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The Nova Scotia Library Association presents Ann Conner Brimer Book Award during Canadian Children's Book Week in November to recognize excellence in writing. The $1000 prize is given to the author of a children's book which has made an outstanding contribution to children's literature in Atlantic Canada. The winning author must be alive and residing in Atlantic Canada at time of nomination.

Award Recipients

		Winners 1991 to present
2008		K.V. Johansen Nightwalker: The Warlocks of Talverdin. Victoria: Orca Book Publishers, 2007.
2007		Budge Wilson Friendships. Toronto: Penguin Group (Canada), 2006.
2006		Kevin Major Aunt Olga’s Christmas Postcards. Illustrated by Bruce Roberts. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2005.
2005		Alice Walsh Pomiuk, Prince of the North. Illustrated by Jerry Whitehead. Vancouver: Beach Holme Publishing, 2004.
2004		Don Aker The First Stone. Toronto: HarperTrophy Canada, 2003.
2003		Lesley Choyce Shoulder the Sky. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2002.
2002		Frances Wolfe Where I Live. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2001.
2001		Janet McNaughton The Secret Under My Skin. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.
2000		David Weale The True Meaning of Crumbfest. Charlottetown: The Acorn Press, 1999.
1999		Janet McNaughton Make or Break Spring. St. John's: Tuckamore Books, 1998.
1998		Kevin Major The House of Wooden Santas. Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1997.
1997		Janet McNaughton To Dance at the Palais Royale. St. John’s: Tuckamore Books, 1996.
1996		Don Aker Of Things Not Seen. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1995.
1995		Sheree Fitch Mabel Murple. Illustrated by Maryann Kovalski. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1995.
1994		Lesley Choyce Good Idea Gone Bad. Halifax: Formac Publishing, 1993.
1993		Budge Wilson Oliver's Wars. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1992.
1992		Kevin Major Eating Between The Lines. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1991.
1991		Joyce Barkhouse Pit Pony. Toronto: Gage Educational Publishers, 1990.