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Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books
Small in the City
Sydney Smith
They Say Blue
Jillian Tamaki
When We Were Alone
David Alexander Robertson and Julie Flett
Sidewalk Flowers
JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith
The Great Poochini
Gary Clement
A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
Kady MacDonald Denton
The Rooster’s Gift
Eric Beddows
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh
Ludmila Zeman
Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story
Murray Kimber
Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming
Mireille Levert
Waiting for the Whales
Ron Lightburn
Doctor Kiss Says Yes
Joanne Fitzgerald
The Orphan Boy
Paul Morin
The Magic Paintbrush
Robin Muller
Amos’s Sweater
Kim LaFave
Rainy Day Magic
Marie-Louise Gay
Stand on the Sky
Erin Bow
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster
Jonathan Auxier
The Gospel Truth
Caroline Pignat
When Everything Feels like the Movies
Raziel Reid
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
Teresa Toten
From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
Christopher Moore
Fishtailing
Wendy Phillips
Greener Grass: The Famine Years
Caroline Pignat
The Landing
John Ibbitson
Gemini Summer
Iain Lawrence
Pirate’s Passage
William Gilkerson
The Crazy Man
Pamela Porter
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Martha Brooks
Looking for X
Deborah Ellis
A Screaming Kind of Day
Rachna Gilmore
The Hollow Tree
Janet Lunn
Awake and Dreaming
Kit Pearson
The Maestro
Tim Wynne-Jones
Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
Julie Johnston
Some of the Kinder Planets
Tim Wynne-Jones
Hero of Lesser Causes
Julie Johnston
Pick-Up Sticks
Sarah Ellis
The Third Magic
Welwyn Wilton Katz
Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army
Morgan Nyberg