Sheldon Cohen (born 1949) is a Montreal-based animator and children's book illustrator.
His film animation works includes the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions The Sweater, a 1980 film adaptation of Roch Carrier's classic short story,[1][2][3] Pies, the 2004 adaptation of the Wilma Riley short story,[4] I Want a Dog, the 2003 adaptation based on the children's book of the same title by Dayal Kaur Khalsa and My Heart Attack (2015).
[5][6][7] The Sweater received 15 international prizes, including a BAFTA Award for Best Animation.
Cohen followed this success with a picture book version of the film as well a sequel, Un champion, which won him the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration[5]