Wallace Edwards

Wallace Edwards is a Canadian illustrator and writer who won the 2002 Governor General's Award for children's book illustration recognizing Alphabeasts.[1] He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art.

Edwards at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2015

On October 16, 2007 Wallace Edwards was nominated for the Governor General's Award for illustrating The Painted Circus.[2]To date, Edwards has both written and illustrated five published books, of which three have been nominated for this, Canada's most prestigious literary award.

Books

As writer and illustrator

  • Alphabeasts
  • The painted circus : P.T. Vermin presents a mesmerizing menagerie of trickery and illusion guaranteed to beguile and bamboozle the beholder! (Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2007), LCCN 2010-497053
  • Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe (Vancouver: Orca Book Publishers, 2012)
  • Unnatural Selections (Orca, 2014)
  • What is Peace? (Peace Quest, 2016)

References
  1. "Winners of the 2002 Governor General's Literary Awards". Canada Council for the Arts (canadacouncil.ca). 2002. Archived from the original on 26 May 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
  2. "2007 Finalists - Children's Literature (illustration)". Canada Council for the Arts. 2007. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2010.


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