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."Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award" [top]. Book Awards. Canadian Library Association (cla.org). Retrieved 2014-07-15. 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. 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."Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award" [winners]. Book Awards. CLA. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
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 winnersYearIllustratorAuthorTitleRef.1971Anthology 1972 1973Au-Delà du Soleil / Beyond the Sun (bilingual)1974197519761977Down by Jim Long's Stage: Rhymes for Children and Young Fish1978 (retelling)19791980 (retelling)19811982Ytek and the Arctic Orchid: an Inuit Legend1983Chester's Barn1984Zoom at Sea1985Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance1986Zoom Away1987Moonbeam on a Cat's Ear1988Rainy Day Magic1989Amos's Sweater1990Anthology'Til All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children19911992Waiting for the Whales19931994Last Leaf, First Snowflake to Fall1995Gifts1996Just Like New1997Ghost Train19981999Anthology20002001 and Rick Jacobson2002Where I Live20032004Stanley's Party2005Monkey Business20062007Scaredy Squirrel2008Chester2009 and Gail HebertMattland2010Perfect Snow2011Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth!2012My Name is Elizabeth2013You are Stardust20142015Any Questions?2016Sidewalk Flowers
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."Canada Council Children's Literature Awards" [English-language books]. "Canada Council Children's Literature in French Awards" . online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-22."Governor General's Literary Awards" [winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
See also
CLA Book of the Year for Children Award ALA Caldecott Medal British Greenaway Medal
References
External links Book Awards at the Canadian Library Association (cla.org)