Award-Winning Author and Illustrator Biographies
Linda BaileyLinda Bailey is the author of more than 20 books for children including the Stevie Diamond mystery series and the Good Times Travel Agency series of comic-book histories of ancient civilizations. She has also written seven picture books, most recently the Stanley books: Stanley's Party and Stanley's Wild Ride and the forthcoming Stanley at Sea. Bailey's books have won awards across Canada and the United States, including the B.C. Book Prize (Christie Harris Award), the Arthur Ellis Crime Writers Award, and the Georgia Storybook Award.
Born in Winnipeg, Bailey travelled around the world in her twenties and then moved to Vancouver, where she earned a B.A. and M. Ed. at the University of British Columbia. She has worked as a travel agent, a college instructor and a designer/editor of distance education materials. Bailey lives in Vancouver and has two grown daughters, Lia and Tess. She shares her home with a golden retriever named Sophie, whose goofy antics inspired and continue to inspire the fictional dog Stanley.
Bill Slavin
Bill Slavin was born Feb. 12, 1959, in Belleville, Ontario. He illustrated his first book, The Adventures of Zok the Caveman, when he was seven. It was published in an edition of one. He has been writing and illustrating ever since.
He has illustrated over 70 children's books, fiction and non-fiction, including Stanley's Party by Linda Bailey, winner of the 2004 Blue Spruce Award, the B.C. Book Prize Christie Harris Illustrated Book Award, and the Canadian Librarian's Association's Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Illustrator's Medal. He has also illustrated The Cat Came Back, The Bear on the Bed by Ruth Miller, the Good Times Travel Agency series by Linda Bailey and The Stone Lion, which he wrote and illustrated in 1995. In 2005, Slavin illustrated and co-authored with Jim Slavin, Transformed: How Everyday Things are Made, which received the 2006 Norma Fleck Award and 2006 Canadian Children's Roundtables Information Book Award.
Slavin lives in the village of Millbrook with his wife, Esperanca Melo, who is also an artist.
Deadline for 2009 award submissions: March 12, 2009
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