This year's illustrator is Kim LaFave whose books include: Amos's Sweater, Doggerel, I Am Small, Big Ben, A Very Unusual Dog, and many more...

Kim has won The Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration, The Ruth Swartz Children's Book Award and The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Medal for "Amos's Sweater", written by Janet Lunn and illustrated by Kim. His latest book "A Very Unusual Dog" is short-listed for the 2004 Governor General's Award in the Children's Illustration catagory. See Kim's website.