Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award facts for kids
The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award is a special prize given out every year in Canada. It celebrates the very best illustrated picture book for children. This award is supported by A. Charles Baillie and managed by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. The winner receives a prize of $20,000! The award is named after Marilyn Baillie, who writes children's books and used to teach young kids. She is married to A. Charles Baillie, who was once in charge of TD Bank.
This award is one of several important prizes given by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year. Other awards include the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction, which is for non-fiction books, and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, which is for historical stories. There is also the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.
Award Winners and Finalists
This section lists all the amazing books that have won or been finalists for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award since it started.
| Year | Author | Contributor(s) | Title | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Marie-Louise Gay | Caramba! | Winner | ||
| Nicola I. Campbell | Kim LaFave (illus.) | Shi-shi-etko | Finalist | ||
| Sharon Jennings | Mélanie Watt (illus.) | Bearcub and Mama | Finalist | ||
| Connie Kaldor and Carmen Campagne | Brian Deines (illus.) | Lullaby Berceuse: A Warm Prairie Night | Finalist | ||
| Mireille Levert | Eddie Longpants | Finalist | |||
| 2007 | Sara O’Leary | Julie Morstad (illus.) | When You Were Small | Winner | |
| Catherine Jameson | Julie Flett (illus.) | Zoe and the Fawn | Finalist | ||
| Barbara Reid | Fox Walked Alone | Finalist | |||
| Ellen Schwartz | Sima Elizabeth Shefrin (illus.) | Abby's Birds | Finalist | ||
| Mélanie Watt | Augustine | Finalist | |||
| Mélanie Watt | Scaredy Squirrel | Finalist | |||
| 2008 | Frieda Wishinsky | Marie-Louise Gay (illus.) | Please, Louise! | Winner | |
| Barroux | Jane MacAulay (trans.) | Super Handyman: The Master of Tools | Finalist | ||
| Nan Gregory | Luc Melanson (illus.) | Pink | Finalist | ||
| Robert Heidbreder | Dušan Petričić (illus.) | Lickety-Split | Finalist | ||
| 2009 | Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert | Dušan Petričić (illus.) | Mattland | Winner | |
| Nicola I. Campbell | Kim LaFave (illus.) | Shin-chi's Canoe | Finalist | ||
| Cary Fagan | Nicolas Debon (illus.) | Thing-Thing | Finalist | ||
| Pamela Hickman | Geraldo Valério (illus.) | It's Moving Day! | Finalist | ||
| Ruth Ohi | Chicken, Pig, Cow | Finalist | |||
| 2010 | Colleen Sydor | Nicolas Debon (illus.) | Timmerman Was Here | Winner | |
| Geneviève Côté | Me and You | Finalist | |||
| Janet Perlman | The Delicious Bug | Finalist | |||
| Joanne Schwartz | Laura Beingessner (illus.) | Our Corner Grocery Store | Finalist | ||
| Frieda Wishinsky | Kady MacDonald Denton (illus.) | You're Mean, Lily Jean | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | Laurel Croza | Matt James (illus.) | I Know Here | Winner | |
| Linda Bailey | Bill Slavin (illus.) | Stanley's Little Sister | Finalist | ||
| Marianne Dubuc | Yvette Ghione (trans.) | In Front of My House | Finalist | ||
| Kyo Maclear | Isabelle Arsenault (illus.) | Spork | Finalist | ||
| Caroline Woodward | Julie Morstad (illus.) | Singing Away the Dark | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | Geneviève Côté | Without You | Winner | ||
| Dan Bar-el | Rae Maté (illus.) | Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been? | Finalist | ||
| Barbara Reid | Picture a Tree | Finalist | |||
| Ashley Spires | Small Saul | Finalist | |||
| Nicola Winstanley | Janice Nadeau (illus.) | Cinnamon Baby | Finalist | ||
| 2013 | Cary Fagan | Dušan Petričić (illus.) | Mr. Zinger's Hat | Winner | |
| Geneviève Côté | Mr. King's Things | Finalist | |||
