Kady MacDonald Denton

Kady MacDonald Denton

Kady MacDonald Denton (born 22 July 1941) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was raised in Toronto. She studied at the University of Toronto, the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Chelsea School of Art [Interview with Kady MacDonald Denton by Library and Archives Canada http://www.collectionscanada.ca/read-up-on-it/015020-021002-e.html] .

Denton is the winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for English language children's illustration for "A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes", [Announcement of the Winners of the 1998 Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/1999/vc127243858934375000.htm] which also won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award [Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Awardhttp://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Amelia_Frances_Howard_Gibbon_Illustrator_s_Award&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=2505] and Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award [Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award http://www.ibby-canada.org/cleaver.html] in 1999. Previously, she had won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon award for " 'Til All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children", edited by David Booth. She won the Mrazik-Cleaver award again in 2006 for "Snow", written by Joan Clark.

Denton lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

References

External links

* [http://www.kadymacdonalddenton.ca/ Kady MacDonald Denton's official web site]


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