Barbara reid biography
Barbara Reid (born November 16, ) is a Canadian illustrator and author of children's books.
I am the author and illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, and the illustrator of over twenty five.!
Barbara Reid
Canadian illustrator and writer
Barbara Reid (born November 16, 1957)[1] is a Canadian illustrator and author of children's books.
She has been called "one of Canada's major literary figures".[2] In 2012, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People,[3][4] an honour presented annually to a writer or illustrator whose body of work has been "inspirational to Canadian youth".[2]
Biography
Reid was born in Toronto, Ontario, on November 16, 1957, and studied at the Ontario College of Art.[1]
After graduation, she began her career creating illustrations for textbooks, after which she began illustrating children's books.[5] She is known for her unique, sculpted-clay imagery, which was established with her illustrations for Elizabeth Clark's The New Baby Calf (1984).[1] She creates her illustrations by starting with a pencil drawing, then builds up the image usin