Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
Awarded foran outstanding illustrator of a new Canadian children's book
CountryCanada
Presented byCanadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques
First awarded1971
Last awarded2016

The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award was 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 City and Oxford University Press in Toronto.

Winners

The award has been presented to one illustrator for one book every year from 1971.[2]

Below, the author column indicates if the author is distinct from the original and/or a retelling of a text. Otherwise the text was written by the illustrator or was not original ("anthology").

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award winners
Year Illustrator Author Title Ref.
1971 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Anthology The Wind Has Wings: Poems from Canada
1972 Shizuye Takashima A Child in Prison Camp
1973 Jacques de Roussan Au-Delà du Soleil / Beyond the Sun (bilingual)
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 Al Pittman Down by Jim Long's Stage: Rhymes for Children and Young Fish
1978 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver William Toye (retelling) The Loon's Necklace
1979 Ann Blades Betty Waterton A Salmon for Simon
1980 László Gál Janet Lunn (retelling) The Twelve Dancing Princesses
1981 Douglas Tait Christie Harris The Trouble with Princesses
1982 Heather Woodall Garnet Hewitt Ytek and the Arctic Orchid: an Inuit Legend
1983 Lindee Climo Chester's Barn
1984 Ken Nutt Tim Wynne-Jones Zoom at Sea
1985 Ian Wallace Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance
1986 Ken Nutt Tim Wynne-Jones Zoom Away
1987 Marie-Louise Gay Moonbeam on a Cat's Ear
1988 Marie-Louise Gay Rainy Day Magic
1989 Kim LaFave Janet Lunn Amos's Sweater
1990 Kady MacDonald Denton Anthology 'Til All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children
1991 Paul Morin Tololwa M. Mollel The Orphan Boy
1992 Ron Lightburn Sheryl McFarlane Waiting for the Whales
1993 Paul Morin Julie Lawson The Dragon's Pearl
1994 Leo Yerxa Last Leaf, First Snowflake to Fall
1995 Barbara Reid Jo Ellen Bogart Gifts
1996 Karen Reczuch Ainslie Manson Just Like New
1997 Harvey Chan Paul Yee Ghost Train
1998 Barbara Reid The Party
1999 Kady MacDonald Denton Anthology A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
2000 Zhong-Yang Huang Dave Bouchard The Dragon New Year: A Chinese Legend
2001 Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson Marilynn Reynolds The Magnificent Piano Recital
2002 Frances Wolfe Where I Live
2003 Pascal Milelli Susan Vande Griek The Art Room
2004 Bill Slavin Linda Bailey 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 Dušan Petričić Hazel Hutchins and Gail Hebert Mattland
2010 Barbara Reid Perfect Snow
2011 Marie-Louise Gay Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth!
2012 Matthew Forsythe Annika Dunklee My Name is Elizabeth [3]
2013 Soyeon Kim Elin Kelsey You are Stardust [4]
2014 Jon Klassen Lemony Snicket The Dark [5]
2015 Marie-Louise Gay Any Questions? [6]
2016 Sydney Smith JonArno Lawson Sidewalk Flowers [7]

Repeat winners

Marie-Louise Gay has won the Illustrator's Award four times from 1987, most recently in 2015. Several others have won it twice.

Winners of multiple awards

Nine books won both this CLA Illustrator's Award and the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration (or Canada Council Children's Literature Prize before 1987). The illustrators and CLA award dates were Blades 1979, Gál 1980, Woodall 1982, (now under the "Governor General's Awards" name) Gay 1988, LaFave 1989, Morin 1991, Lightburn 1992, Reid 1998, and Denton 1999.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award" Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine [top]. Book Awards. Canadian Library Association (cla.org). Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. ↑ "Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award" Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine [winners]. Book Awards. CLA. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  3. ↑ "2012 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award : Ready for Reading". Toronto Public Library. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  4. ↑ "2013 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award : Ready for Reading". Toronto Public Library. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  5. ↑ "2014 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award : Ready for Reading". Toronto Public Library. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  6. ↑ "2015 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award : Ready for Reading". Toronto Public Library. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  7. ↑ "2016 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award". Toronto Public Library. Archived from the original on 2023-05-14. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  8. ↑ "Canada Council Children's Literature Awards" Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine [English-language books].
      "Canada Council Children's Literature in French Awards" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
    online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  9. ↑ "Governor General's Literary Awards" Archived 2019-01-11 at the Wayback Machine [winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  • Book Awards at the Canadian Library Association (cla.org)
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