CLA Book of the Year for Children
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Anne Laurel Carter | The Shepherd's Granddaughter |
| 2008 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Elijah of Buxton |
| 2007 | Hadley Dyer | Johnny Kellock Died Today |
| 2006 | Pamela Porter | The Crazy Man |
| 2005 | Anne Laurel Carter | Last Chance Bay |
| 2004 | Brian Doyle | Boy O'Boy |
| 2003 | Karen Levine | Hana's Suitcase |
| 2002 | Jean Little | Orphan at my Door: the Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope |
| 2001 | Nan Gregory | Wild girl & gran |
| 2000 | Kenneth Oppel | Sunwing |
| 1999 | Tim Wynne-Jones | Stephen Fair |
| 1998 | Kenneth Oppel | Silverwing |
| 1997 | Brian Doyle | Uncle Ronald |
| 1996 | Maxine Trottier | The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing |
| 1995 | Cora Taylor | Summer of the Mad Monk |
| 1994 | Tim Wynne-Jones | Some of the Kinder Planets |
| 1993 | Celia Barker Lottridge | Ticket to Curlew |
| 1992 | Kevin Major | Eating Between the Lines |
| 1991 | Michael Bedard | Redwork |
| 1990 | Kit Pearson | The Sky is Falling |
| 1989 | Brian Doyle | Easy Avenue |
| 1988 | Kit Pearson | A Handful of Time |
| 1987 | Janet Lunn | Shadow in Hawthorn Bay |
| 1986 | Cora Taylor | Julie |
| 1985 | Jean Little | Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird |
| 1984 | Jan Hudson | Sweetgrass |
| 1983 | Brian Doyle | Up to Low |
| 1982 | Janet Lunn | The Root Cellar |
| 1981 | Donn Kushner | The Violin-Maker's Gift |
| 1980 | James Houston | River Runners |
| 1979 | Kevin Major | Hold Fast |
| 1978 | Dennis Lee | Garbage Delight |
| 1977 | Christie Harris | Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses |
| 1976 | Mordecai Richler | Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang |
| 1975 | Dennis Lee | Alligator Pie |
| 1974 | Elizabeth Cleaver | The Miraculous Hind |
| 1973 | Ruth Nichols | The Marrow of the World |
| 1972 | Ann Blades | Mary of Mile 18 |
| 1971 | William Toye | Cartier Discovers the St. Lawrence |
| 1970 | Edith Fowke | Sally Go Round the Sun |
| 1969 | Kay Hill | And Tomorrow the Stars |
| 1968 | James Houston | The White Archer: an Eskimo Legend |
| 1967 | Christie Harris | Raven's Cry |
| 1966 | James McNeill James Houston |
The Double Knights: More Tales from Round the World Tikta'liktak: an Eskimo Legend |
| 1965 | Dorothy M. Reid | Tales of Nanabozho |
| 1964 | Roderick Haig-Brown | The Whale People |
| 1963 | Sheila Burnford | The Incredible Journey |
| 1962 | No Award | |
| 1961 | William Toye | The St. Lawrence |
| 1960 | Maruis Barbeau and Michael Hornyansky | The Golden Phoenix and Other Fairy Tales from Quebec |
| 1959 | John F. Hayes | The Dangerous Cove |
| 1958 | Farley Mowat | Lost in the Barrens |
| 1957 | Cyrus Macmillan | Glooscap's Country and Other Indian Tales |
| 1956 | Louise Riley | Train for Tiger Lily |
| 1955 | No Award | |
| 1954 | No Award | |
| 1953 | No Award | |
| 1952 | Catherine Anthony Clark | The Sun Horse |
| 1951 | No Award | |
| 1950 | Richard S. Lambert | Franklin of the Arctic |
| 1949 | No Award | |
| 1948 | Mabel Dunham | Kristli's Trees |
| 1947 | Roderick Haig-Brown | Starbuck Valley Winter |
