Canadian Author Wallace Edwards will be appearing at D. A. Gordon School at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, May 5.
Edwards won the Governor General’s Award for children’s illustration for his book Alphabeasts.
This presentation is co-sponsored by the Wallaceburg and District Arts Council and The Susan Talach Memorial Book Fund.
This is a free community event, everyone is welcome to attend.
Wallace Edwards was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art (1980).
His paintings and illustrations are found in public and private collections, books, magazines, and on public display in Canada and the United States. He finds visiting with students from kindergarten to grade six especially enjoyable, where his presentations consist of reading, discussions, and drawing.
According to the Canada Council for the Arts wesite, Edwards prefers to work primarily in watercolour and pencil, using a variety of styles from cartoon to scientific illustration. His art has been described as “Curious and witty, sophisticated and highly original in approach…” resulting in work which is “visually pleasing as well as mentally stimulating”
His children’s books been reviewed in the Quill and Quire, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Macleans, the Christian Science Monitor, the National Post, the Detroit Free Press, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, the Washington Post, and the School Library Journal, among others.
