"[1] Denton was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Toronto, Ontario.

[3] Early in the 1990s Denton illustrated three Kingfisher collections of retellings by Ann Pilling, which have been reissued.

[5][6] Previously, she had won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon award for 'Til All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children, edited by David Booth.

(Kingfisher, 1995), which Denton both wrote and illustrated, as an Honor Winner of the 2015 Phoenix Picture Book Award, which annually recognises a picture book with lasting value that did not win a major award 20 years earlier.

"Books are considered not only for the quality of their illustrations, but for the way pictures and text work together.