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

2012


 

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