The Silver Birch Award is voted on by children in grades three to six for their favourite book by a Canadian author.

indicates a review is available for that book

2011

Fiction

• Kevin Sylvester – Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders

Also shortlisted:

• Andreas Oertel – Archaeolojesters
• Eric Walters – Branded
• Kate Jaimet – Dunces Anonymous
• Iain Lawrence – The Giant-Slayer
• Sharon Jennings – Home Free
• Arthur Slade – The Hunchback Assignments
• Maureen Fergus – Ortega
• Jill MacLean – The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy
• Gordon Korman – Zoobreak

Non-Fiction

• Valerie Wyatt, Fred Rix – How to Build Your Own Country

Also shortlisted:

• Daniel Loxton – Evolution
• Editors of Yes Mag – Hoaxed!
• Keltie Thomas – How Figure Skating Works
• Gillian Richardson – Kaboom! Explosions of all Kinds
• Elin Kelsey, Clayton Hanmer – Not Your Typical Book About the Environment
• Linda Granfield – Remembering John McCrae
• Ian McAllister, Nicholas Read – The Salmon Bears
• Ann Love, Jane Drake, Bill Slavin – Talking Tails
• Helaine Becker, Steve Attoe – What's the Big Idea?

Express

• Ashley Spires – Binky the Space Cat

Also shortlisted:

• Lyn Thomas, Cheryl Powers, Boris Zaytsev – 100% Pure Fake
• Chad Solomon, Christopher Meyer – Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws
• Lois Peterson – The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw
• Thomas King, Gary Clement – A Coyote Solstice Tale
• Sylvia Olsen – A Different Game
• Monica Kulling, Bill Slavin – It's A Snap!
• Norbert Rosing – Polar Bears
• Ken Roberts – Thumb and the Bad Guys
• Robert Bateman – Vanishing Habitats

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Added 28 December 2010.
Updated 14 July 2013.