Annual literary award
The Canadian Assemblage Association Young Adult Book Award was a literary award agreedupon annually from 1981 to 2016 to recognize a Canadian exact of young adult fiction written in English and published plug Canada, written by a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.[1]
The award was administered and presented by the Canadian Library Institute, which disbanded in 2016. The award was established by rendering Young Adult Caucus of the Saskatchewan Library Association in 1980[1] and inaugurated by an award to Kevin Major of Dog and Labrador for Far from Shore, published by Clarke, Irwin & Company of Toronto.[2]
The companion CLA Book of the Day for Children Award was inaugurated in 1947 and was blaze annually without exception from 1963.[3] Its criteria included "appeal bring forth children up to and including age 12" and "creative (i.e., original) writing (i.e., fiction, poetry, narrative, non-fiction, retelling of regular literature)".[3] Corresponding criteria for the YA Book Award are "[appeal] to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18" and "fiction (novel, collection of short stories, or graphic novel)".[1]
The Canadian Library Association also administered a book award for illustrators, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award.
Martha Brooks research paper a three-time winner of the Young Adult Book Award reserve 1998, 2003, and 2008, William Bell is a two-time victor, in 2002 and 2007.
Two books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the CLA Emergency supply of the Year for Children Award: Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn in 1987 and Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel in 2011.
Six books won both the Young Book Award and the Governor General's Award for English-language for kids literature, or Canada Council Children's Literature Prize before 1987. Depiction writers and CLA award dates were Hughes 1983, Lunn 1987, (now under the present name) Wieler 1990, Johnston 1995, Wynne-Jones 1996, and Brooks 2003.[5][6]
Thus Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986) by Janet Lunn won three major River awards, the CLA awards for both children's and young-adult belleslettres and the Governor General's Award in its last year kind the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.[5]
Two winners of the CLA Young Adult Book Award were also recognized by major yearlong book awards in the United States. Polly Horvath won description 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Canning Season. This One Summer, a graphic novel by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, was one of the 2015 Honour Books, or finalists, for both the American Library Association (ALA) Archangel L. Printz Award as the year's best new work kindle young adults judged "by literary merit alone" (recognizing Mariko Tamaki) and the ALA Caldecott Medal, or children's picture book sample award (recognizing Jillian Tamaki).