# Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize

The Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for Canadian authors and illustrator of picture books, picture story books, and illustrated non-fiction books. The prize is shared by the author and the illustrator, who must be a resident of British Columbia or Yukon. It was announced in 2002 and first awarded in 2003. A handful of finalists (roughly 25%) are also selected for another award: participation in the expenses-paid BC Book Prizes on Tour, a week-long tour across the province to present their books at schools and libraries each April.

## History

The prize was announced three months after the death of Christie Harris, and was the first new BC Book Prize category since the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize was introduced in 1987.

## Winners and finalists

| Year | Author(s) | Illustrator(s) | Title | Result |
| 2003 | Annette LeBox | Karen Reczuch | Salmon Creek | Winner |
| 2003 | Maggie De Vries | Sheena Lott | How Sleep Found Tabitha | Finalist |
| 2003 | Nan Gregory | Kady MacDonald Denton | Amber Waiting | Finalist |
| 2003 | Julie Lawson | Paul Mombourquette | The Klondike Cat | Finalist |
| 2003 | Andrea Spalding | Janet Wilson | Solomon's Tree | Finalist |
| 2004 | Linda Bailey | Bill Slavin | Stanley's Party | Winner |
| 2004 | Linda Bailey | Bill Slavin | Adventures in Ancient China | Finalist |
| 2004 | Julie Lawson | Kasia Charko | Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid | Finalist |
| 2004 | Robin Mitchell and Judith Steedman | Robin Mitchell | Sunny | Finalist |
| 2004 | Chieri Uegaki | Stéphane Jorisch | Suki's Kimono | Finalist |
| 2005 | Marilynn Reynolds | Renné Benoit | Goodbye to Griffith Street | Winner |
| 2005 | Stefan Czernecki | Stefan Czernecki | Ride 'em Cowboy | Finalist |
| 2005 | Earl Einarson | Julie Flett | The Moccasins | Finalist |
| 2005 | Adrienne Mason | Nancy Gray Ogle | Owls | Finalist |
| 2005 | Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer | Kirsti Anne Wakelin | When They Are Up | Finalist |
| 2006 | Tanya Lloyd Kyi | | The Blue Jean Book: The Story Behind the Seams | Winner |
| 2006 | Carol Foskett Cordsen | Douglas B. Jones | The Milkman | Finalist |
| 2006 | Elisa Gutiérrez | Elisa Gutiérrez | Picturescape | Finalist |
| 2006 | Diane Silvey | John Manth | The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada | Finalist |
| 2006 | Paul Yee | Shaoli Wang | Bamboo | Finalist |
| 2007 | Maggie De Vries | Renné Benoit | Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story | Winner |
| 2007 | Sarah Ellis | Dušan Petričić | The Queen's Feet | Finalist |
| 2007 | Deborah Hodge | John Mantha | The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration | Finalist |
| 2007 | Catherine Jameson | Julie Flett | Zoe and the Fawn | Finalist |
| 2007 | Ellen Schwartz | Sima Elizabeth Shefrin | Abby's Birds | Finalist |
| 2008 | Robert Heidbreder | Kady MacDonald Denton | A Sea-Wishing Day | Winner |
| 2008 | Lisa Cinar | Lisa Cinar | The Day It All Blew Away | Finalist |
| 2008 | Nan Gregory | Luc Melanson | Pink | Finalist |
| 2008 | Ron Smith | Ruth Campbell | Elf the Eagle | Finalist |
| 2008 | Kari-Lynn Winters | Ben Hodson | Jeffrey and Sloth | Finalist |
| 2009 | Katarina Jovanovic | Philippe Beha | The King Has Goat Ears | Winner |
| 2009 | Linda Bailey | Bill Slavin | Stanley At Sea | Finalist |
| 2009 | Robert Bateman | Robert Bateman | Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth | Finalist |
| 2009 | Chieri Uegaki | Stéphane Jorisch | Rosie and Buttercup | Finalist |
| 2009 | Irene N. Watts | Kathryn E. Shoemaker | Good-bye Marianne | Finalist |
| 2010 | Frieda Wishinsky | Dean Griffiths | Maggie Can't Wait | Winner |
| 2010 | Robert Bateman | Robert Bateman | Vanishing Habitats | Finalist |
| 2010 | Fiona Bayrock | Carolyn Conahan | Bubble Homes and Fish Farts | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jennifer Lloyd | Ashley Spires | Ella's Umbrellas | Finalist |
| 2010 | Kari-Lynn Winters | Christina Leist | On My Walk | Finalist |
| 2011 | Julie Flett | Julie Flett | Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet | Winner |
| 2011 | Maggie De Vries | Renné Benoit | Fraser Bear: A Cub's Life | Finalist |
| 2011 | Seiji Hiroe | Seiji Hiroe | The Cowboy Fisherman | Finalist |
| 2011 | Deborah Hodge | Brian Harris | Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm | Finalist |
| 2011 | Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read | Ian McAllister | The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest | Finalist |
| 2012 | Sara O'Leary | Julie Morstad | When I Was Small | Winner |
| 2012 | Dan Bar-el | Rae Maté | Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been? | Finalist |
| 2012 | Nicola I. Campbell | Kim LaFave | Grandpa's Girls | Finalist |
| 2012 | Mike Deas | Mike Deas | Dalen & Gole: Scandal in Port Angus | Finalist |
| 2012 | Robert Heidbreder | Marc Mongeau | Shake Awakes | Finalist |
| 2013 | Alan Woo | Isabelle Malenfant | Maggie's Chopsticks | Winner |
