Giant Squid

Blocks

Last Stop on Market Street

A Map into the World

How the Sun Got to Coco's House

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates

What Forest Knows

Fortune Cookies

Ragweed's Farm Dog Handbook

Thank You Omu!

The Twins' Blanket

Buster and the Baby

Monet Paints a Day

Building Our House

Me... Jane

Saturday

Before She Was Harriet

Edgar’s Second Word

Sleep Like a Tiger

All the Way to Havana

Three By the Sea

The Big Snow

Freedom in Congo Square

Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall Asleep

Waiting

The Cow Who Climbed a Tree

Beautiful Moon : A Child's Prayer

My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood

Saturday is Swimming Day

A Poem in Your Pocket

Each Kindness

Go to Sleep, Little Farm

Jabari Jumps

In the Middle of Fall

My New Mom & Me

Samantha on a Roll

Maybe Something Beautiful- How Art Transformed a Neighborhood

Spike, the Mixed-Up Monster

Hooray for Hat! 

Stripes of All Types

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

 Water Is Water: A Book about the Water Cycle

Round

Charlotte Zolotow Award

 No Go Sleep!

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature

When's My Birthday?

The Day You Begin

Carmela Full of Wishes

 Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla

All the Water in the World

Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller

Nothing Like a Puffin

If You Were a Dog

Baby Goes to Market

Drum Dream Girl

Truman

Apple Pie ABC

Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade

Hannah and Sugar

Honey

These Hands

The Dark

Mama's Nightingale

Thunder Boy Jr.

Johnny's Pheasant

Max and the Tag Along Moon

The New Small Person

The Sound of Silence

The Patchwork Bike

Daniel Finds a Poem

Tea Cakes for Tosh

When Sophie’s Feelings Are Really, Really Hurt

Goodnight, Good Dog

Sparky!

Oh, No!

Big Cat, Little Cat

School’s First Day of School

Niko Draws a Feeling

Pokko and the Drum

Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Beneath the Sun

Alan's Big, Scary Teeth

 underGROUND

A Bike Like Sergio's

Little Brown

Miss Hazeltine's Home for Shy and Fearful Cats

Little Wolf’s First Howling

Me and Momma and Big John.

Dreamers

A Different Pond

Tap Tap Boom Boom

The Rough Patch

One Big Pair of Underwear

Naamah and the Ark at Night

Sophie's Squash

Niño Wrestles the World

The Princess and the Warrior

My Blue Is Happy

Spike: the Mixed-Up Monster

 The Princess and the Warrior

A big mooncake for little star

A Big Mooncake for Little Star

The One Day House

*Monet Paints a Day

Hooray for Hat!

The Silver Button

Winter Is Here

Winter is Here

 Year of the Jungle

Me and Momma and Big John

Maybe Something Beautiful

We March

Flabbersmashed about You

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

Little Wolf's First Howling

This is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

Herbert’s First Halloween

Herbert's First Halloween

Thunder Boy Jr. 

Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise

Thank You, Omu!

Oh No!

 School’s First Day of School

2012 Charlotte Zolotow Award

Under Ground

2013 Charlotte Zolotow Award

2014 Charlotte Zolotow Award

2015 Charlotte Zolotow Award

2016 Charlotte Zolotow Award

2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award

2018 Charlotte Zolotow Award

2019 Charlotte Zolotow Award

2020 Charlotte Zolotow Award

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 Award

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 2022 winner and finalists [__here__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/caldecott-medal-2022/aYAaohKwE7daeqHHy1i1SbszqGPBJBaU409xVlKGqxKg88tnrX).

Caldecott Award

Caldecott Medal

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 2022 winner and finalists [__here__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-2022/SsqveID60UTf8nPXaaRyB8Z7bWX4exIuxFO4QKg8cDpzXS8dTp).

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 2024 nominees [__here__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/blue-spruce-award-2024/0V2LA1WtxzNDS2lRSsn14VlUeYqs7ushEVrXrfcKwJnhSAYINZ).

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 2022 nominees [__here__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/governor-generals-award-young-peoples-literature-2022/S8YeoqjhsLDNTLP4TPGt76znlubn6RJwKQDhDCxCqmFAbdAbkE).

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 2023 nominees [__here__](http://lists.tpl.ca/shared/marilyn-baillie-picture-book-award-2023/FkzE6uYAXcQg6qY42Ax9H1SePmfGwuJ57A9qaGjMTBfVlJSE9a).

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

2015 Charlotte Zolotow Award

Winners

Sparky!

Shortlist

Beneath the Sun

Beautiful Moon : A Child's Prayer

Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall Asleep

Edgar’s Second Word

Go to Sleep, Little Farm

Hooray for Hat!

If You Were a Dog

Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla

One Big Pair of Underwear

Tap Tap Boom Boom

What Forest Knows

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