Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award

Given by Ontario Arts Foundation

Other Names: Ruth Schwartz Award
82 Works 24,823 Books 1,002 Reviews 4.1
The Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award includes two yearly prizes – one for a children’s picture book and one for a young adult book. Winning books are selected by juries of children from a show more public school in Ontario. The winning book must have been published in Canada during the previous year and the author must be a Canadian citizen. Since 2004, the award has been known as The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (78), Shortlist (4)
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Years:
All, 2023 (2), 2022 (2), 2021 (2), 2020 (2), 2019 (2), 2018 (2), 2017 (3), 2016 (2), 2015 (2), 2014 (2), 2013 (2), 2012 (2), 2011 (2), 2010 (2), 2009 (3), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (2), 2000 (3), 1999 (2), 1998 (2), 1997 (2), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (2), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1)

Winner 78

WorkCategoryYear
This is the Boat That Ben Built by Jen Lynn BaileyChildren's Picture Book2023
Road of the Lost by Nafiza AzadYoung Adult / Middle Reader2023
Firefly by Philippa Dowding2022
Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know by Brittany Luby2022
Sara and the Search for Normal by Wesley King2021
Fast Friends by Heather M. O'Connor2021
A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying by Kelley Armstrong2020
Lili Macaroni by Nicole Testa2020
Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes by Wab Kinew2019
Sadia by Colleen Nelson2019
Stolen Words by Melanie Florence2018
The Agony of Bun O'Keefe by Heather T. Smith2018
The Night Gardener by Terry Fan2017
OCDaniel by Wesley King2017
Mr. Postmouse's Rounds by Marianne Dubuc2016
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen2016
The Magician of Auschwitz by Kathy Kacer2015
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel2015
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten2014
Loula Is Leaving for Africa by Anne Villeneuve2014
A Hen for Izzy Pippik by Aubrey Davis2013
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen2013
The Whole Truth by Kit Pearson2012
Loon by Susan Vande Griek2012
Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel2011
Chester's Masterpiece by Mélanie Watt2011
Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by Jane Barclay2010
Vanishing Girl by Shane Peacock2010
Libertad by Alma Fullerton2009
Chester's Back! by Melanie Watt2009
Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel2008
The Boy from the Sun by Duncan Weller2008
I Am a Taxi (The Cocalero Novels) by Deborah Ellis2007
Scaredy Squirrel by Mélanie Watt2007
Caramba by Marie-Louise Gay2006
Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel2006
Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards2005
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel2005
Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle2004
The Subway Mouse by Barbara Reid2004
Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis2003
The Night Walker by Richard Thompson2003
Oma's Quilt by Paulette Bourgeois2002
Seven for a Secret: A Novel by Mary C. Sheppard2002
Chicken Cat by Stephanie Simpson McLellan2001
The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton2001
Stella, Star of the Sea by Marie-Louise Gay2000
Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel2000
Music for the Tsar of the Sea by Celia Barker Lottridge1999
War of the Eagles by Eric Walters1999
Jeremiah Learns to Read by Jo Ellen Bogart1998
Bone Dance by Martha Brooks1998
Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson1997
Ghost Train by Paul Yee1997
The Killick: A Newfoundland Story by Geoff Butler1996
Out of the Dark by Welwyn Wilton Katz1996
A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840 by Barbara Greenwood1995
Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me by Julie Johnston1995
Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak1994
The Hunter's Moon by O. R. Melling1994
Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman1993
Roses Sing on New Snow: A Delicious Tale by Paul Yee1992
Forbidden City by William Bell1991
Bad Boy by Diana Wieler1990
Amos's Sweater by Janet Lunn1989
The Doll by Cora Taylor1988
Have You Seen Birds? by Joanne Oppenheim1987
Thomas' Snowsuit by Robert Munsch1986
Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird by Jean Little1985
Zoom at Sea by Tim Wynne-Jones1984
Jasmin by Jan Truss1983
One Proud Summer by Marsha Hewitt1982
The King's Daughter by Suzanne Martel1981
Days of Terror by Barbara Smucker1980
Hold Fast by Kevin Major1979
Garbage Delight by Dennis Lee1978
The Violin, from the Story by George Pastic and Andrew Welsh by Robert Thomas Allen1977
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler1976

Shortlist 4

WorkYear
The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield2017
The Shadow of Malabron: The Perilous Realm: Book One by Thomas Wharton2009
Claire's Gift by Maxine Trottier2000
My Mother's Ghost by Margaret Buffie1992

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