7 up
Isaac Millman Hidden Child
4 up
Gerald Morris The lioness & her knight
6 up
Donna Jo Napoli The king of Mulberry Street
5 up
Lynne Rae Perkins Criss Cross
6 up
Daniel Pinkwater The Artsy Smartsy Club
4 up
Rebecca Rupp The return of the dragon
4 up
Graham Salisbury Eyes of the Emperor
7 up
Joyce Sidman Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
4 up
Pamela S. Turner Gorilla Doctors
4 up
Gloria Whelan Listening for lions
5 up
Tim Wynne-Jones A thief in the house of memory
7 up

Mary Downing Hahn

Honored for : The Old Willis Place

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Dave Barry Peter and the Starcatchers
4 up
Joseph Bruchac Hidden roots
6 up
Gennifer Choldenko Al Capone Does My Shirts
5 up
Carolyn Coman The big house
4 up
Sharon Creech Heartbeat
5 up
Michael De Guzman Beekman's Big Deal
5 up
Russell Freedman The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
5 up
Patricia Reilly Giff A house of tailors
5 up
Lorie Ann Grover On Pointe
6 up
Mary Downing Hahn The Old Willis Place
5 up
Pete Hautman Godless
7 up
Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira
5 up
Ursula K. Le Guin Gifts
6 up
Carolyn Marsden Silk umbrellas
4 up
Ann M. Martin Here Today
6 up
Margaret McMullan How I found the Strong
5 up
Sy Montgomery The Tarantula Scientist
4 up
Gerald Morris The princess, the crone, and the dung-cart knight
5 up
Donna Jo Napoli Bound
6 up
Richard Peck The teacher's funeral
5 up
Rodman Philbrick Young Man and the Sea
5 up
Daniel Pinkwater Looking for Bobowicz
5 up
Jack Prelutsky If not for the cat
4 up
Pam Muñoz Ryan Becoming Naomi León
4 up
Gary D. Schmidt Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
6 up
Jon Scieszka Science Verse
4 up
Neal Shusterman The Schwa Was Here
6 up
Jean Van Leeuwen Cabin on Trouble Creek
5 up
Andrea Warren Escape from Saigon
6 up
Gloria Whelan Chu Ju's house
5 up

Kate DiCamillo

Honored for : The Tale of Despereaux

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Matthew Tobin Anderson Strange Mr. Satie
4 up
Frances Arrington Prairie whispers
5 up
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley For freedom
6 up
Ann Cameron Colibri
6 up
Bonnie Christensen The daring Nellie Bly
4 up
Esme Raji Codell Sahara Special
4 up
Suzanne Collins Gregor the Overlander
4 up
Karen Cushman Rodzina
5 up
Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux
4 up
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Conch Bearer
5 up
Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
5 up
Kristine L. Franklin Grape thief
5 up
Russell Freedman In defense of liberty
6 up
Jan Greenberg Runaway Girl
7 up
Mary Downing Hahn Hear the Wind Blow
6 up
Kevin Henkes Olive's Ocean
5 up
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock Gifts from the sea
4 up
Ronald Koertge Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
7 up
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton Facing The Lion: Growing Up Maasai On The African Savanna
6 up
Laura Williams McCaffrey Alia Waking
5 up
Gerald Morris The ballad of Sir Dinadan
6 up
Kathleen O'Dell Agnes Parker...Girl In Progress
4 up
Gary Paulsen How Angel Peterson Got His Name
5 up
Richard Peck The River Between Us
7 up
Tor Seidler Brainboy and the DeathMaster
4 up
Stephen R. Swinburne The woods scientist
4 up
Ruth White Tadpole
5 up
Janet S Wong Minn and Jake's almost terrible summer
4 up
Jacqueline Woodson Locomotion
5 up
Jane Yolen Sword of the rightful king
7 up

Jerry Spinelli

Honored for : Loser

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lloyd Alexander The Rope Trick
5 up
Julia Alvarez Before We Were Free
7 up
Edward Irving Wortis Crispin: The Cross of Lead
6 up
Marion Dane Bauer Runt
4 up
Betsy Byars Keeper of the Doves
4 up
Cathryn Clinton A stone in my hand
6 up
Jacqueline Davies Where the Ground Meets the Sky
5 up
Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion
6 up
Jean Ferris Once Upon a Marigold
5 up
John Fleischman Phineas Gage
5 up
Neil Gaiman Coraline
5 up
Jack Gantos What Would Joey Do?
5 up
Kristine George Swimming upstream
5 up
Michelle Y. Green A Strong Right Arm
4 up
Carl Hiaasen Hoot
6 up
James Howe It came from beneath the bed!
4 up
Lois Lowry Gooney Bird Greene
4 up
Carolyn Marsden The gold-threaded dress
4 up
Ann M. Martin A Corner of the Universe
5 up
L.A. Meyer Bloody Jack
6 up
Walter Dean Myers Patrol
4 up
Donna Jo Napoli Daughter of Venice
6 up
Linda Sue Park When my Name was Keoko
6 up
Elizabeth Partridge This Land Was Made for You and Me
6 up
Katherine Paterson The Same Stuff as Stars
5 up
Jerry Spinelli Loser
5 up
Stephanie S. Tolan Surviving the Applewhites
5 up
Vivian Vande Velde Heir Apparent
6 up
Sally M. Walker Fossil Fish Found Alive
5 up
Jacqueline Woodson Hush
6 up

