AWARD ELIZABETH MRAZIK-CLEAVER CANADIAN PICTURE BOOK
This award whose full title is The Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award is named after Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver. She bequeathed a $10,000 legacy as a basis for an award to be given to an outstanding illustrator of a picture book. The recipient receives $1000 and a certificate.
Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver, Born 7 February 1939 in Montréal; died 27 July 1985 in Montréal, was a prominent writer and illustrator of children’s books. She is probably best known for the Enchanted Caribou and for illustrating The Loon’s Necklace.
PAST WINNERS:
2018 – Julie Morstad, Bloom
2017 – Julie Kraulis, A Pattern for Pepper
2016 – Isabelle Arsenault, Louis parmi les spectres
2015 – Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers
2014 – Pierre Pratt, Stop, Thief!
2013 – Julie Morstad, How To
2012 – Isabelle Arsenault, Virginia Wolf
2011 – Cybèle Young, A Few Blocks
2010 – Julie Flett, Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: L’Alfabet di Michif / Owls See Clearly
at Night: A Michif Alphabet
2009 – Oleg Lipchenko, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
2008 – Christine Delezenne, La Clé
2007 – Stéphane Jorisch, The Owl and the Pussycat
2006 – Kady MacDonald Denton, Snow
2005 – Geneviève Côté, The Lady of Shalott
2004 – Stéphane Poulin, Un chant de Noël
2003 – Pierre Pratt, Where’s Pup?
2002 – Janie Jaehyun Park, The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon
2001 – Marie-Louise Gay, Stella, Queen of the Snow
2000 – Michèle Lemieux, Stormy Night
1999 – Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
1998 – Pascal Mileli, Rainbow Bay
1997 – Harvey Chan, Ghost Train
1996 – Janet Wilson, Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt
1995 – Murray Kimber, Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story
1994 – Leo Yerxa, Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
1993 – Barbara Reid, Two by Two
1992 – Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales
1991 – Paul Morin, The Orphan Boy
1990 – Ian Wallace, The Name of the Tree
1989 – Eric Beddows, Night Cars
1988 – Stéphane Poulin, Can You Catch Josephine?
1987 – Barbara Reid, Have You Seen Birds?
1986 – Ann Blades, By the Sea: An Alphabet Book
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Internet:
www.ibby-canada.org>awards>eleizabeth-mrazik-cleaver. Accessed 3 January 2020.