Ann Connor Brimer Award
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The Ann Connor Brimer Book Award is a $2000 prize given each year to an Atlantic Canadian writer deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to children's literature. The award is named for Ann Elizabeth Connor Brimer -- a Nova Scotia teacher, executive director of the Canadian Learning Materials Centre, a research associate with the Atlantic Institute of Education, a program coordinator in continuing education at Dalhousie University, a founding member of the Nova Scotia Coalition on Arts and Culture, and Atlantic officer of the Canadian Children's Centre -- and is sponsored by the Nova Scotia Library Association.
Winners
- 2011 - Valerie SherrardValerie SherrardValerie Sherrard is a Canadian author of books for children and young adults including the multi award winning novel The Glory Wind, Kate, Speechless, and the Shelby Belgarden mystery series....
- The Glory Wind - 2010 - Jill MacLean - The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy
- 2009 - Jill MacLean - The Nine Lives of Travis Keating
- 2008 - K.V. Johansen - Nightwalker
- 2007 - Budge WilsonBudge WilsonBudge Wilson is a highly acclaimed Canadian author who was born and raised in Nova Scotia. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology...
- Friendships - 2006 - Kevin MajorKevin MajorKevin Major is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife and two teenage sons. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays....
- Aunt Olga’s Christmas Postcards - 2005 - Alice Walsh, Pomiuk, Prince of the North
- 2004 - Don Aker, The First Stone
- 2003 - Lesley ChoyceLesley ChoyceLesley Choyce is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry.Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey, he was educated at Rutgers University, CUNY, and Montclair State University...
, Shoulder the Sky - 2002 - Francis Wolfe, Where I Live
- 2001 - Janet McNaughton, The Secret Under My Skin
- 2000 - David Weale, The True Meaning of Crumbfest
- 1999 - Janet McNaughton, Make or Break Spring
- 1998 - Kevin MajorKevin MajorKevin Major is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife and two teenage sons. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays....
, The House of Wooden Santas - 1997 - Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale
- 1996 - Don Aker, Of Things Not Seen
- 1995 - Sheree FitchSheree FitchSheree Fitch is a Canadian children's author. Though she was born in Ottawa, Ontario and grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick, she spent many of her adult years in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She earned a B.A. from Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick and an M.A. from Acadia University,...
, Mabel Murple - 1994 - Lesley ChoyceLesley ChoyceLesley Choyce is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry.Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey, he was educated at Rutgers University, CUNY, and Montclair State University...
, Good Idea Gone Bad - 1993 - Budge WilsonBudge WilsonBudge Wilson is a highly acclaimed Canadian author who was born and raised in Nova Scotia. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology...
, Oliver's War - 1992 - Kevin MajorKevin MajorKevin Major is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife and two teenage sons. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays....
, Eating Between the Lines - 1991 - Joyce BarkhouseJoyce BarkhouseJoyce Carman Barkhouse, is a Canadian children's writer best known for writing historical fiction.-Education and family life:...
, Pit Pony