
Barbara
Reid
Barbara Reid was born in 1957 in Toronto, Ontario, and has lived there ever since. At the Ontario College of Art and Design she focused on illustration, and it was for a class assignment that she first experimented with Plasticine to make a dimensional picture. She graduated from OCAD in 1980 and began work as a freelance illustrator. After working for a variety of clients, she illustrated her first picture book in Plasticine. The New Baby Calf, by Edith Newlin Chase, was shortlisted for the Canada Council Prize for Illustration. More than twenty books later, other awards include the UNICEF Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book award, and the Elizabeth Cleaver Award. The Party, which she wrote and illustrated, won the Governor General’s Award for Illustration; Fox Walked Alone was named to the IBBY International Honour List and was a Blue Spruce Award selection. Most recently, she received Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Award for Perfect Snow. Her books have been published in Canada, The USA, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Finland, Norway, China, Germany, Brazil, Korea, and Thailand.
