Short biography
Wallace Edwards was born in Ottawa, Canada, and graduated from the Ontario College Of Art in 1980. After twenty years working as a painter and freelance illustrator, he authored and illustrated his first book Alphabeasts, published in 2002, which won the Governor General’s Award (GG) for Children’s Book Illustration.
Since then he has written and illustrated nine more books, winning many national and international awards. Paintings by Wallace Edwards can be found in private and public collections throughout the world. His latest book as of 2017, is What is Peace? is published by Scholastic.