Since 1981 the Alcuin Society has sponsored the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. It is the only national competition that recognizes and celebrates fine book design in Canada. Each year, publishers submit books to a panel of expert judges, who give the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. The competition includes a children’s category as listed below
Award Recipients
2009 -CHILDREN
First prize: ROBERT CHAPLIN and SIAN PAIRAUDEAU, designers of Brussels Sprouts & Unicorns: a Book of Rhymes by Robert Chaplin (Robert Chaplin)
Second prize: ELISA GUTIÉRREZ, designer of The Kalevala: Tales of Magic and Adventure by Kirsti Mäkinen, translated by Kaarina Brooks (Simply Read Books)
Third prize: GRACE PARTRIDGE, designer of Ella's Umbrellas by Jennifer Lloyd (Simply Read Books)
Honourable mentions: MICHAEL SOLOMON, designer both of Alego by Ningeokuluk Teevee (Groundwood Books) and of City Alphabet by Joanne Schwartz (Groundwood Books).
| 2008 | Children's Category | TERESA BUBELA & VLADYANA KRYKORKA, The Littlest Sled Dog, Orca Book Publishers |
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| 2007 | Children's Category | Chris Tougas Mechanimals. Victoria: Orca Book Publishers, 2007. |
| 2006 | Children's Category | Sara O’Leary When You Were Small. Illustrated by Julie Morstad. Vancouver: Simply Read Books, 2006. |
| 2005 | Children's Category | Kenyon Cox Mixed Beasts. Illustrated by Wallace Edwards. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2005. |
| 2004 | Children's Category | Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky. Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2004. |
| 2003 | Children's Category | Elaine Arsenault Le grand rêve de Passepoil. Illustrated by Fanny. Saint-Lambert, QC: Dominique et compagnie, 2003. |
| 2002 | Children's Category | Marie-Danielle Croteau Un gnome à la mer. Illustrated by Rogé. Saint-Lambert, QC: Dominique et compagnie, 2002. |
| 2001 | Children's Category | Zoran Milich The City ABC Book. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2001. |
| 1999 | Children's Category | Gary Barwin The Magic Mustache. Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch. Toronto: Annick Press, 1999. |
| 1998 | Children's Category | Elizabeth MacLeod I Heard a Little Baa. Illustrated by Louise Phillips. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1998. |
| 1997 | Children's Category | Linda Granfield Silent Night: The Song from Heaven. Illustrated by Nelly and Ernst Hofer. Toronto: Tundra Books, 1997. |
| 1996 | Children's Category | Gita Wolf (adapter) The Very Hungry Lion, a Folktale. Illustrated by Indrapramit Roy. Toronto: Annick Press, 1996. |
| 1995 | Children's Category | Aubrey Davis Bone Button Borscht. Illustrated by Dušan Petri?i?. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995. |
| 1994 | Children's Category | Jim McGugan Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story. Illustrated by Murray Kimber. |
| 1993 | Children's Category | Berney Lucas Brewster Rooster. Illustrated by Russ Willms. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1993. |
| 1992 | Children's Category | Robin Muller Hickory, Dickory, Dock. Illustrated by Suzanne Duranceau. Richmond Hill, ON: North Winds Press, 1992. |
| 1991 | Children's Category | Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Eriksson The Anne of Green Gables Treasury. Toronto: Viking-Penguin Books, 1991. |
| 1990 | Children's Category | Marianne Brandis The Sign of the Scales. Wood Carvings by G. Brender à Brandis. Erin, ON: Porcupine’s Quill, 1990. |
| 1989 | Children's Category | Stefan Czernecki and Timothy Rhodes The Time Before Dreams. Illustrated by Stefan Czernecki. Winnipeg: Hyperion Press, 1989. |
| 1988 | Children's Category | Jan Thornhill The Wildlife ABC: A Nature Alphabet. Toronto: Greey de Pencier, 1988. |
| 1986 | Children's Category | David Peacock The Sea Serpent of Grenadier Pond. Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1986. |
| 1985 | Children's Category | Robin Muller Sorceror’s Apprentice. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1985. |
| 1984 | Children's Category |
