# Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award is an annual Canadian literary award, presented to the year's best illustrated picture book for children. Sponsored by A. Charles Baillie and administered by the Canadian Children's Book Centre, the award carries a monetary prize of $20,000. The award is named in honour of Marilyn Baillie, a children's book author and early childhood educator who is married to former TD Bank chairman A. Charles Baillie.
The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.

## Winners and nominees

Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Illustrator | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Marie-Louise Gay | Marie-Louise Gay | Caramba! | Winner |
| 2006 | Nicola I. Campbell | Kim LaFave | Shi-shi-etko | Finalist |
| 2006 | Sharon Jennings | Mélanie Watt | Bearcub and Mama | Finalist |
| 2006 | Connie Kaldor and Carmen Campagne | Brian Deines | Lullaby Berceuse: A Warm Prairie Night | Finalist |
| 2006 | Mireille Levert | Mireille Levert | Eddie Longpants | Finalist |
| 2007 | Sara O'Leary | Julie Morstad | When You Were Small | Winner |
| 2007 | Catherine Jameson | Julie Flett | Zoe and the Fawn | Finalist |
| 2007 | Barbara Reid | Barbara Reid | Fox Walked Alone | Finalist |
| 2007 | Ellen Schwartz | Sima Elizabeth Shefrin | Abby's Birds | Finalist |
| 2007 | Mélanie Watt | Mélanie Watt | Augustine | Finalist |
| 2007 | Mélanie Watt | Mélanie Watt | Scaredy Squirrel | Finalist |
| 2008 | Frieda Wishinsky | Marie-Louise Gay | Please, Louise! | Winner |
| 2008 | Barroux , Jane MacAulay (trans.) | Barroux | Super Handyman: The Master of Tools | Finalist |
| 2008 | Nan Gregory | Luc Melanson | Pink | Finalist |
| 2008 | Robert Heidbreder | Dušan Petričić | Lickety-Split | Finalist |
| 2009 | Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert | Dušan Petričić | Mattland | Winner |
| 2009 | Nicola I. Campbell | Kim LaFave | Shin-chi's Canoe | Finalist |
| 2009 | Cary Fagan | Nicolas Debon | Thing-Thing | Finalist |
| 2009 | Pamela Hickman | Geraldo Valério | It's Moving Day! | Finalist |
| 2009 | Ruth Ohi | Ruth Ohi | Chicken, Pig, Cow | Finalist |
| 2010 | Colleen Sydor | Nicolas Debon | Timmerman Was Here | Winner |
| 2010 | Geneviève Côté | Geneviève Côté | Me and You | Finalist |
| 2010 | Janet Perlman | Janet Perlman | The Delicious Bug | Finalist |
| 2010 | Joanne Schwartz | Laura Beingessner | Our Corner Grocery Store | Finalist |
| 2010 | Frieda Wishinsky | Kady MacDonald Denton | You're Mean, Lily Jean | Finalist |
| 2011 | Laurel Croza | Matt James | I Know Here | Winner |
| 2011 | Linda Bailey | Bill Slavin | Stanley's Little Sister | Finalist |
| 2011 | Marianne Dubuc, Yvette Ghione (trans.) | Marianne Dubuc | In Front of My House | Finalist |
| 2011 | Kyo Maclear | Isabelle Arsenault | Spork | Finalist |
| 2011 | Caroline Woodward | Julie Morstad | Singing Away the Dark | Finalist |
| 2012 | Geneviève Côté | Geneviève Côté | Without You | Winner |
| 2012 | Dan Bar-el | Rae Maté | Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been? | Finalist |
| 2012 | Barbara Reid | Barbara Reid | Picture a Tree | Finalist |
| 2012 | Ashley Spires | Ashley Spires | Small Saul | Finalist |
| 2012 | Nicola Winstanley | Janice Nadeau | Cinnamon Baby | Finalist |
| 2013 | Cary Fagan | Dušan Petričić | Mr. Zinger's Hat | Winner |
| 2013 | Geneviève Côté | Geneviève Côté | Mr. King's Things | Finalist |
| 2013 | Wallace Edwards | Wallace Edwards | Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jennifer Lanthier | François Thisdale | The Stamp Collector | Finalist |
| 2013 | Kyo Maclear | Isabelle Arsenault | Virginia Wolf | Finalist |
| 2014 | Julie Morstad | Julie Morstad | How To | Winner |
| 2014 | Marthe Jocelyn and Nell Jocelyn | Marthe Jocelyn and Nell Jocelyn | Where Do You Look? | Finalist |
| 2014 | Ruth Ohi | Ruth Ohi | Fox and Squirrel | Finalist |
| 2014 | Kathy Stinson | Dušan Petričić | The Man with the Violin | Finalist |
| 2014 | Eric Walters | Eugenie Fernandes | My Name Is Blessing | Finalist |
| 2015 | Cybèle Young | Cybèle Young | Nancy Knows | Winner |
