The Municipal Chapter of Toronto IODE Book Award is presented annually to a Toronto-area
author and/or illustrator of a Canadian published children's book.
Some of the authors and illustrators who have won in the past few years include:
Dennis Lee: Alligator Pie
William Kurelek: A Prairie Boy's Summer
Aviva Layton: How the Kookaburra Got His Laugh
William Toye: The Lion's Necklace
Laszlo Gal: Why the Main in the Moon is Happy; My Name is Not Odessa Yarker; The Shirt of the Happy Man
Janet Lunn: The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Olena Kassian: Afraid of the Dark; The Hungry Time
Bernice Thurman Hunter: That Scatterbrain Booky
Kathy Stinson: Red is Best
Tim Wynne-Jones: Zoom at Sea
Ian Wallace: Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance
Robin Muller: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Barbara Reid: Have You Seen Birds?
Caroline Parry: Let's Celebrate!
Eric Beddows: Night Cars
Brenda Clark: Little Fingering
David Booth: Voices on the Wind
Michael Bedard and Regolo Ricci: The Nightingale
Janet Lunn, Christopher Moore, and Alan Daniel: The Story of Canada
Ceclia Barker Lottridge: Ten Small Tales
Joanne Findon and Ted Nasmith: The Dream of Aengus
1995 Linda Granfield and Janel Wilson: *In Flanders Fields
1996 David Book and Karen Reczuch: *The Dust Bowl
1997 Ian Wallace:*A Winter's Tale
1998 Marilyn Helmer & Paul Mombourquette: *Fog Cat
1999 Michael Bedard & Les Tait: *The Clay Ladies
2000 Stephen Strauss & Matthew Fernandes: *How Big is Big?
2001 Vlasta van Kampen: *A Drop of Gold
2002 Marie Day: *Edward the "Crazy Man"
2003 Aubrey Davis: *Bagels from Benny
The books with an * indicate the ones which have been presented by the Dr. Innis Mary MacDonald Chapter to the local libraries, schools and to our adopted classes.