Sydney Smith

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Nova Scotia illustrator Sydney Smith has brought numerous children's stories to life with his artwork. He won the 2015 Governor General's Literary Awardfor children's literature (illustrated books) as well as TheNew York TimesBest Illustrated Children's Book of the Year for his wordless picture bookSidewalk Flowersby JonArno Lawson. His latest published work,Town Isby the Sea, written by Joanne Schwartz, is the story of a day in the life ofa young maritime boy and the things he sees in his seaside coal-mining town. Their collaboration won the $50KTD Canadian Children's Literature Award Canada's richest prize for children's books.

• Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith win $50K TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
• Sydney Smith: 6 stories I'd love to illustrate
• Jan Thornhill's favourite book of 2017 was Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz & Sydney Smith
• How East Coast mining culture inspired Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith's beautiful picture book
• Grade 4 and 5 students in Halifax get to know coal mining culture through Town Is by the Sea
• Sydney Smith and Joanne Schwartz's favourite Canadian book of 2018: The Funeral by Matt James

Books by Sydney Smith

Interviews

Mainstreet NS4:06Halifax TD Kids Book Club

Students at Prospect Road Elementary School share their impressions of Town Is by the Sea, a picture book by Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith.