Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
From Canadian Children's Book Centre
The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, established in 2006, honours excellence in the illustrated picture book format. To be eligible, the book must be an original work in English, aimed at children ages three to eight, written and illustrated by Canadians.
- Amount
- Up to $20,000
- Who can apply
- Not found
- Where you must live
- Not found
- Art forms
- Writing
- Application fee
- $40 not confirmed - check the funder's page
- Kind
- Prize or award
- How to get it
- Open application “You are required to complete an online title submission form for each title being submitted.”
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What is offered
Money to you
- Awarded annually with a cash prize of $20,000, eligible genres include fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
In the funder's words, from their page, read September 27, 2026.
Eligibility
Books must be published between January 1 and December 31, 2025. Both the author and illustrator must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada (minimum two-year residency). No posthumous submissions. Books may be published in Canada or abroad.
What to send
You are required to complete an online title submission form for each title being submitted. Upon receipt of your online submission form(s), you will be sent a link where you can upload the PDF of your submission(s). The Baillie Award requires five (5) physical copies of each title. Please send these to: CCBC Book Awards 2026 c/o Tinlids Inc. 130 Martin Ross Avenue Toronto, ON M3J 2L4 Tinlids' hours of operation for warehouse deliveries are Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. not confirmed - check the funder's page
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Source: https://bookcentre.ca/pages/awards/marilyn-baillie-picture-book-award (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on November 2, 2026.
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