2024 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award finalists revealed

IBBY Canada has announced the finalists for the 2024 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award.

The award, which was established in 1985 following the death of illustrator and author Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver, is presented to a Canadian illustrator in recognition of outstanding artistic talent.

The finalists are:

Boozhoo! Hello!, illustrated and written by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (Groundwood Books)
Frostfire, illustrated and written by Elly MacKay (Tundra Books)
Garbage Gulls, illustrated by Isabella Fassler and written by Dorson Plourde (Kids Can Press)
Mother Aspen: A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Communicate, illustrated by Crystal Smith and written by Annette LeBox (Groundwood Books)
The Noisy Puddle: A Vernal Pool Through the Seasons, illustrated by Miki Sato and written by Linda Booth Sweeney (Owlkids Books)
The Pig & the Dumpling, illustrated by Veselina Tomova and written by Bonnie Johnstone (Running the Goat Books & Broadsides)
La tasse de Gilles, illustrated by Qin Leng and written by Catherine Trudeau (Éditions de la Pastèque)
This Land is a Lullaby, illustrated by Delrée Dumont and written by Tonya Simpson (Orca Book Publishers)
Tove and the Island with No Address, illustrated and written by Lauren Soloy (Tundra Books)
Viewfinder, illustrations by Salwa Majoka and written by Christine D.U. Chung (Tundra Books)