Awards & Honours

1986 Canada Council Prize for Illustration for Have You Seen Birds? 
(This award was at that time the children's literature equivalent of the Governor General's Award. Shortly after the children's awards were included under the same title of Governor Generals.) 

1986 Municipal Chapter of Toronto IODE Book Award for
Have You Seen Birds?

1987 Elizabeth Mrazik- Cleaver Award for
Have You Seen Birds?
          The Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award for Have you Seen Birds?

1988 1st Canadian to be awarded the UNICEF - Ezra Jack Keats International Award of Excellence in Children's Book Illustration for for a body of work:
The New Baby Calf, Sing a Song of Mother Goose, and Have You Seen Birds? 

1991 Mr. Christie's Book Award for the Zoe board books 

1993 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award for Two by Two

1995 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award for Gifts

         Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award for Gifts.

1996 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honour List for Gifts

1997 Governor General's Children's Literature - Illustration Award for The Party 

1998 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award for The Party

2004
The Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award for The Subway Mouse
        
Governor's General Award for Children's Literature - Illustration, Nomination for 
Peg and the Yeti

2005 Canadian Toy Testing Council Great Books for Children Award for Read Me a Book

Her original bas-relief sculptural work is represented in:
    The Osbourne Collection of the Library of Toromto
     The National Library of Canada
    The CANSCAIP Collection
    The Festival Gallery Collection  Keene, New Hampshire
    The Mazza Collection  Findlay, Ohio

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Posted by Janice Biebrich

Posted February 7/05