Biography
Isabelle Arsenault was born in 1978 in Sept-Iles, Quebec. After studies in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, she specialized in illustration. Quickly, she gained recognition from the industry and her peers through several awards from major international illustration contests such as Communication Arts, American Illustration and Applied Arts. In 2005, she won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for the illustration of her first children’s book, Le Coeur de Monsieur Gauguin. Her passion for children’s imaginations allows her to produce images that appeal to young readers as well as older ones. Through children’s illustration she gives life to her own childhood dreams and in doing so, she hopes to inspire upcoming generations. Isabelle Arsenault now lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Awards
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Virginia Wolf
2014 - Digital Book Award, Best ebook — Fixed Format/Enhanced: Children, Digital Book World Conference, Winner
2014 - IBBY Honour List Children’s Books for 2014, Illustration, IBBY Canada, Winner
2013 - Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, Canadian Library Association, Commended
2013 - CCBC Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center, Commended
2013 - Outstanding International Book, USBBY, Winner
2013 - Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, International Youth Library, Commended
2013 - White Raven Award, Ontario Library Association, Winner
2012 - Best Bets, Picture Books, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Commended
2012 - Best Books for Kids & Teens, Starred Selection, Quill & Quire, Winner
2012 - Books of the Year, IBBY Canada, Winner
2012 - Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award, Canada Council for the Arts, Winner
2012 - Governor General’s Literary Award, Children’s Illustration, , Winner
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Spork
2019 - Three Communities One Story, Libraries of Peel Region, Winner
2011 - Best Books for Kids & Teens, Starred Selection, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Winner
2011 - Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street Children's Book Committee, Winner
2010 - Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award, IBBY, Short-listed
2010 - Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities, , Winner
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My Letter to the World and Other Poems
2009 - Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Winner
2009 - Children’s Choices, International Reading Association, Winner
2008 - Governor General’s Literary Award, children’s illustration, Canada Council for the Arts, Commended
Picture Books
Virginia Wolf, 2012
Spork, 2010
My Letter to the World and Other Poems, 2008