| Wallace Edwards | Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe | Finalist | |||
| Jennifer Lanthier | François Thisdale (illus.) | The Stamp Collector | Finalist | ||
| Kyo Maclear | Isabelle Arsenault (illus.) | Virginia Wolf | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Julie Morstad | How To | Winner | ||
| Marthe Jocelyn and Nell Jocelyn | Where Do You Look? | Finalist | |||
| Ruth Ohi | Fox and Squirrel | Finalist | |||
| Kathy Stinson | The Man with | Finalist | |||
| Eric Walters | My Name Is Blessing | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | Cybèle Young | Nancy Knows | Winner | ||
| Christine Baldacchino | Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress | Finalist | |||
| Laurel Croza | Matt James (illus.) | From There to Here | Finalist | ||
| Roy Miki and Slavia Miki | Julie Flett (illus.) | Dolphin SOS | Finalist | ||
| Ashley Spires | The Most Magnificent Thing | Finalist | |||
| Eric Walters | Eugenie Fernandes (illus.) | Hope Springs | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Danielle Daniel | Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox | Winner | ||
| Willow Dawson | The Wolf-Birds | Finalist | |||
| Maureen Fergus | Dušan Petričić (illus.) | InvisiBill | Finalist | ||
| Alma Fullerton | Brian Deines (illus.) | In a Cloud of Dust | Finalist | ||
| JonArno Lawson | Sydney Smith (illus.) | Sidewalk Flowers | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Jennifer McGrath | Josée Bisaillon (illus.) | The Snow Knows | Winner | |
| Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer | Gillian Newland (illus.) | I Am Not a Number | Finalist | ||
| Chris Hadfield and Kate Fillion | Erin and Terry Fan (illus.) | The Darkest Dark | Finalist | ||
| Jon Klassen | We Found a Hat | Finalist | |||
| Shane Peacock | Sophie Casson (illus.) | The Artist and Me | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Paul Harbridge | Matt James (illus.) | When the Moon Comes | Winner | |
| Suzanne Del Rizzo | My Beautiful Birds | Finalist | |||
| Cary Fagan | Madeline Kloepper (illus.) | Little Blue Chair | Finalist | ||
| Melanie Florence | Gabrielle Grimard (illus.) | Stolen Words | Finalist | ||
| Monique Gray Smith | Danielle Daniel (illus.) | You Hold Me Up | Finalist | ||
| Debbie Ridpath Ohi | Sam & Eva | Finalist | |||
| 2019 | Shauntay Grant | Eva Campbell (illus.) | Africville | Winner | |
| Marie-Louise Gay | Mustafa | Finalist | |||
| Jami Gigot | Seb and the Sun | Finalist | |||
| Matt James | The Funeral | Finalist | |||
| Jillian Tamaki | They Say Blue | Finalist | |||
| 2020 | Sydney Smith | Small in the City | Winner | ||
| Saumiya Balasubramaniam | Qin Leng (illus.) | When I Found Grandma | Finalist | ||
| Cary Fagan | Dena Seiferling (illus.) | King Mouse | Finalist | ||
| Julie Flett | Birdsong | Finalist | |||
| James Gladstone | Gary Clement (illus.) | My Winter City | Finalist | ||
| Heather Smith | Rachel Wada (illus.) | The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota’s Garden | Finalist | ||
| 2021 | Jillian Tamaki | Our Little Kitchen | Winner | ||
| Suzanne Del Rizzo | Miki Sato (illus.) | Golden Threads | Finalist | ||
| Terry, Eric, and Devin Fan | The Barnabus Project | Finalist | |||
| Naseem Hrab | Frank Viva (illus.) | Weekend Dad | Finalist | ||
| Rebecca Thomas | Maya McKibbin (illus.) | Swift Fox All Along | Finalist | ||
| 2022 | Julie Morstad | Time is a Flower | Winner | ||
| Julie Flett | We All Play/kimêtawânaw | Finalist | |||
| Bill Richardson | Bill Pechet (illus.) | Hare B&B | Finalist | ||
| David A. Robertson | Julie Flett (illus.) | On the Trapline | Finalist | ||
| Gracey Zhang | Lala's Words | Finalist | |||
| 2023 | Matthew Forsythe | Mina | Winner | ||
| Mariam Körner | Fox and Bear | Finalist | |||
| Marie-Louise Gay | I'm Not Sydney! | Finalist | |||
| Nancy Vo | Boobies | Finalist | |||
| Fan Brothers | Lizzy and the Cloud | Finalist |
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