Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
Lillian Shepherd, a long-time buyer for The Book Room in Halifax and life-long lover of books, died suddenly in 1997. Customers and authors visiting The Book Room were always put at ease by Lillian's ready smile and laughter, but her love of life shone through most clearly when she spoke of her husband Fred and their two daughters, Lynn and Cynthia. In 2002, Lillian’s legion of friends and colleagues from Halifax, Lunenburg, and Bermuda created the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award to applaud the book that combines Lillian’s love for illustrated children’s books and her affinity for locally produced work. The $500 prize is awarded for excellence in illustration by an Atlantic Canadian illustrator or set in Atlantic Canada. The prize is now funded by the Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Atlantic Provinces Publishers' Representatives.
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For illustrators in Atlantic Canada
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Awards Recipients
| Year | Detail | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Sydney Smith, Music is for Everyone by Jill Barber. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2014. | |
| 2014 | Susan Tooke, Lasso the Wind: Aurélia’s Verses and Other Poems by George Elliott Clarke. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2013. | |
| 2013 | Brenda Jones, I is for Island: A Prince Edward Island Alphabet by Hugh MacDonald. Ann Arbor, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2012. | |
| 2012 | Sydney Smith, There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen by Sheree Fitch. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2011. | |
| 2010 | Scott A. Keating, What Colour is the Ocean? by Gary Collins and Maggie Rose Parsons. St. John’s: Flanker Press, 2009. | |
| 2009 | Susan Tooke, Up Home by Shauntay Grant. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2008. | |
| 2008 | Richard Rudnicki, Gracie, The Public Gardens Duck by Judith Meyrick. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2007. | |
| 2007 | Brenda Jones, Skunks for Breakfast by Lesley Choyce. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2006. | |
| 2006 | Jeffrey C. Domm, Atlantic Puffin: Little Brother of the North by Kristin Bieber Domm. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2005. | |
| 2004 | Peter Rankin, Making Room by Joanne Taylor. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2004. | |
| 2003 | Geoff Butler, Ode to Newfoundland. Lyrics by Sir Cavendish Boyle. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2003. | |
| 2002 | Susan Tooke, Full Moon Rising by Joanne Taylor. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2002. |