Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver
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Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award winners
The Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award was established in 1985 following the death of Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver. In her will, Cleaver left a fund of $10,000 dollars for an award to be given annually in recognition of outstanding artistic talent in a Canadian picture book. The recipient receives a cheque for $1,000 dollars and a certificate.
Below are the list of award winners to date:
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2006 – Kady MacDonald Denton, Snow
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2005 – Geneviève Côté, The Lady of Shalott
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2004 – Stéphane Poulin, Un chant de Noël
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2003 – Pierre Pratt, Where's Pup?
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2002 – Janie Jaehyun Park, The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon
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2001 – Marie-Louise Gay, Stella, Queen of the Snow
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2000 – Michèle Lemieux, Stormy Night
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1999 – Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
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1998 – Pascal Mileli, Rainbow Bay
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1997 – Harvey Chan, Ghost Train
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1996 – Janet Wilson, Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt
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1995 – Murray Kimber, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story
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1994 – Leo Yerxa, Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
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1993 – Barbara Reid, Two by Two
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1992 – Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales
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1991 – Paul Morin, The Orphan Boy
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1990 – Ian Wallace, The Name of the Tree
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1989 – Eric Beddows, Night Cars
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1988 – Stéphane Poulin, Can You Catch Josephine?
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1987 – Barbara Reid, Have You Seen Birds?
- 1986 – Ann Blades, By the Sea: An Alphabet Book





