Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration Canadian literary award
The Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian illustrator for a children's book written in English. It is one of four children's book awards among the Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit , one each for writers and illustrators of English- and French-language books. The Governor General's Awards program is administered by the Canada Council .
In name, this award is part of the Governor General's Award program only from 1987 but the four children's literature awards were established in 1975 under a Canada Council name. In the event, the "Canada Council" and "Governor General's" awards have recognized children's book illustration in an English-language children's book every year from 1978.[ 1] [ 2]
Canada Council Children's Literature Prize
In 1975 the Canada Council established four annual prizes of $5000 for the year's best English- and French-language children's books by Canadian writers and illustrators. Those
"Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes" were continued under the "Governor General's Awards" rubric from 1987, and continue today. Among them the English-language illustration prize was awarded every year from 1978.[ 1]
1978: Ann Blades , A Salmon for Simon , written by Betty Waterton
1979: László Gál , The Twelve Dancing Princesses , retold by Janet Lunn
1980: Elizabeth Cleaver , Petrouchka: adapted from Igor Stravinsky and Alexandre Benois , Petrushka retold by Cleaver
1981: Heather Woodall , Ytek and the Arctic Orchid: an Inuit legend , by Garnet Hewitt
1982: Vlasta van Kampen , ABC/123: The Canadian Alphabet and Counting Book
1983: László Gál , The Little Mermaid , retold by Margaret Crawford Maloney
1984: Marie-Louise Gay , Lizzy's Lion , by Dennis Lee
1985: Terry Gallagher , Murdo's Story , by Murdo Scribe
1986: Barbara Reid , Have You Seen Birds? , by Joanne Oppenheim
Three of these winning English-language illustrators also won the annual Canadian Library Association award for children's book illustration, recognizing the same books. Their CLA Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Awards are dated one year later: Blades 1979, Gál 1980, and Woodall 1982. The Howard-Gibbon award was inaugurated in 1971 for 1970 publications.[ 3]
Six illustrators listed below, winners of the English-language illustration award under the "Governor General's" name, also won the CLA award for the same book: Gay 1988, LaFave 1989, Morin 1991, Lightburn 1992, Reid 1998, and Denton 1999.[ 3]
1980s
1990s
Year
Author
Title
1990
Paul Morin
The Orphan Boy
Warabé Aska
Seasons
Frances Tyrrell
The Huron Carol
1991
Joanne Fitzgerald
Doctor Kiss Says Yes
Kady MacDonald Denton
The Travelling Musicians
Michèle Lemieux
Peter and the Wolf
Gilles Pelletier
A Happy New Year's Day
Jacquelinne White
Coyote Winter
1992
Ron Lightburn
Waiting for the Whales
Eric Beddows
Zoom Upstream
Suzanne Duranceau
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Maryann Kovalski
The Big Storm
Mireille Levert
When Jeremiah Found Mrs. Ming
1993
Mireille Levert
Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming
Scott Cameron
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
Marc Mongeau
There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen!
Russ Willms
Brewster Rooster
Leo Yerxa
Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
1994
Murray Kimber
Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story
Marie Lafrance
La Diablesse and the Baby
Michèle Lemieux
There Was An Old Man...: A Collection of Limericks
Laurie McGaw
Polar, the Titanic Bear
Martin Springett
Who
1995
Ludmila Zeman
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh
Warabé Aska
Aska's Sea Creatures
Geoff Butler
The Killick: A Newfoundland Story
Gary Clement
Just Stay Put
Frances Tyrrell
Woodland Christmas
1996
Eric Beddows
The Rooster's Gift
Alan Daniel and Lea Daniel
Sody Salleratus
Wang Kui
The Wise Washerman – A Folktale from Burma
Johnny Wales
Gruntle Piggle Takes Off
Werner Zimmermann
Whatever You Do, Don't Go Near That Canoe!
1997
Barbara Reid
The Party
Blair Drawson
Flying Dimitri
Marie-Louise Gay
Rumpelstiltskin
Robin Muller
The Angel Tree
Ludmila Zeman
The First Red Maple Leaf
1998
Kady MacDonald Denton
A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
Victor Bosson
The Fox's Kettle
Harvey Chan
Music for the Tsar of the Sea
Zhong-Yang Huang
The Great Race
Stéphane Jorisch
The Village of a Hundred Smiles and Other Stories
1999
Gary Clement
The Great Poochini
Rose Cowles
I Know an Old Laddie
Zhong-Yang Huang
Dragon New Year
Ludmila Zeman
Sindbad: from the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights
Werner Zimmermann
Brave Highland Heart
2000s
2010s
Year
Author
Title
Ref.
