Article: Elizabeth Cleaver, William Toye, and Oxford University Press: creating the Canadian picturebook.

In a series of four Aboriginal stories published in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Oxford University Press Canada, William Toye, the influential editor at the Press, and Elizabeth Cleaver, artist and illustrator, worked together to create the first full-colour picturebooks with identifiable Canadian themes and images. This fruitful collaboration between Toye and Cleaver, and its role in nurturing Cleaver's career as an innovative children's book illustrator, is an important part of the history of the development of Canadian children's book publishing.

William Toye as Children's Book Editor

As trade editor at Oxford University Press Canada, Toye played ...

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