Kady MacDonald Denton – Wikipedia
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Canadian children’s book creator
Kady MacDonald Denton |
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Born | 22 July 1941 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Occupation | Illustrator, writer |
Genre | Children’s picture books |
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Kady MacDonald Denton (born 22 July 1941) is a Canadian creator of children’s books, primarily an illustrator of picture books.[a] She observed in 2011 that “I’m in that quickly-shrinking group of illustrators who doesn’t use a computer at any stage in the illustration process.”[1]
Denton was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She studied at the University of Toronto, the Banff School of Fine Arts, and the Chelsea School of Art.[2] She and her husband live in Peterborough, Ontario.[3]
Early in the 1990s Denton illustrated three Kingfisher collections of retellings by Ann Pilling, which have been reissued. For another Kingfisher collection several years later, A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, she won the 1998 Governor General’s Award for English language children’s illustration,[4] and also the 1999 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award and Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Awards.[5][6] 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.[7]
The Children’s Literature Association named Would They Love a Lion? (Kingfisher, 1995), which Denton both wrote and illustrated, as an Honor Winner of the 2015 Phoenix Picture Book Award, which annually recognises a picture book with lasting value that did not win a major award 20 years earlier. “Books are considered not only for the quality of their illustrations, but for the way pictures and text work together.”[8]
Selected works[edit]
As illustrator[edit]
- What Are You Doing, Benny? by Cary Fagan (Tundra, 2019) ISBN 9781770498570
- The Bear and Mouse series by Bonny Becker (Candlewick)
- The Good-Pie Party, by Liz Gartlon Scanlon (Arthur A. Levine, Mar 2014), ISBN 9780545448703
- The Queen of France, by Tim Wadham, (Candlewick, Mar 2011), ISBN 9780763641023
- You’re Mean, Lily Jean!, by Frieda Wishinsky (North Winds, Sep 2009)
- A Sea-Wishing Day, by Robert Heidbreder
- Snow, by Joan Clark
- A Second Is a Hiccup: A Child’s Book of Time, by Hazel Hutchins
- I Gave My Mom a Castle, by Jean Little
- Amber Waiting, by Nan Gregory
- Elephant Child, by Mary Ellis
- In the Light of the Moon and Other Bedtime Stories, by Sam McBratney
- Two Homes, by Clare Masurel
- I Wished for a Unicorn, by Robert Heidbreder
- The Arctic Fox, by Mary Ellis
- If I Were Your Father, by Margaret Park Bridges
- If I Were Your Mother, by Margaret Park Bridges
- The Umbrella Party, by Janet Lunn
- Toes Are to Tickle, by Shen Roddie
- The Kingfisher Children’s Bible: Stories from the Old and New Testaments, retold by Ann Pilling
- Realms of Gold: Myths and Legends from Around the World, by Ann Pilling
- Jenny and Bob, by David Wynn Millward
- The Travelling Musicians, retold by P.K. Page
- Before I Go to Sleep: Bible Stories, Poems and Prayers for Children, selected and retold by Ann Pilling
- The Story of Little Quack, by Betty Gibson
- ‘Til All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children, selected by David Booth
- The Ned series by Pam Zinneman-Hope
- Find Your Coat, Ned
- Let’s Play Ball, Ned
- Let’s Go Shopping, Ned
- Time for Bed, Ned
As author and illustrator[edit]
- A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes (1998)
- Watch Out, William! (1996)
- Would They Love a Lion? (1995)
- The Christmas Boot (1990)
- Janet’s Horses (1990)
- Dorothy’s Dream (1989)
- Granny Is a Darling (1988)
- The Picnic (1988)
- ^ Asked in 2011 whether she is an “illustrator or an author/illustrator”, she labeled herself “Illustrator/author”.[1] As of 14 July 2014 she lists 18 books published from 2000, of which she wrote one; 23 published earlier, of which she wrote as many as seven.[3]
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