2010
Jon Klassen
Cats' Night Out
[ 10] [ 11]
Kristin Bridgeman
Uirapuru
Julie Flett
Owls See Clearly at Night
Matt James
I Know Here
Renata Liwska
The Quiet Book
2011
Cybèle Young
Ten Birds
[ 12]
Isabelle Arsenault
Migrant
[ 13]
Kim LaFave
Fishing with Gubby
Renata Liwska
Red Wagon
Frank Viva
Along a Long Road
2012
Isabelle Arsenault
Virginia Wolf
[ 14]
Renné Benoit
Big City Bees
Jon Klassen
House Held Up by Trees
David Parkins
In the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up
Barbara Reid
Picture a Tree
2013
Matt James
Northwest Passage
[ 15] [ 16] [ 17]
Rachel Berman
Miss Mousie's Blind Date
[ 18]
Gary Clement
Oy, Feh, So?
Jon Klassen
The Dark
Julie Morstad
How To
2014
Jillian Tamaki
This One Summer
[ 19]
Marie-Louise Gay
Any Questions?
[ 20]
Qin Leng
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
Renata Liwska
Once Upon a Memory
Julie Morstad
Julia, Child
2015
JonArno Lawson , Sydney Smith
Sidewalk Flowers
[ 21] [ 22] [ 23]
Andy Jones , Darka Erdelji
Jack, the King of Ashes
Kyo Maclear , Marion Arbona
The Good Little Book
John Martz
A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories
[ 24]
Melanie Watt
Bug in a Vacuum
2016
Jon-Erik Lappano , Kellen Hatanaka
Tokyo Digs a Garden
[ 25]
Jo Ellen Bogart , Sydney Smith
The White Cat and the Monk
Lucy Ruth Cummins
A Hungry Lion or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals
Mireille Messier , Pierre Pratt
The Branch
Esmé Shapiro
Ooko
2017
David Robertson , Julie Flett
When We Were Alone
[ 26]
Marie-Louise Gay
Short Stories for Little Monsters
Paul Harbridge , Matt James
When the Moon Comes
Joanne Schwartz , Sydney Smith
Town Is By the Sea
Jan Thornhill
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
2018
Jillian Tamaki
They Say Blue
[ 27]
The Fan Brothers
Ocean Meets Sky
Shauntay Grant , Eva Campbell
Africville
Wab Kinew , Joe Morse
Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes
Werner Zimmermann
At the Pond
2019
Sydney Smith
Small in the City
[ 28]
Isabelle Arsenault
Albert's Quiet Quest
[ 13]
Cary Fagan , Dena Seiferling
King Mouse
Julie Flett
Birdsong
Nicola Winstanley , John Martz
How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps
[ 24]
2020s
Year
Author
Title
Ref
2020
The Fan Brothers
The Barnabus Project
[ 29]
Naseem Hrab , Frank Viva
Weekend Dad
[ 30]
Jordan Scott , Sydney Smith
I Talk Like a River
Jillian Tamaki
Our Little Kitchen
Rebecca Thomas , Maya McKibbin
Swift Fox All Along
2021
David A. Robertson , Julie Flett
On the Trapline
[ 31]
Paul Harbridge , Josée Bisaillon
Out Into the Big Wide Lake
[ 32]
Brittany Luby , Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know
Bahram Rahman , Gabrielle Grimard
The Library Bus
Todd Stewart
The Wind and the Trees
2022
Naseem Hrab , Nahid Kazemi
The Sour Cherry Tree
[ 33]
Matthew Forsythe
Mina
[ 34]
Doris George , Don K. Philpot , Alyssa Koski
kā-āciwīkicik / The Move
Kyo Maclear , Gracey Zhang
The Big Bath House
Julie Morstad
Time Is a Flower
2023
Jack Wong
When You Can Swim
[ 35]
Monica Arnaldo
Mr. S
[ 36]
Jon Klassen
The Skull
Buffy Sainte-Marie , Julie Flett
Still This Love Goes On
Nancy Vo
Boobies
2024
Jean E. Pendziwol , Todd Stewart
Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
[ 37]
Danielle Daniel , Matt James
I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf
[ 38]
Adam de Souza
The Gulf
Thao Lam
One Giant Leap
Sydney Smith
Do You Remember?
See also
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