2016 Governor General's Literary Awards: Winners announced

The Governor General's Literary Awards are Canada's national book awards, honouring the best of our literature in seven categories, in both official languages.  On October 25, 2016, the winners of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Awards, English and French, were announced on the Canada Council website.

Congratulations to the winners of the Children's Literature: Text and Children's Literature: Illustration awards, for both English and French:

English Children’s Literature: Text

Martine Leavitt

for

Calvin

Groundwood Books

Reviewed here

English Children’s Literature: Illustration 

Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka

for

Tokyo Digs a Garden

Groundwood Books

Reviewed here

French Children's Literature: Text 

François Gilbert

par

Hare Krishna

Leméac Éditeur

French Children's Literature: Illustration

Stéphanie Lapointe et Rogé

par

Grand-père et la Lune

Les Éditions XYZ