Sharon Creech

Honored for : Love That Dog

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Matthew Tobin Anderson Handel, Who Knew What He Liked
Gennifer Choldenko Notes from a liar and her dog
Bonnie Christensen Woody Guthrie
Sharon Creech Love That Dog
Sis Deans Racing the past
Susan Fletcher
Jan Greenberg Vincent Van Gogh
Jessie Haas Runaway Radish
Karen Hesse Witness
Kimberly Willis Holt Dancing in Cadillac light
Polly Horvath Everything on a Waffle
Patrice Kindl Goose Chase: A Novel
David Klass You Don't Know Me
Jane Kurtz Jakarta missing
Sy Montgomery Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans
Gerald Morris Parsifal's page
Richard Mosher Zazoo
Walter Dean Myers Bad boy
An Na A Step From Heaven
Linda Sue Park A Single Shard
Gary Paulsen Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Jack Prelutsky Awful Ogre's Awful Day
Graham Salisbury Lord of the deep
Nancy Springer I am Morgan le Fay
Mildred D. Taylor The Land
Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped
Deborah Wiles Love, Ruby Lavender
Vera Williams Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart
Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer
N. F. Zucker Benno'S Bear

Kate DiCamillo

Honored for : Because of Winn-Dixie

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Marc Aronson Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Edward Irving Wortis Ereth's Birthday
Joan Bauer Hope Was Here
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Weaver's daughter
Sharon Creech The Wanderer
Tomie dePaola Here We All Are
Kate DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie
Nancy Etchemendy The Power Of Un
Jack Gantos Joey Pigza Loses Control
Patricia Reilly Giff Nory Ryan's Song
Jan Greenberg Frank O. Gehry
Kirkpatrick Hill The Year of Miss Agnes
Julius Lester Pharaoh's daughter
Ellen Levine Darkness Over Denmark
Janet Taylor Lisle The Art of Keeping Cool
Chris Lynch Gold dust
Ann M. Martin The Doll People
Gerald Morris The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf (The Squire's Tales) book 3
Jim Murphy Blizzard
Rita Murphy Night flying
Walter Dean Myers 145th Street Stories
Linda Sue Park The Kite Fighters
Richard Peck A Year Down Yonder
Rodman Philbrick The Last Book in the Universe
Judith St. George So You Want to Be President?
Jerry Spinelli Stargirl
Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird
Ruth White Memories of Summer
Ellen Wittlinger Gracie's girl
Jacqueline Woodson Miracle's Boys

Christopher Paul Curtis

Honored for : Bud, Not Buddy

Louis Sachar

Honored for : Holes

Gail Carson Levine

Honored for : Ella Enchanted

Peg Kehret

Honored for : Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio

Barbara Park

Honored for : Mick Harte was Here

Mary Downing Hahn

Honored for : Time for Andrew

Susan Cooper

Honored for : The Boggart

Bruce Coville

Honored for : Jennifer Murdley\u2019s Toad

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Honored for : Shiloh

Jerry Spinelli

Honored for : Maniac Magee

Lois Lowry

Honored for : Number the Stars

Amy Ehrlich

Honored for : Where it Stops Nobody Knows

Gary Paulsen

Honored for : Hatchet

Mary Downing Hahn

Honored for : Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story

Elizabeth Winthrop

Honored for : The Castle in the Attic

Robert Kimmel Smith

Honored for : The War with Grandpa

Beverly Cleary

Honored for : Dear Mr. Henshaw

Pat Rhoades Mauser

Honored for : A Bundle of Sticks

Judy Blume

Honored for : Tiger Eyes

Francine Pascal

Honored for : The Hand-Me-Down Kid

James Howe

Honored for : Bunnicula

David Budbill

Honored for : Bones on Black Spruce Mountain

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Honored for : Kid Power Strikes Back

Lois Duncan

Honored for : Summer of fear

Stella Pevsner

Honored for : A Smart Kid Like You

Jean Merrill

Honored for : The toothpaste millionaire

Betsy Byars

Honored for : Eighteenth Emergency

George A. Woods

Honored for : Catch a Killer

Donald E. Caufield

Honored for : Never Steal a Magic Cat

Mel Ellis

Honored for : Flight of the white wolf

B. K. Erwin

Honored for : Go to the Room of the Eyes

Walt Morey

Honored for : Kävik the Wolf Dog

M. W. Thompson

Honored for : Two in the Wilderness

Jacqueline Jackson

Honored for : The Taste of Spruce Gum

Phillip Viereck

Honored for : The Summer I Was Lost

Beverly Cleary

Honored for : Ribsy

Sterling North

Honored for : Rascal

Kelly Ray Masters

Honored for : The Bristle Face

Sheila Burnford

Honored for : The Incredible Journey

Honore Lampman

Honored for : City under the Back Steps

Thelma Bell

Honored for : Captain Ghost

Phoebe Erickson

Honored for : Double or Nothing

Margaret Carver Leighton

Honored for : Comanche of the Seventh

Beverly Cleary

Honored for : Fifteen

Mildred Mastin Pace

Honored for : Old Bones, the Wonder Horse