Administered by the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable, the Sheila Barry Best Picturebook of the Year Award will be announced each year at what has previously been known as the Fall VCLR Annual Illustrator’s Breakfast but will now be the Annual VCLR Sheila Barry Best Canadian Picturebook of the Year Award Breakfast.
The $2500 cash award is specifically for books in the acknowledged picturebook format famously defined by Barbara Bader in 1976 as “an art form [that] hinges on the interdependence of pictures and words, on the simultaneous display of two facing pages, and on the drama of the turning of the page”
Submissions are due March 31, 2021. The submission fee is $30 per title. For each submission please include three copies of the book. If the book is shortlisted we will request brief bios of each author/and/or illustrator, their photos, and contact information.
You can find out more about the submission criteria and download the submission form here.