Ontario Library Association
Golden Oak Award

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The Golden Oak Awards are run by the Ontario Library Association. New readers in adult literacy programs vote for their favourite book or audiobook by a Canadian author.

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2015

  • Rosemary McCarney – Every Day is Malala Day

Also shortlisted:

  • David Bouchard, David Jean – Rainbow Crow
  • Brenda Chapman – The Hard Fall
  • Deborah Ellis – The Clear-Out
  • Cynthia J. Faryon – Sentenced to Life at Seventeen
  • K'Naan, Rudy Gutierrez – When I Get Older
  • William Kowalski – Just Gone
  • Don Quinlan – Rick Hansen

2014

  • Jennifer Lanthier, François Thisdale – The Stamp Collector

Also shortlisted:

  • Richard Brignall – Big League Dreams
  • Lou Allin – Contingency Plan
  • Kathleen McDonnell – Emily Included
  • Norah McClintock – Guilty
  • Deborah Ellis – My Name is Parvana
  • William Kowalski – Something Noble
  • Rebecca Upjohn, Renné Benoit – The Secret of the Village Fool

2013

Also shortlisted:

  • Christy Jordan-Fenton, Liz Amini-Holmes – A Stranger At Home
  • Carol Matas – Behind Enemy Lines: World War II
  • Frieda Wishinsky – Remembering The Titanic
  • Monica Kulling, David Parkins – In The Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up
  • Eric Walters, Eva Campbell – Matatu
  • Deborah Ellis – No Ordinary Day
  • Wendy Kitts – Sable Island: The Wandering Sandbar

2012

  • Cindy Watson – Out of Darkness: The Jeff Healey Story

Also shortlisted:

  • Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Wallace – Canadian Railroad Trilogy
  • Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, Liz Amini-Holmes – Fatty Legs
  • Kathy Stinson – Highway of Heroes
  • Deborah Ellis – No Safe Place
  • Janet Wilson – Our Earth: How Kids Are Saving the Planet
  • Brenda Chapman – The Second Wife
  • Jody Nyasha Warner, Richard Rudnicki – Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged

2011

  • Rona Arato – Courage and Compassion

Also shortlisted:

  • William Kowalski – The Barrio Kings
  • Christine Welldon – The Children of Africville
  • David Adams Richards – The Christmas Tree
  • Sarah L. Thomson, Rob Gonsalves – Imagine a Place
  • Zoe Whittall – The Middle Ground
  • Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch – Stolen Child
  • Nancy Hartry – Watching Jimmy

2010

  • Katie Smith Milway, Eugenie Fernandes – One Hen: How One Small Loan Made A Big Difference

Also shortlisted:

  • Ann Alma – Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis
  • Marsha Skrypuch, Muriel Wood – Call Me Aram
  • James C. Dekker – Impact
  • Deborah Ellis – Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories
  • Susin Nielsen – Word Nerd

2009

  • Alma Fullerton – Libertad

Also shortlisted:

  • Vicki Grant – I.D.
  • Kathy Kacer – Hiding Edith
  • Joy Kogawa – Naomi's Tree
  • Veronika Martenova Charles – The Birdman
  • Susan Whelehan, Anne Laurel Carter (editors) – My Wedding Dress: true-life tales of lace, laughter, tears and tulle

2008

  • Deborah Ellis – I Am a Taxi

Also shortlisted:

2007

  • Pamela Porter – The Crazy Man

Also shortlisted:

  • Dionne Brand – Earth Magic
  • Nadja Halilbegovich – My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary
  • Michel Rabagliati – Paul Moves Out
  • Eric Walters – Shattered
  • Maxine Trottier – Terry Fox: a story of hope

2006

  • Deborah Ellis – The Heaven Shop

Also shortlisted:

  • Tanya Lloyd Kyi – Fires!
  • Louis Hemon – Maria Chapdelaine
  • Lynne Kositsky – Rachel: The Maybe House
  • Mary Borrowman – Rescue Of Nanoose
  • Zelda Freedman – Rosie's Dream Cape

2005

  • Richardo Keens-Douglas – Tales From the Isle of Spice

Also shortlisted:

  • Ann Walsh (editor) – Beginnings: Stories of Canada's Past
  • Anne Dublin – Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything
  • Martine Leavitt – Tom Finder
  • Barbara Hehner – The Tunnel King: the True Story of Wally Floody and the Great Escape
  • Tanya Lloyd Kyi – Truth

2004

  • Deborah Ellis – Parvana's Journey

Also shortlisted:

  • Jann Arden – If I Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You?
  • Mary Cook – Another place at the table: My Mother's Story
  • John Cooper – Rapid Ray: The Story of Ray Lewis
  • Ivan E. Coyote – Close to Spider Man: Stories
  • Deborah Ellis – Parvana's Journey
  • Larry Loyie – As Long as the Rivers Flow
  • Ting-xing Ye – White Lily
  • Paul Yee – Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories

2003

  • Karen Levine – Hana's Suitcase

Also shortlisted:

  • Jack Batten – The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone: The Story of Tom Longboat
  • Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner
  • Ellen Godfrey – Murder on the Loose
  • Lynn Johnston – The Lives Behind the Lines
  • Rachel Mansfield (editor) – Yukon Adventures: the Lure of Gold
  • Stuart McLean – Vinyl Café: unplugged
  • Lawrie Raskin, Debora Pearson – 52 Days by Camel: My Sahara Adventure
  • Madeleine Thien – Simple Recipes
  • Lee Weinstein (editor) – Voices of Canadian Literacy