Ian Wallace (illustrator)

Canadian author and illustrator Ian Wallace was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and grew up in a household of readers in which a typical winter's evening was spent listening to The Wind in the Willows.^[1]

After graduating from public school, he moved to Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art, where he received an associateship and a scholarship for a year of post-graduate studies.

Since that time he has written and illustrated several hugely successful books that have won him many awards. He is probably one of Canada's most travelled writer/illustrators, having read to over 800,000 kids across Canada, the United States, Australia, Great Britain, and, in 2003, China.

He is published in Canada by Groundwood Books and in the United States by Roaring Brook Press. He currently lives in Boston with his wife Deb Wallace.

Works

Some of his published works include:

• The Man Who Walked the Earth (2003);
• The True Story of Trapper Jack's Left Big Toe (2002);
• Duncan's Way (2000);
• A Winter's Tale (1997);
• Sarah and the People of Sand River (1996), written by W. D. Valgardson;
• The Mummer's Song (1993), written by Bud Davidge;
• Mr. Kneebone's New Digs (1991);
• The Name of the Tree: a Bantu Tale (1989), written by Celia Barker Lottridge;^[2]
• Architect of the Moon (1988), written by Tim Wynne-Jones;
• Morgan the Magnificent (1987);
• Very Last First Time (1985), written by Jan Andrews;
• Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance (1984);
• The Sandwich (1975), with Angela Wood.

References

External links

• http://www.groundwoodbooks.com/gw_authors.cfm?author_id=191&type=illustrators&alpha_view=W Groundwood Books: Author biography