The National Chapter of Canada IODE Violet Downey Book Award Winning Authors

YEAR	AUTHOR	BOOK TITLE	PUBLISHER
1985	Mary Ellen Lang Collura	Winners	Prairie Books
1986	Marianne Brandis	The Quarter-Pie Window	The Porcupine's Quill, Inc.
1987	Janet Lunn	Shadow in Hawthorn Bay	Lester & Orpen Dennys
1988	Donn Kushner	A Book Dragon	Macmillan of Canada
1989			No award presented
1990	Paul Yee	Tales from Gold Mountain	Douglas & McIntyre (Groundwood)
1991	Michael Bedard	Redwork	Lester & Orpen Dennys
1991	Barbara Smucker	Incredible Jumbo	Viking/Penguin Books Canada Limited
1992	Sheryl McFarlane	Waiting for the Whales	Orca Books
1993	Julie Johnston	Hero of Lesser Causes	Lester Publishing Limited
1994	Kit Pearson	The Lights go on Again	Penguin
1995	Sarah Ellis	Out of the Blue	Groundwood / Douglas & McIntyre
1996	Jean Little	His Banner Over Me	Penguin
1997	Janet McNaughton	To Dance at the Palais Royale	Tuckamore Books
1998	Celia Barker Lottridge	Wings to Fly	Groundwood / Douglas & McIntyre
1999	Gayle Friesen	Janey’s Girl	Kids Can Press
2000	Katherine Holubitsky	Alone at Ninety Foot	Orca Book
2001	Sharon E. McKay	Charlie Wilcox	Stoddart Kids
2002	Brian Doyle	Mary Ann Alice	Groundwood Books / Douglas & McIntyre
2003	Karen Levine	Hana’s Suitcase	Second Story Press
2004	Sara Ellis	The Several Lives of Orphan Jack	Groundwood Books / Douglas & McIntyre
2005	Anne Dublin	Bobbie Rosenfeld The Olympian Who Could Do Anything	Second Story Press
2006	Rachna Gilmore	The Sower of Tales	Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2007	Eric Walters	Shattered	Viking Canada
2008	Shane Peacock	Eye of the Crow	Tundra Books
2009	Budge Wilson	Before Green Gables	Penguin Group
2010	Shane Peacock	Vanishing Girl The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 3rd Case	Tundra Books
2011	Virginia Frances Schwartz	Crossing to Freedom	Scholastic Canada
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