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The 2004 awards marked the first time that the children's literature awards were presented separately from the adult awards; they were presented at a special ceremony dedicated to promoting children's literature.

1 English-language finalists

1.1 Fiction

• Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
• David Bezmozgis , Natasha and Other Stories
• Trevor Cole , Norman Bray, In the Performance of His Life
• Colin McAdam , Some Great Thing
• Alice Munro, Runaway

1.2 Poetry

• Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
• Tim Bowling , The Memory Orchard
• David Manicom, The Burning Eaves
• John Terpstra , Disarmament
• Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing

1.3 Drama

• Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
• Robert Chafe , Butler's Marsh and Tempting Providence
• Michael Healey , Rune Arlidge
• Karen Hines , The Pochsy Plays
• Mieko Ouchi , The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)

1.4 Nonfiction

• Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
• Anne Coleman , I'll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers
• Christopher Dewdney, Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
• Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
• Jan Zwicky, Wisdom & Metaphor

1.5 Children's Literature - Text

• Kenneth Oppel , Airborn
• Martine Leavitt , Heck Superhero
• Sharon MacKay , Esther
• Judd Palmer , The Wolf King
• Ange Zhang , Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution

1.6 Children's Literature - Illustration

• Stéphane Jorisch , JabberwockyFor other uses of the name Jabberwocky, see Jabberwocky (disambiguation). Jabberwocky is a poem (of nonsense verse) found in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. It is generally considered to be the greatest nonsense poe
• Nicolas Debon , Dawn Watch
• Marie-Louise Gay , Stella, Princess of the Sky
• Kim LaFave , A Very Unusual Dog
• Barbara Reid , Peg and the Yeti

1.7 Translation (French to English)

• Judith Cowan , Mirabel ( Pierre Nepveu , Lignes aériennes)
• Sheila FischmanSheila Leah Fischman (born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1937) is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature. She studied at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, where she earned a B., The Alien House ( Élise Turcottelise Turcotte is a Canadian writer born in Sorel, Quebec on June 26, 1957. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the University of Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at the CEGE)
• Liedewy Hawke , The Iguana ( Denis Thériault )