Julie Lawson | |
---|---|
Born | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | November 9, 1947
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | Canadian |
Education | University of Victoria (BA) |
Notable awards | Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize (1994) |
Spouse | Patrick Lawson |
Website | |
julielawson |
Julie Lawson (born November 9, 1947, in Victoria, Canada) [1] is a Canadian writer of children's nonfiction books. Her 1993 book, White Jade Tiger, won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. [2]
Lawson was born November 9, 1947, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. [1] Her grandfather was an immigrant from Sweden. [3] She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Victoria [1] with teaching certifications in French and English. [4]
Lawson's first book, The Sand Sifter, was published in 1990. Aside from writing, she worked as a school teacher in France, as well as Saanich and Sooke, British Columbia. [1]
She is married to Patrick Lawson. [1]
Emma and the Silk Train is a Junior Library Guild book. [5]
Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1994 | White Jade Tiger | Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize | Winner | [6] [2] |
1997 | Whatever You Do, Don’t Go Near That Canoe! | Tiny Torgi Literary Award | Winner | [7] |
1998 | Emma and the Silk Train | Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize | Finalist | |
2008 | No Safe Harbour | Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award | Winner | [8] |
2011 | Ghosts of the Titanic | Silver Birch Award | Finalist | [9] |
2013 | Ghosts of the Titanic | Chocolate Lily Young Readers’ Choice Award | Winner | [10] |
2018 | A Blinding Light | Bolen Books Children's Book Prize | Finalist | [11] |
2018 | A Blinding Light | Geoffrey Bilson Award | Finalist | [12] [13] |
James Heneghan, who has also written under the joint pseudonym B. J. Bond, was a British-Canadian author of children's and young adult novels.
The Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award is a literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian children's book. The book must be written in English and published in Canada during the preceding year. The writer must be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
Polly Horvath is an American-Canadian author of novels for children and young adults. She won the 2003 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Canning Season, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2010, Horvath received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.
Everything on a Waffle is a 2001 bestselling children's novel, written by Polly Horvath and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book was critically acclaimed and won a variety of awards, including the 2002 Newbery Honor. A sequel, One Year in Coal Harbour, was published in 2012.
Budge Marjorie Wilson was a Canadian writer. She was noted for her work in children's literature.
The BC Book & Yukon Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers and publishers.
The Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best juvenile or young adult novel or work of non-fiction by a resident of British Columbia or the Yukon, Canada. It was first awarded in 1987. It is supported by the B.C Library Association.
Sarah Ellis is a Canadian children's writer and librarian. She has been a librarian in Toronto and Vancouver. She has also written reviews for Quill and Quire. She taught writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a masthead reviewer for The Horn Book.
Maggie de Vries, born in 1961 in Ontario, Canada is a writer for children, teens and adults and creative writing instructor. Her 2010 book, Hunger Journeys and her 2015 book Rabbit Ears both won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.
Jacqueline Pearce is a Canadian author of books for children and teens. She writes contemporary and historical fiction, as well as poetry.
Richard Allen "Rick" Jacobson is a Canadian artist, illustrator, and writer who uses the names Richard A. Jacobson and Rick Jacobson professionally.
Sue Ann Alderson, an American children's novelist. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Ohio State University in 1962 and a Master of Arts in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Alderson moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1967, where she taught at Simon Fraser University. She also was a professor in the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia.
Monique Polak is a writer from Montreal, Quebec. She has won the Janet Savage Blachford Prize, formally known as the Quebec Writer's Foundation Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, three times: What World is Left (2009), Hate Mail (2014), and Room for One More (2020).
Susin Nielsen is a Canadian author for children, adolescent and young adults. She received the 2012 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature and the 2013 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award for her young adult novel The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen, which deals with the aftermath of a school shooting.
Carrie Mac is a Canadian author of more than a dozen novels for Young Adults, both contemporary and speculative. Her latest work is the literary novel, LAST WINTER, due out from Random House Canada in early 2023. She also writes literary short fiction, and creative non-fiction. Some of her accolades include a CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, and the Arthur Ellis Award, as well as various other awards and recognitions.
The USBBY Outstanding International Books List is an initiative of the United States section of the International Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) to produce an annual list of the outstanding children's books from around the world.
Ted Staunton is a Canadian author and teacher, best known for his children's books and numerous series. He has published nearly sixty titles.
Sheila Agnes Egoff was a Canadian librarian, literary critic, and historian who was Canada's first professor of children's literature. A recipient of the Order of Canada, she was known for her studies of children's fiction including The Republic of Childhood (1967), Thursday's Child (1981) and Worlds Within (1988). The Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize is named after her.
Linda Granfield is an American-Canadian writer of nearly thirty nonfiction children's books. In 2001, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, an honour bestowed by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer or illustrator whose body of work has been "inspirational to Canadian youth".
Hugh Brewster is an Canadian writer of nonfiction books for children.