The Ottawa Citizen
The most popular books ever

The following list of the most popular Canadian children's books ever was taken from The Maclean's Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture:

1894: Magaret Marshall Saunders: Beautiful Joe
1900: Laure Conan: L'loublie
1905: Charles G.D Roberts: Red Fox
1905: Ernest Thompson Seton: Two Little Savages
1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
1923: Marie-Claude Daveluy: Les aventures de Perrine et de Charlot
1930: Maxine: le petit page de Frontenac
1942: Mary Grannan: Just Mary Stories
1943: Roderick Haig-Brown: Starbuck Valley Winter
1947: W.O. Mitchell: Who Has Seen The Wind
1954: Fred Bodsworth: The Last of the Curlews
1956: Farley Mowat: Lost in the Barrens
1961: Sheila Burnford: The Incredible Journey
1966: Christie Harris: Raven's City
1973: William Kurelek: A Prairie Boy's Winter
1974: Dennis Lee: Alligator Pie
1975: Mordecai Richler: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
1975: William Kurelek: A Prairie Boy's Summer
1976: Eric Wilson: Murder on the Canadian
1977: Ted Harrison: Children of the Yukon
1978: Gordon Korman: This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall
1979: Roch Carrier: Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune (The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories)
1980: Robert Munsch: The Paperbag Princess
1986: Robert Munsch: Love You Forever
1993: David Bouchard: If You're Not from the Prairie