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Kady MacDonald Denton is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was raised in Toronto. She studied at the University of Toronto, the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Chelsea School of Art.
Denton is the winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for English language children's illustration for A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, which also won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award and Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award in 1999. Previously, she had won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon award for 'Til All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children, edited by David Booth. She won the Mrazik-Cleaver award again in 2006 for Snow, written by Joan Clark.
Denton lives in Peterborough, Ontario.
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