Ron Lightburn

Ron Lightburn (born June 24, 1954) is a Canadian illustrator turned landscape painter. Lightburn started his artistic career as a visual merchandiser before he moved on to illustrations by 1984. He had created seventeen book covers leading up to 1994, which included ones for Denise Robertson and William Bell. In 1991, Lightburn expanded his illustrative career to children's books.

Lightburn received the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award and Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award during 1992 for ''Waiting for the Whales''. In 1996, he co-won a Mr. Christie's Book Award with Nan Gregory for ''How Smudge Came''. At the 2016 Atlantic Book Awards, he won the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration with ''Frankenstink! Garbage Gone Bad''. Of his illustrated 14 books, he wrote 1 book ending his literary career in 2015. Outside of literature, Lightburn made highway signs throughout the 2010s as a landscape painter. Provided by Wikipedia