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The Canadian Library Association, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award for best illustrated children's book is given annually for a book written by a Canadian - or landed immigrant - and published in the last year.

The latest winner of the The Canadian Library Association, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the award. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.

  

The Latest Winner of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

2008 - Chester by Mélanie Watt

[2009 award will be made early 2009]

 

All past Winners of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

1972 - A Child in Prison Camp by Shizuye Takashima

 

1973 - Au-Dela du Soleil / Beyond the Sun by Jacques de Roussan

 

1974 - A Prairie Boy's Winter by William Kurelek

1975 - The Sleighs of My Childhood by Carlo Italiano

 

1976 - A Prairie Boy's Summer by William Kurelek

 

1977 - Down by Jim Long's Stage by Pam Hall

 

1978 - The Loon's Necklace by Elizabeth Cleaver

 

1979 - A Salmon for Simon by Ann Blades

 

1980 - The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Laszlo Gal

 

1981 - The Trouble with Princesses by Douglas Tait

 

1982 - Ytek and the Arctic Orchid by Heather Woodall

 

1983 - Chester's Barn by Lindee Climo

 

1984 - Zoom at Sea by Ken Nutt

 

1985 - Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance by Ian Wallace

 

1986 - Zoom Away by Ken Nutt

 

1987 - Moonbeam on a Cat's Ear by Marie-Louise Gay

 

1988 - Rainy Day Magic by Mary-Louise Gay

 

1989 - Amos's Sweater by Kim La Fave

 

1990 - Till All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children by Kady MacDonald

 

1991 - Orphan Boy by Paul Morin

 

1992 - Waiting for the Whales by Ron Lightburn

 

1993 - The Dragon's Pearl by Paul Morin

 

1994 - Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall by Leo Yerxa

 

1995 - Gifts by Barbara Reid

 

1996 - Just Like New by Karen Reczuch

 

1997 - Ghost Train by Harvey Chan

 

1998 - The Party by Barbara Reid

 

1999 - A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Kady MacDonald Denton

 

2000 - The Dragon New Year: A Chinese Legend by Zhong-Yang Huang

 

2001 - The Magnificent Piano Recital by Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson

 

2002 - Where I Live by Frances Wolfe

 

2003 - The Art Room by Susan Vande Griek with illustrations by Pascal Milelli

 

2004 - Stanley's Party by Linda Bailey with illustrations by Bill Slavin

 

2005 - Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards

 

2006 - The Baabaasheep Quartet by Leslie Elizabeth Watts

 

2007 - Scaredy Squirrel by Mélanie Watt

 

2008 - Chester by Mélanie Watt

 

2009 - Will be announced early 2009

 

 

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