Awards & Winners

Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature

Governor General's Awards

This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for children's literature. An award for juvenile literature existed from 1949 to 1958, and the current award was created in 1987.
Date Established : 1987

Check all the winners of Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature presented under Governor General's Awards since 1987 .


Wendy Phillips

Honored for : Fishtailing

Caroline Pignat

Honored for : Greener Grass: The Famine Years

John Ibbitson

Honored for : The Landing

Iain Lawrence

Honored for : Gemini Summer

William Gilkerson

Honored for : Pirate's Passage

Pamela Porter

Honored for : The Crazy Man

Kenneth Oppel

Honored for : Airborn

Glen Huser

Honored for : Stitches

Martha Brooks

Honored for : True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

Arthur Slade

Honored for : Dust

Deborah Ellis

Honored for : Looking for X

Rachna Gilmore

Honored for : A Screaming Kind of Day

Janet Lunn

Honored for : The Hollow Tree

Kit Pearson

Honored for : Awake and Dreaming

Paul Yee

Honored for : Ghost Train

Tim Wynne-Jones

Honored for : The Maestro

Julie Johnston

Honored for : Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me

Tim Wynne-Jones

Honored for : Some of the Kinder Planets

Julie Johnston

Honored for : Hero of Lesser Causes

Sarah Ellis

Honored for : Pick-Up Sticks

Michael Bedard

Honored for : Redwork

Diana Wieler

Honored for : Bad Boy

Welwyn Wilton Katz

Honored for : The Third Magic

Morgan Nyberg

Honored for : Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army