After graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1988, illustrator and designer Pascal Milelli headed for the West Coast in 1989, settling in Vancouver. His award-winning children's book, Rainbow Bay, written by Stephen Eaton Hume, was published in 1995, followed by The Art Room in 2002, written by Susan Vande Griek. The Canadian Library Association awarded The Art Room its top prize, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for Illustration.

His latest illustration credit is Go Home Bay (Anansi $18.95), also written by Susan Vande Griek is a re-imagining of the historical event of a young girl learning to paint with Tom Thomson - one of Canada's best-known artists.

BOOKS

Go Home Bay (Anansi 2016), written by Susan Vande Griek $18.95 978-1-55498-701-6

The Art Room (2002) written by Susan Vande Griek

Rainbow Bay (1995) written by Stephen Eaton Hume

[BCBW 2016]