"L was a Lady": Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon and An Illustrated Comic Alphabet

  • Margo Beggs

Abstract

The following text was prepared to accompany a workshop presentation I gave this June at the Canadian Library Association (CLA) conference in Toronto, Ontario. The theme of the workshop was "The Art of Children's Book Illustration: A Critical Approach." I chose to speak about the life and work of Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon, who is acknowledged as creating the first Canadian children's picture book. The prestigious CLA award for children's book illustration is named in her honour.

Author Biography

Margo Beggs
Mavid Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
Issue
Vol. 3 No. 3 (1999)
Section
Picture Window
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