 She and her husband live in Peterborough, Ontario.Early in the 1990s Denton illustrated three Kingfisher collections of retellings by Ann Pilling, which have been reissued.For another Kingfisher collection several years later, "A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes", she won the 1998 Governor General's Award for English language children's illustration, and also the 1999 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award and Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Awards.