WALLACE EDWARDS

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Raised in Ottawa, award-winning illustrator, Wally Edwards is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art. He lives now in Toronto and has worked for 20 years on books, commercial art and editorial art for magazines. He works in pencil and watercolour and is currently working on a number of children's books.

 

Forthcoming:

The New Umbrella
Kids Can Press, (Can)
 

Published:

The Painted Circus
Kids Can Press, (Can), Fall 2007  

• Nominated, 2007 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, Illustration

The X-Tinct Files
designed by Karen Powers, Kids Can Press, (Can), Fall 2006

• Selected, 2008-2009 Horned Toad Tales List
  Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District, Texas
• Short-listed, 2007 Libris Award, Book Design of the Year
  Canadian Booksellers' Association

Mixed Beasts
Kids Can Press, (Can), 2005

• Nominated, 2005 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, Illustration
• Short-listed, 2006 Amelia Frances-Howard Gibbon Award for Illustration

Monkey Business
Kids Can Press, (Can)

• Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, 2005
  Ontario Arts Council
• Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustration Award, 2005
  Canadian Library Association
• Great Book Award, 2005, Canadian Toy Testing Council

Alphabeasts
Kids Can Press, (Can)

• Winner of the Governor General's Award
  for Children's Illustration, 2002
• Short-listed, Ruth Schwartz Award for Excellence
  in Canadian Children's Literature, 2003