Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia and has been drawing from an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated multiple children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson, which won a Governor General’s Award, was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book and has been long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is also the illustrator of Grant and Tillie Go Walking by Monica Kulling and The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart, both highly acclaimed. Sydney has received a number of other awards for his illustrations, including the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. He now lives in Toronto and works in a shared studio space in Chinatown.

Books by Sydney Smith

Island Storm

Fitch & Smith Treasury

I Talk Like a River

Santa's First Christmas

Do You Remember?

It's Up to Us

Canada Year by Year - Revised Edition

Inkling

Small in the City

Smoot

Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts

Town Is by the Sea

Canada Year by Year

Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts

The White Cat and the Monk

Toes in My Nose

Mabel Murple

Grant and Tillie Go Walking

Sidewalk Flowers

Music is for Everyone

Flight of the Griffons

Jewel of the Thames

There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen (pb)

Pit Pony

There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen

Mabel Murple (pb)

Mabel Murple hc

Dread Crew