City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

City of Victoria Children's Book Prize

2024 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

Anecdotes

Kathryn Mockler

Book*Hug Press

2024

2024 City of Victoria Children's Book Prize

Breaking News:
Why Media Matters

Raina Delisle

Orca Book Publishers

2024

2023 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

Confessions with Keith

Pauline Holdstock

Biblioasis

2023

Confessions with Keith
2023 City of Victoria Children's Book Prize

Little Pine Cone: Wildfires and the Natural World

Julie McLaughlin (for illustration)

Orca Book Publishers

2023

2022 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

Out of the Sun

Esi Edugyan

House of Anansi

2022

2022 City of Victoria Children's Book Prize

Aggie & Mudgy: The Journey of Two Kaska Dena Children

Wendy Proverbs

Heritage House

2022

Following the Good River, The LIfe and Times of Wa’xaid

Briony Penn

Rocky Mountain Books

2021

Elvis, Me and the Lemonade Stand Summer

Leslie Gentile

Cormorant Books

2021

The House That Spirit Built

Lorna Crozier

Douglas & McIntyre

2020

Orcas Everywhere: The Mystery and History of Killer Whales

Mark Leiren-Young

Orca Book Publishers

2020

Dear Evelyn

Kathy Page

Biblioasis

2019

Sterling, Best Dog Ever

Aidan Cassie

Farrar Straus Giroux

2019

A Mariner’s Guide to Self Sabotage

Bill Gaston

Douglas & McIntyre

2018

Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation 

Monique Gray Smith

Orca Book Publishers

2018

Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains

Yasuko Thanh

Hamish Hamilton Canada

2017

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey

Margriet Ruurs

Orca Book Publishers

2017

The Hunter and the Wild Girl

Pauline Holdstock

Gooselane Editions

2016

In the Swish

Dawn Green 

Red Deer Press

2016

The Pull of the Moon

Julie Paul

Brindle & Glass Publishing

2015

Dojo Daycare

Chris Tougas

OwlKids

2015

The World Afloat

M.A.C. Farrant

Talonbooks

2014

Pterosaur Trouble

Daniel Loxton

KidsCan

2014

A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden

Stephen Reid

Thistledown Press

2013

One Year in Coal Harbour

Polly Horvath

Groundwood

2013

Afflictions & Departures

Madeline Stonik

Anvil Press

2012

Nowhere Else on Earth, Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest

Caitlyn Vernon

Orca Book Publishers

2012

The Master of Happy Endings

Jack Hodgins

Thomas Allen & Son

2011

Uirapuru

Kristi Bridgeman (for illustration)

Oolichan

2011

Children of the Klondike

Frances Backhouse

Whitecap Books

2010

Children of the Klondike

Frances Backhouse

Whitecap Books

2010

Red Dog Red Dog

Patrick Lane

McClelland & Stewart

2009

Graveyard of the Sea

Penny Draper

Coteau

2009

Paper Trail

Arlene Pare

NeWest Press

2008

Mechanimals

Chris Tougas

Orca Book Publishers

2008

Gargoyles

Bill Gaston

House of Anansi Press

2007

Holding Juno

Mark Zuehlke

Douglas & McIntyre

2006

After Goodlake’s

Terence Young

Raincoast Books

2005

Country of Cold

Kevin Patterson

Vintage Canada

2004