Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award is presented annually by the Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques (CLA) to an outstanding illustrator of a new Canadian children's book.[1] The book must be "suitable for children up to and including age 12" and its writing "must be worthy of the book's illustrations". The illustrator must be a citizen or permanent resident. The prize is a plaque and $1000 presented at the CLA annual conference.[1] The medal commemorates and the award is dedicated to schoolteacher and artist Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon who taught academics as well as art to Ontario schoolchildren 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
The award has been presented to one illustrator for one book every year from 1971.[2]
- 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 Richard 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 - Mélanie Watt, Scaredy Squirrel
- 2008 - Mélanie Watt, Chester
- 2009 - Dusan Petricic, Mattland
- 2010 - Barbara Reid, Perfect Snow
- 2011 - Marie-Louise Gay, Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth!
- 2012 - Matthew Forsythe, My Name is Elizabeth
- 2013 - Elin Kelsey, You are Stardust
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (top page). Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. CLA. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ (list of winners). Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. CLA. Retrieved 2014-07-15.