Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature

This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for children's literature. An award for juvenile literature existed from 1949 to 1958, and the current award was created in 1987.

Juvenile fiction

• 1949: R.S. Lambert, Franklin of the Arctic
• 1950: Donald Dickie, The Great Adventure
• 1951: John F. Hayes (writer), A Land Divided
• 1952: Marie McPhedran, Cargoes on the Great Lakes
• 1953: John F. Hayes (writer), Rebels Ride at Night
• 1954: Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, The Nor'westers
• 1955: Kerry Wood, The Map-Maker
• 1956: Farley Mowat, Lost in the Barrens
• 1957: Kerry Wood, The Great Chief
• 1958: Edith L. Sharp, Nkwala

Children's literature

1980s

• 1987: Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army
• 1988: Welwyn Wilton Katz, The Third Magic
• 1989: Diana Wieler, Bad Boy

1990s

• 1990: Michael Bedard, Redwork
• 1991: Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks
• 1992: Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes
• 1993: Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets
• 1994: Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
• 1995: Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro
• 1996: Paul Yee, Ghost Train
• 1997: Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming
• 1998: Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree
• 1999: Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day

2000s

• 2000: Deborah Ellis, Looking for X
• 2001: Arthur Slade, Dust
• 2002: Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
• 2003: Glen Huser, Stitches
• 2004: Kenneth Oppel, Airborn
• 2005: Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man
• 2006: William Gilkerson, Pirate's Passage
• 2007: Iain Lawrence, Gemini Summer
• 2008: John Ibbitson, The Landing
• 2009: Caroline Pignat, Greener Grass: The Famine Years

2010s

• 2010: Wendy Phillips, Fishtailing
• 2011: Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World