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Brenda Clark is a Canadian children's book illustrator.

At age 17, Clark decided on becoming a commercial artist;

 she studied Illustration at Sheridan College, Oakville, graduating with an honours diploma in 1977.

Clark signed her first contract with Kids Can Press in 1983, to illustrate Allen Morgan's Christopher and the Dream Dragon. She was offered the manuscript for Franklin in the Dark in 1985, and it was published in 1986. By 2014, she had illustrated 30 books in the series, in addition to activity books. The first television series based on Franklin was aired in 1997.

The original artwork for her illustrations is in the collection of the Toronto Public Library, Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books.

In 2012, Canada Post issued a set of four stamps titled “Children's Literature: Franklin the Turtle”, using illustrations from the Osborne Collection.

In December 2014, Governor General of Canada David Johnston named 95 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Clark, then a Port Hope resident, was named as a Member of the Order of Canada.