Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration
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 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: , The Twelve Dancing Princesses, retold by Janet Lunn
- 1980: Elizabeth Cleaver, Petrouchka: adapted from Igor Stravinsky and Alexandre Benois, Petrushka retold by Cleaver
- 1981: , Ytek and the Arctic Orchid: an Inuit legend, by Garnet Hewitt
- 1982: , ABC/123: The Canadian Alphabet and Counting Book
- 1983: , The Little Mermaid, retold by Margaret Crawford Maloney
- 1984: Marie-Louise Gay, Lizzy's Lion, by Dennis Lee
- 1985: , 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[]
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Marie-Louise Gay | Rainy Day Magic |
| John Bianchi | Exploring the Night Sky | |
| László Gál | The Enchanted Tapestry | |
| Shawn Steffler | Flights of Magic | |
| 1988 | Kim LaFave | Amos's Sweater |
| Marie-Louise Gay | Angel and the Polar Bear | |
| Jillian Hulme Gilliland | How the Devil Got His Cat | |
| Dayal Kaur Khalsa | Sleepers | |
| Jan Thornhill | The Wildlife ABC | |
| 1989 | The Magic Paintbrush | |
| Michèle Lemieux | A Gift from Saint Francis | |
| Jan Thornhill | The Wildlife 123 |
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 | 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 | 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[]
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Marie-Louise Gay | Yuck, A Love Story |
| and | The Snow Queen | |
| Hannah's Collections | ||
| Regolo Ricci | The Market Wedding | |
| Pa's Harvest | ||
| 2001 | Mireille Levert | An Island in the Soup |
| Wild Bog Tea | ||
| The Wolf of Gubbio | ||
| Kim LaFave | We'll All Go Sailing | |
| Mallory and the Power Boy | ||
| 2002 | Wallace Edwards | Alphabeasts |
| Dragonfly Kites/pimihákanisa | ||
| Marie-Louise Gay | Stella, Fairy of the Forest | |
| When Pigs Fly | ||
| The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon | ||
| 2003 | Allen Sapp | The Song Within My Heart |
| Four Pictures by Emily Carr | ||
| Rob Gonsalves | Imagine a Night | |
| Barbara Reid | The Subway Mouse | |
| Ludmila Zeman | Sindbad’s Secret: From the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights | |
| 2004 | Stéphane Jorisch | Jabberwocky |
| Dawn Watch | ||
| Marie-Louise Gay | Stella, Princess of the Sky | |
| Kim LaFave | A Very Unusual Dog | |
| Barbara Reid | Peg and the Yeti | |
| 2005 | Rob Gonsalves | Imagine a Day |
| City Angel | ||
| Wallace Edwards | Mixed Beasts | |
| The Highwayman | ||
| Maria Chapdelaine | ||
| 2006 | Leo Yerxa | Ancient Thunder |
| Earth Magic | ||
| Annouchka Gravel Galouchko and | The Birdman | |
| Casey at the Bat | ||
| Let's Go for a Ride | ||
| 2007 | Duncan Weller | The Boy from the Sun |
| Wallace Edwards | The Painted Circus | |
| Joanne Fitzgerald | The Blue Hippopotamus | |
| Jirina Marton | Marja's Skis | |
| Dusan Petricic | My New Shirt | |
| 2008 | Stéphane Jorisch | The Owl and the Pussycat |
| My Letter to the World and Other Poems | ||
| The Emperor’s Second Hand Clothes | ||
| Yellow Moon, Apple Moon | ||
| Kim LaFave | Shin-chi's Canoe | |
| 2009 | Jirina Marton | Bella's Tree |
| Rachel Berman | Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog | |
| Irene Luxbacher, | The Imaginary Garden | |
| My Great Big Mamma | ||
| Ningeokuluk Teevee | Alego |
2010s[]
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jon Klassen | |
| Uirapuru | ||
| Julie Flett | Owls See Clearly at Night | |
| I Know Here | ||
| The Quiet Book | ||
| 2011 | Ten Birds | |
| Isabelle Arsenault | Migrant | |
| Kim LaFave | Fishing with Gubby | |
| Red Wagon | ||
| Along a Long Road | ||
| 2012 | Isabelle Arsenault | Virginia Wolf |
| 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[4] | Northwest Passage | |
| Rachel Berman | Miss Mousie's Blind Date | |
| Gary Clement | Oy, Feh, So? | |
| Jon Klassen | The Dark | |
| How To | ||
| 2014[5] | Jillian Tamaki | This One Summer |
| Marie-Louise Gay | Any Questions? | |
| Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin | ||
| Once Upon a Memory | ||
| Julia, Child | ||
| 2015 | JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith | Sidewalk Flowers |
| Andy Jones and | Jack, the King of Ashes | |
| Kyo Maclear and | The Good Little Book | |
| A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories | ||
| Melanie Watt | Bug in a Vacuum | |
| 2016 | and | Tokyo Digs a Garden |
| Jo Ellen Bogart and Sydney Smith | The White Cat and the Monk | |
| A Hungry Lion or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals | ||
| and | The Branch | |
| Ooko | ||
| 2017 | David Robertson and Julie Flett | When We Were Alone |
| Marie-Louise Gay | Short Stories for Little Monsters | |
| and | When the Moon Comes | |
| and Sydney Smith | Town Is By the Sea | |
| Jan Thornhill | The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk | |
| 2018 | Jillian Tamaki | They Say Blue |
| The Fan Brothers | Ocean Meets Sky | |
| Shauntay Grant and | Africville | |
| Wab Kinew and | Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes | |
| At the Pond | ||
| 2019 | Sydney Smith | Small in the City |
| Isabelle Arsenault | Albert's Quiet Quest | |
| Cary Fagan and | King Mouse | |
| Julie Flett | Birdsong | |
| and | How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps |
2020s[]
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The Fan Brothers | The Barnabus Project | [6] |
| and | Weekend Dad | [7] | |
| Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith | I Talk Like a River | ||
| Jillian Tamaki | Our Little Kitchen | ||
| and | Swift Fox All Along |
See also[]
- Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature
- Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration
- Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Canada Council Children's Literature Awards" [English-language books]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-06.
- ^ "Governor General's Literary Awards" [winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award" Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine [winners]. Book Awards. Canadian Library Association (cla.org). Retrieved 2015-08-06.
- ^ "Governor General Literary Award finalists announced"[permanent dead link]. Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2013.
- ^ "Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
- ^ "Michelle Good says celebrating fiction win feels 'petty and selfish' after residential school discovery". CTV News, June 1, 2021.
- ^ "Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy-Ray Belcourt & Anne Carson among 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, May 4, 2021.
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