Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award was created in 1971 to honour an outstanding work of illustration in current children's literature of Canada. The award is presented annually under the auspices of the Canadian Library Association. The award and medal are dedicated to schoolteacher and artist Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon who taught academics as well as art to Ontario schoolchildren and young adults in the 1860s and early 1870s. Her best-known work An Illustrated Comic Alphabet was published in 1966 by Henry Z. Walck in New York and Oxford University Press in Toronto.
Winners
- 1971 - Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver, The Wind Has Wings
- 1972 - Shizuye Takashima, A Child in Prison Camp
- 1973 - Jacques de Roussan, Au-Dela du Soleil/Beyond the Sun
- 1974 - William Kurelek, A Prairie Boy's Winter
- 1975 - Carlo Italiano, The Sleighs of My Childhood
- 1976 - William Kurelek, A Prairie Boy's Summer
- 1977 - Pam Hall, Down by Jim Long's Stage
- 1978 - Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver, The Loon's Necklace
- 1979 - Ann Blades, A Salmon for Simon
- 1980 - Laszlo Gal, The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- 1981 - Douglas Tait, The Trouble with Princesses
- 1982 - Heather Woodall, Ytek and the Arctic Orchid
- 1983 - Lindee Climo, Chester's Barn
- 1984 - Ken Nutt, Zoom at Sea
- 1985 - Ian Wallace, Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance
- 1986 - Ken Nutt, Zoom Away
- 1987 - Marie-Louise Gay, Moonbeam on a Cat's Ear
- 1988 - Marie-Louise Gay, Rainy Day Magic
- 1989 - Kim LaFave, Amos's Sweater
- 1990 - Kady MacDonald Denton, Til All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children
- 1991 - Paul Morin, Orphan Boy
- 1992 - Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales
- 1993 - Paul Morin, The Dragon's Pearl
- 1994 - Leo Yerxa Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
- 1995 - Barbara Reid, Gifts
- 1996 - Karen Reczuch, Just Like New
- 1997 - Harvey Chan, Ghost Train
- 1998 - Barbara Reid, The Party
- 1999 - Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
- 2000 - Zhong-Yang Huang, The Dragon New Year: A Chinese Legend
- 2001 - Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson, The Magnificent Piano Recital
- 2002 - Frances Wolfe, Where I Live
- 2003 - Pascal Milelli, The Art Room
- 2004 - Linda Bailey and Bill Slavin, Stanley's Party
- 2005 - Wallace Edwards, Monkey Business
- 2006 - Leslie Elizabeth Watts, The Baabaasheep Quartet
- 2007 - Melanie Watt, Scaredy Squirrel
- 2008 - Mélanie Watt, Chester
- 2009 - Dusan Petricic, Mattland
- 2010 - Barbara Reid, Perfect Snow