Picture a Tree

The Snow Knows

The Stamp Collector

Nancy Knows

The Artist and Me

Africville

The Most Magnificent Thing

Stanley’s Little Sister

Small Saul

When I Found Grandma

The Funeral

Sam & Eva

Spork

InvisiBill

Mr. King’s Things

Stolen Words

Sidewalk Flowers

We Found a Hat

How To

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

I Know Here

The Wolf-Birds

Birdsong

They Say Blue

Hope Springs

Without You

Little Blue Chair

Where do you Look?

King Mouse

Fox and Squirrel

My Name Is Blessing

In a Cloud of Dust

Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?

I Am Not a Number

Seb and the Sun

The Man with the Violin

You Hold Me Up

The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden

Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox

My Beautiful Words

Dolphin SOS

Mr. Zinger's Hat

Cinnamon Baby

From There to Here

Small in the City

Singing Away the Dark

In Front of My House

Virginia Wolf

My Winter City

Mustafa

Uncle Wally’s Old Brown Shoe

The Darkest Dark

Marilyn Baillie Award

When the Moon Comes

*My Name Is Blessing

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 Picture Book Award

*Hope Springs

My Beautiful Birds

*The Stamp Collector

Where Do You Look?

I Am Not A Number

2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2012 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2013 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2014 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2015 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2016 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2017 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2018 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

2020 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book 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 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

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

2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

Winners

Africville

Shortlist

The Funeral

Mustafa

Seb and the Sun

They Say Blue

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