Recent Award Winners
The Friendship Blanket
By Leonarda Carranza, Erika Rodriguez Medina
Awards
- Nominated, OLA Blue Spruce Award, 2026
Is There a Boy Like Me?
By Kern Carter
Awards
- Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2025
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2025
- Nominated, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, Northern Lights, 2026
- Nominated, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2026
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2025
Meet Jim Egan (Scholastic Canada Biography)
By Elizabeth MacLeod, Mike Deas
Awards
- Winner, Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction, 2025
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2025
- Commended, 2SLGBTQI+ Children's Book Project, IBBY Canada, 2026
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2024
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, Honourable Mention, Junior Non-Fiction, 2024
Nish: Northern Lights
By Isabelle Picard, Kateri Aubin Dubois
Awards
- Long-listed, First Nation Communities READ Award, 2025
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club Selection, 2026
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2025
Kaiah’s Garden
By Melanie Florence, Karlene Harvey
Awards
- Long-listed, First Nation Communities READ Award, 2025
Playdate Surprise
By Karen Autio, Laura Watson
Awards
- Winner, The Word Awards, Books, General Market Fiction, Children, 2025
- Nominated, The Word Awards - Debra Fieguth Social Justice Award, 2025
A Bucket of Stars
By Suri Rosen
Awards
- Winner, Vine National Canadian Jewish Book Award, 2024
- Short-listed, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2024
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2024
- Short-listed, IODE Canada Violet Downey Award, 2024
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2024
At the Speed of Gus
By Richard Scrimger
Awards
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, Northern Lights, 2025
- Short-listed, IBBY Canada, Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities, 2025
- Short-listed, Joan Betty Stuchner - Oy Vey! - Funniest Children's Book Award, 2025
Still My Tessa
By Sylv Chiang, Mathias Ball
Awards
- Winner, CBC Kids Reads, 2024
- Nominated, OLA Blue Spruce Award, 2025
- Nominated, Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2025
- Commended, 2SLGBTQI+ Children's Book Project, IBBY Canada, 2026
- Commended, American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table Book List, 2025
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2024
- Commended, OLA Best Bets Top Ten, 2024
Nutshimit: In the Woods
By Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Elise Gravel
Awards
- Winner, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2024
- Short-listed, TD Summer Reading Club - Top 10 Recommended Read, 2025
- Commended, Bologna Ragazzi Award for Sustainability, 2025
- Commended, Indigenous Picture Book Collection, IBBY Canada, 2025
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2024
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2024
Asking for a Friend
By Ronnie Riley
Awards
- Nominated, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2025
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2024
Iggy Included
By Deborah Kerbel
Awards
- Short-listed, IODE Canada Violet Downey Award, 2025
- Runner-up, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2025
- Nominated, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2025
- Nominated, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2025
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2025
Haunted: Graphic Novel, Volume 1: Four Terrifying Tales
By Joel A. Sutherland, Hannah Barrett, David Bishop, Matt Salisbury, Jenn Woodall
Awards
- Winner, OLA Yellow Cedar Award, 2025
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2025
Taking the Ice
By Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Awards
- Winner, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2024
- Short-listed, Sundogs, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2023
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2022
We Belong Here
By Frieda Wishinsky, Ruth Ohi
Awards
- Short-listed, IODE Jean Throop Award, 2024
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2025
Today I Am: 10 Stories of Belonging
By Jael Richardson, Marty Chan, Rosena Fung, Michael Hutchinson, Chad Lucas, Angela Misri, Mahtab Narsimhan, Danny Ramandan, Jael Richardson, Liselle Sambury
Awards
- Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2025
- Nominated, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2025
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2025
Nish: North and South
By Isabelle Picard, Kateri Aubin Dubois
Awards
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, Sundogs, 2025
- Long-listed, First Nation Communities READ Award, 2024
P.S. Tell No One
By Vikki VanSickle
Awards
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2024
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2023
I Can, Too!
By Karen Autio, Laura Watson
Awards
- Winner, The Word Awards - Books, General Market Fiction, Children, 2023
- Short-listed, The Word Awards - Debra Fieguth Social Justice Award, 2023
- Commended, CBC Kids Reads, 2023
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club Selection, 2023
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2022
How to Be a Goldfish
By Jane Baird Warren
Awards
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, Northern Lights, 2024
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2024
- Short-listed, Jean Little First-Novel Award, 2023
- Short-listed, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 2023
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2023
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023