| 2013 | Vivien Bowers | Milan Pavlovic | Hey Canada! | Finalist |
| 2013 | Tiffany Stone | Stefan Czernecki | Rainbow Shoes | Finalist |
| 2013 | Kari-Lynn Winters | Stephen Taylor | Gift Days | Finalist |
| 2013 | Frieda Wishinsky | Sean L. Moore | What's Up, Bear?: A Book About Opposites | Finalist |
| 2014 | Julie Morstad | Julie Morstad | How To | Winner |
| 2014 | Dan Bar-el | Tim Bowers | Not Your Typical Dragon | Finalist |
| 2014 | Julie Flett | Julie Flett | Wild Berries | Finalist |
| 2014 | Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton | Gabrielle Grimard | When I Was Eight | Finalist |
| 2014 | Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read | Ian McAllister | The Great Bear Sea: Exploring the Marine Life of a Pacific Paradise | Finalist |
| 2015 | Roy Miki and Slavia Miki | Julie Flett | Dolphin SOS | Winner |
| 2015 | Caroline Adderson | Qin Leng | Norman, Speak! | Finalist |
| 2015 | Ashley Spires | Ashley Spires | The Most Magnificent Thing | Finalist |
| 2015 | Heather Tekavec | Pierre Pratt | Stop, Thief! | Finalist |
| 2015 | Chieri Uegaki | Qin Leng | Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin | Finalist |
| 2016 | Annette LeBox | Stephanie Graegin | Peace Is an Offering | Winner |
| 2016 | Robert Heidbreder | Qin Leng | Song for a Summer Night: A Lullaby | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jude Isabella | Simone Shin | The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle | Finalist |
| 2016 | Sara O'Leary | Julie Morstad | This is Sadie | Finalist |
| 2016 | Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd | Roy Henry Vickers | Orca Chief | Finalist |
| 2017 | Monique Gray Smith | Julie Flett | My Heart Fills with Happiness | Winner |
| 2017 | Julie Morstad | Julie Morstad | Today | Finalist |
| 2017 | Margriet Ruurs | Nizar Ali Badr | Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey | Finalist |
| 2017 | Nikki Tate | Nikki Tate | Deep Roots: How Trees Sustain Our Planet | Finalist |
| 2017 | Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd | Roy Henry Vickers | Peace Dancer | Finalist |
| 2018 | Faith Erin Hicks | Faith Erin Hicks | The Nameless City: The Stone Heart | Winner |
| 2018 | Nicola I. Campbell | Julie Flett | A Day with Yayah | Finalist |
| 2018 | S.E. Hume | Jessica Bromley Bartram | Charles | Finalist |
| 2018 | Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read | Ian McAllister | Wolf Island | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bill Richardson | Roxanna Bikadoroff | The Alphabet Thief | Finalist |
| 2019 | Ian Boothby | Nina Matsumoto | Sparks! | Winner |
| 2019 | Cale Atkinson | Cale Atkinson | Sir Simon: Super Scarer | Finalist |
| 2019 | Aidan Cassie | Aidan Cassie | Sterling, Best Dog Ever | Finalist |
| 2019 | Faith Erin Hicks | Faith Erin Hicks | The Nameless City: The Divided Earth | Finalist |
| 2019 | Margriet Ruurs | Robert Bateman | Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kyo Maclear | Julie Morstad | It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way | Winner |
| 2020 | Jen Croll | Aneta Pacholska | Bad Boys of Fashion: Style Rebels and Renegades Through the Ages | Finalist |
| 2020 | Julie Flett | Julie Flett | Birdsong | Finalist |
| 2020 | Heather Smith | Rachel Wada | The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota’s Garden | Finalist |
| 2020 | Nancy Vo | Nancy Vo | The Ranger | Finalist |
| 2021 | Rina Singh | Ellen Rooney | Grandmother School | Winner |
| 2021 | Linda Bailey | Joy Ang | Princesses Versus Dinosaurs | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bonnie Sherr Klein | Élisabeth Eudes-Pascal | Beep Beep Bubbie | Finalist |
| 2021 | Danny Ramadan | Anna Bron | Salma the Syrian Chef | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jordan Scott | Sydney Smith | I Talk Like a River | Finalist |
| 2022 | Julie Morstad | Julie Morstad | Time is a Flower | Winner |
| 2022 | Whitney Gardner | Whitney Gardner | Long Distance | Finalist |
| 2022 | Kallie George | Elly McKay | The Secret Fawn | Finalist |
| 2022 | Shane Goth | Yong Ling Kang | The Midnight Club | Finalist |
| 2022 | David A. Robertson | Julie Flett | On the Trapline | Finalist |
| 2023 | Jessika Von Innerebner | Jessika Von Innerebner | That's My Sweater! | Winner |
| 2023 | Linda Bailey | Isabelle Follath | Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock | Finalist |
| 2023 | Nathan Fairbairn | Michele Assarasakorn | PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space | Finalist |
| 2023 | Guojing | Guojing | The Flamingo | Finalist |
| 2023 | Buffy Sainte-Marie | Julie Flett | Still This Love Goes On | Finalist |
| 2024 | Jordan Scott | Sydney Smith | My Baba’s Garden | Winner |
| 2024 | E. G. Alaraj | Martyna Czub | When Stars Arise | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Lorna Schultz Nicholson | Ellen Rooney | What to Bring | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Kirsten Pendreigh | Crystal Smith | Maybe a Whale | Shortlist |
| 2024 | David A. Robertson | Maya McKibben | The Song That Called Them Home | Shortlist |