Greystone Books

Greystone Books has received many accolades for its high-quality publishing. Browse our full list of award-winning books.

Most recently, Allan Casey's ode to Canada's fresh water system, Lakeland won the 2010 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. Fellow Saskatchewanean David Carpenter won the 2010 Saskatchewan Book Award for his meditation on hunting, A Hunter's Confession.

In 2009, Andrew Nikiforuk�s book, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, was a major success. It was the winner of the very prestigious Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for 2009, and the recipient of the 2009 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Award. Tar Sands was also a finalist for the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Reporting and received a Special Award of Merit from the Grantham Foundation. In addition to all these prizes, Tar Sands was also short-listed for the 2009 BC Booksellers� Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie, and a 2008 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Environment category.

Brian Brett�s irreverent and illuminating book, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, won the 2009 Writers� Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, and was long-listed for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. It also took home the 2010 BC Booksellers� Choice Award.

Finding Rosa: A Mother With Alzheimer�s, a Daughter in Search of the Past, by Caterina Edwards, won the 2009 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, and was nominated for the 2009 City of Edmonton Book Prize.

And the adventurous travelogue Rowboat in a Hurricane: My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic Ocean, by Julie Angus, won an Honorable Mention in the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award in the Outdoor Literature category.

To learn more about our other award winning books please consult the list below or browse our full list of award-winning books.

Greystone Books Award Winners

Winner of the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award

Tale of a Great White Fish is winner of the 2006 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award in the Environment & Ecology category.

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Winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Book Prize

Tale of a Great White Fish is the winner of the 2007 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Book Prize, part of the BC Book Prizes.

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Nominated for the Silver Birch Express Award

Tale of a Great White Fish has been nominated for the 2008 Silver Birch Express Award. Children across Ontario will be reading the nominated books and will cast their votes in the spring. The winner will be announced in May 2008.

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Winner of the BC Booksellers Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie

David Suzuki: The Autobiography is the winner of the 2007 BC Booksellers Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie.

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Winner of the CBA Libris Award for Non-fiction Book of the Year

David Suzuki: The Autobiography is the recipient of the 2007 CBA Libris Award for the Non-fiction Book of the Year.

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Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design

A Canadian Saturday Night is the recipient of 3rd place in the Prose Non-fiction Illustrated category of the 2006 Alcuin Society Book Design Awards.

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Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design

Hiking the West Coast Trail received an Honorable Mention in the Reference category from the fine judges of the 2006 Alcuin Society Book Design Awards.

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Alcuin Best Book Design From All Over the World

Each year the winners of the Alcuin Society Book Design Awards are entered into an international book design award - the Best Book Design From All Over the World Competition. We are thrilled that Crows was shortlisted in this prestigious competition.

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