by Mattea Roach.<ref>"Meet the Canada Reads 2023 contenders". CBC Books, January 25, 2023.</ref> The American Library Association listed Ducks among their top ten in the 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults list. Personal life She is married to Morgan Murray, a writer whose debut novel Dirty Birds was published in 2020. She has two children. After living in New York and Toronto, Beaton now lives in Nova Scotia with her family. Awards |- | 2009 | Hark! A Vagrant| Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent | | |- | 2009 | Hark! A Vagrant| Joe Shuster Awards | | |- | 2010 | Hark! A Vagrant| Joe Shuster Awards | | |- | 2010 | Hark! A Vagrant | Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work | | |- | 2010 | Never Learn Anything From History | Doug Wright Award for The Pigskin Peters Award | | |- | 2011 | Hark! A Vagrant | Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic | | |- | 2012 | Hark! A Vagrant | Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work | | |- | 2012 | Hark! A Vagrant | Harvey Award Special Award for Humor in Comics | | |- | 2012 | Hark! A Vagrant | Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist | | |- | 2012 | Hark! A Vagrant | Doug Wright Award for Best Book | | |- | 2016 | Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection| Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication | | |- | 2016 | The Princess and The Pony| CBC Children's Choice Book Award: Illustrator | | |- | 2016 | The Princess and The Pony| E.B. White Read-Aloud Book Award: Picture Book | | |- | 2016 | King Baby| NAPPA Awards | | |- | 2016 | Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection | Doug Wright Award for Best Book | | Bibliography Comic collections Never Learn Anything From History (2009) Hark! A Vagrant (Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011, ) Step Aside, Pops (Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2015, ) Children's books The Princess and the Pony (New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015, ) King Baby (New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2016, ) Non-fiction Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands'' (Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2022, ) References External links Hark! A