Mr. Postmouse's Rounds

Picture a Tree

The Stamp Collector

Nancy Knows

Wild Ideas

Pirates of the Silver Coast

Night Sky Wheel Ride

The Legend of the Fog

A Long Way Away

The Most Magnificent Thing

The Legend of Lightning & Thunder

Small Saul

Migrant

Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Award

Mr. King’s Things

Sidewalk Flowers

You are Stardust

Northwest Passage

The Qalupalik

Once Upon a Northern Night

Jane, the Fox and Me

Gustave

Bob's Hungry Ghost

Some Things I've Lost

The Dark

A Few Blocks

Oscar Lives Next Door

The Tooth Mouse

If…

The Man with the Violin

Julia, Child

Goodnight, Canada

Into the Woods

Dolphin SOS

The Tweedles go Electric

Any Questions?

Cinnamon Baby

This is Sadie

Bug in a Vacuum

The Bus Ride

The French Fry King

Virginia Wolf

My Name is Elizabeth

Little You

Loula is Leaving for Africa

Way Back Then

The Princess and the Pony

Along a Long Road

Ojibway Clans

*If…

*The Legend of Lightning & Thunder

*The Stamp Collector

*Pirates of the Silver Coast

*The Qalupalik

*Jane, the Fox and Me

*Ojibway Clans

*Northwest Passage

*Migrant

*Into the Woods

The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award was awarded until 2016 to an outstanding illustrator of a Canadian children's book. Ages: 0-12 years

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

My Name is Elizabeth!

*The Legend of the Fog

You Are Stardust

2012 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

2013 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

2014 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

2015 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

2016 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

[__Check out the 2025 winner and finalists.__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/caldecott-medal-2025/hrqkl2puNlzPaTZxrC4egYQTmH5BK8YLPQIGObwFKk79DTFjKT)

Caldecott Award

Caldecott Medal

Awarded annually by the Cooperative Children's Book Center since 1998, the Charlotte Zolotow Award is given for outstanding writing in a picture book. 

Ages: 0-7 years

Charlotte Zolotow Award

Founded in 1969, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards recognize outstanding Black authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that portray an aspect of the Black experience. The awards include several categories and are given annually at the American Library Association conference. 

[__Check out the 2024 winner and finalists.__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-2024/QvEe32ZUnpwdN7KFgFQQjvXNDUd5OOu5OE2Q8gWXxfslVr2fLT)

Founded in 1969, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards recognize outstanding Black authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that portray an aspect of the Black experience. The awards include several categories and are given annually at the American Library Association conference.

Coretta Scott King Book Award

Coretta Scott King Book Award – Illustrator

First Nation Communities READ is an annual reading program launched in 2003 by the First Nations public library community in Ontario. 

Check out the 2021-2022 winner and finalists [__here__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/first-nation-communities-read-awards-childrens-2021-2022/GiVhsXlryR3DyYQMxHhg2JlLVPIkLIcJdm6RRdP0HncyUQY17i).

First Nation Communities Read

First Nation Communities READ: PMC Indigenous Literature Award - Children's

The Blue Spruce Award program brings recently published Canadian children's picture books to children in kindergarten to Grade 2. It is part of the Forest of Reading, an annual initiative of the Ontario Library Association. 

[__Check out the 2025 nominees.__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/blue-spruce-award-2025/oW37cFf4NkUnnoFQLoZCfjs1hICcTJ2olRKGAKiJcjabUsFz7J)

Blue Spruce Seal 

Forest of Reading – The Blue Spruce Award

The Governor General's Literary Award: Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books is awarded annually to an author and an illustrator for a children's book written in English. 

[__Check out the 2024 nominees.__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/governor-generals-award-young-peoples-literature-2024/IVBDXcRMLiSwtsy5cuxh058pGwKI3v0U86QNgIVA0hQ6r3bwjm)

Governor General Literary Award

Governor General's Literary Award: Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books

Established in 2006, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award honours excellence in the illustrated picture book format.

[Check out the 2024 nominees.](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/marilyn-baillie-picture-book-award-2024/hEyvOg6Kroa1TjERaRfKd0nM0KwUWdicFg4ArzAReT1oIQpeyU)

Marilyn Baillie Award

Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

Our top picks of the best Canadian children's books for building reading readiness in kids under five. Because the first books you share with your child should also be the best!

Toronto Public Library - First and Best

Ready for Reading

2016 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

Winners

Sidewalk Flowers

Shortlist

Bug in a Vacuum

The Bus Ride

Mr. Postmouse's Rounds

Oscar Lives Next Door

The Princess and the Pony

Some Things I've Lost

This is Sadie

Way Back Then

Wild Ideas

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