| Presenter: | Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques |
| Awarded For: | an outstanding illustrator of a new Canadian children's book |
| Country: | Canada |
| Firstawarded: | 1971 |
| Lastawarded: | 2016 |
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. 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.
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").
| 1971 | Anthology | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 71--> | ||||
| 1973 | Au-Delà du Soleil / Beyond the Sun (bilingual) | ||||
| 1974 | |||||
| 1975 | |||||
| 1976 | |||||
| 1977 | Down by Jim Long's Stage: Rhymes for Children and Young Fish | ||||
| 1978 | (retelling) | ||||
| 1979 | |||||
| 1980 | (retelling) | ||||
| 1981 | |||||
| 1982 | Ytek and the Arctic Orchid: an Inuit Legend | ||||
| 1983 | Chester's Barn | ||||
| 1984 | Zoom at Sea | ||||
| 1985 | Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance | ||||
| 1986 | Zoom Away | ||||
| 1987 | Moonbeam on a Cat's Ear | ||||
| 1988 | Rainy Day Magic | ||||
| 1989 | Amos's Sweater | ||||
| 1990 | Anthology | ||||
| 1991 | |||||
| 1992 | Waiting for the Whales | ||||
| 1993 | |||||
| 1994 | Last Leaf, First Snowflake to Fall | ||||
| 1995 | Gifts | ||||
| 1996 | Just Like New | ||||
| 1997 | Ghost Train | ||||
| 1998 | |||||
| 1999 | Anthology | ||||
| 2000 | |||||
| 2001 | and Rick Jacobson | ||||
| 2002 | Where I Live | ||||
| 2003 | |||||
| 2004 | Stanley's Party | ||||
| 2005 | Monkey Business | ||||
| 2006 | |||||
| 2007 | Scaredy Squirrel | ||||
| 2008 | Chester | ||||
| 2009 | and Gail Hebert | Mattland | |||
| 2010 | Perfect Snow | ||||
| 2011 | Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth!< | --10--> | |||
| 2012 | My Name is Elizabeth | [3] | |||
| 2013 | You are Stardust | [4] | |||
| 2014 | [5] | ||||
| 2015 | Any Questions? | [6] | |||
| 2016 | Sidewalk Flowers | [7] |
Marie-Louise Gay has won the Illustrator's Award four times from 1987, most recently in 2015. Several others have won it twice.
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]