| 2015 | Christine Baldacchino | Isabelle Malenfant | Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress | Finalist |
| 2015 | Laurel Croza | Matt James | From There to Here | Finalist |
| 2015 | Roy Miki and Slavia Miki | Julie Flett | Dolphin SOS | Finalist |
| 2015 | Ashley Spires | Ashley Spires | The Most Magnificent Thing | Finalist |
| 2015 | Eric Walters | Eugenie Fernandes | Hope Springs | Finalist |
| 2016 | Danielle Daniel | Danielle Daniel | Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox | Winner |
| 2016 | Willow Dawson | Willow Dawson | The Wolf-Birds | Finalist |
| 2016 | Maureen Fergus | Dušan Petričić | InvisiBill | Finalist |
| 2016 | Alma Fullerton | Brian Deines | In a Cloud of Dust | Finalist |
| 2016 | JonArno Lawson | Sydney Smith | Sidewalk Flowers | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jennifer McGrath | Josée Bisaillon | The Snow Knows | Winner |
| 2017 | Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer | Gillian Newland | I Am Not a Number | Finalist |
| 2017 | Chris Hadfield and Kate Fillion | The Fan Brothers | The Darkest Dark | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jon Klassen | Jon Klassen | We Found a Hat | Finalist |
| 2017 | Shane Peacock | Sophie Casson | The Artist and Me | Finalist |
| 2018 | Paul Harbridge | Matt James | When the Moon Comes | Winner |
| 2018 | Suzanne Del Rizzo | Suzanne Del Rizzo | My Beautiful Birds | Finalist |
| 2018 | Cary Fagan | Madeline Kloepper | Little Blue Chair | Finalist |
| 2018 | Melanie Florence | Gabrielle Grimard | Stolen Words | Finalist |
| 2018 | Monique Gray Smith | Danielle Daniel | You Hold Me Up | Finalist |
| 2018 | Debbie Ridpath Ohi | Debbie Ridpath Ohi | Sam & Eva | Finalist |
| 2019 | Shauntay Grant | Eva Campbell | Africville | Winner |
| 2019 | Marie-Louise Gay | Marie-Louise Gay | Mustafa | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jami Gigot | Jami Gigot | Seb and the Sun | Finalist |
| 2019 | Matt James | Matt James | The Funeral | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jillian Tamaki | Jillian Tamaki | They Say Blue | Finalist |
| 2020 | Sydney Smith | Sydney Smith | Small in the City | Winner |
| 2020 | Saumiya Balasubramaniam | Qin Leng | When I Found Grandma | Finalist |
| 2020 | Cary Fagan | Dena Seiferling | King Mouse | Finalist |
| 2020 | Julie Flett | Julie Flett | Birdsong | Finalist |
| 2020 | James Gladstone | Gary Clement | My Winter City | Finalist |
| 2020 | Heather Smith | Rachel Wada | The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota’s Garden | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jillian Tamaki | Jillian Tamaki | Our Little Kitchen | Winner |
| 2021 | Suzanne Del Rizzo | Miki Sato | Golden Threads | Finalist |
| 2021 | The Fan Brothers | The Fan Brothers | The Barnabus Project | Finalist |
| 2021 | Naseem Hrab | Frank Viva | Weekend Dad | Finalist |
| 2021 | Rebecca Thomas | Maya McKibbin | Swift Fox All Along | Finalist |
| 2022 | Julie Morstad | Julie Morstad | Time is a Flower | Winner |
| 2022 | Julie Flett | Julie Flett | We All Play/Kimêtawânaw | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bill Richardson | Bill Pechet | Hare B&B | Finalist |
| 2022 | David A. Robertson | Julie Flett | On the Trapline | Finalist |
| 2022 | Gracey Zhang | Gracey Zhang | Lala's Words | Finalist |
| 2023 | Matthew Forsythe | Matthew Forsythe | Mina | Winner |
| 2023 | Mariam Körner | Mariam Körner | Fox and Bear | Finalist |
| 2023 | Marie-Louise Gay | Marie-Louise Gay | I'm Not Sydney! | Finalist |
| 2023 | Nancy Vo | Nancy Vo | Boobies | Finalist |
| 2023 | The Fan Brothers | The Fan Brothers | Lizzy and the Cloud | Finalist |
| 2024 | Jack Wong | Jack Wong | When You Can Swim | Winner |
| 2024 | Lucy Ruth Cummins | Lucy Ruth Cummins | Our Pool | Finalist |
| 2024 | Judith Henderson | Nahid Kazemi | Love Is in the Bear | Finalist |
| 2024 | Jean E. Pendziwol | Todd Stewart | Skating Wild on an Inland Sea | Finalist |
| 2024 | Kathy Stinson | Lauren Soloy | A Tulip in Winter: A Story About Folk Artist Maud Lewis | Finalist |