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	Programs_AP&A_Vicky Metcalf

The Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Sponsored by the Metcalf Foundation
Winner: $20,000

The Vicky Metcalf Award for Children’s Literature is awarded to the author of a body of work in children's literature that, in the opinion of the judges, demonstrates the highest literary standards.

2009 Recipient
Marthe Jocelyn is the author of several award-winning novels and has also written and illustrated picture books. Her novels for include How It Happened in Peach Hill , Mable Riley, Would You, and Folly. She has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Norma Fleck Award, and the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children. She lives in Stratford, Ontario and can be visited at marthejocelyn.com.

Read the jury's citation

Previous Recipients

2009 Marthe Jocelyn
2008 Michael Kusugak
2007 Martha Brooks
2006 Kenneth Oppel
2005 Marie-Louise Gay
2004 Deborah Ellis
2003 Roslyn Schwartz
2002 Julie Johnston
2001 Linda Granfield
2000 Sheree Fitch
1999 Joan Clark
1998 Kit Pearson
1997 Tim Wynne-Jones
1996 Margaret Buffie
1995 Sarah Ellis
1994 Welwyn Wilton Katz
1993 Phoebe Gilman
1992 Kevin Major
1991 Brian Doyle
1990 Bernice Thurman Hunter
1989 Stephane Poulin
1988 Barbara Smucker
1987 Robert Munsch
1986 Dennis Lee
1985 Edith Fowke

1984 Bill Freeman
1983 Claire Mackay
1982 Janet Lunn
1981 Monica Hughes
1980 John Craig
1979 Cliff Faulknor
1978 Lyn Cook
1977 James Houston
1976 Suzanne Martel
1975 Lyn Harrington
1974 Jean Little
1973 Christie Harris
1972 William E. Toye
1971 Kay Hill
1970 Farley Mowat
1969 Audrey McKim
1968 Lorrie McLaughlin
1967 John Patrick Gillese
1966 Fred Swayze
1965 Roderick Haig-Brown
1964 John F. Hayes
1963 Kerry Wood

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