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Kristin Butcher | |
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Born | 1951 April 23 |
Occupation | Author |
Language | English, Russian , and French |
Genre | Children's Literature |
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Kristin Butcher is a Canadian writer and reviewer of young adult and juvenile fiction. She was born in Winnipeg, but moved to Victoria, BC, at the age of 5. [1] Her first novel, The Runaways, was published in 1997 and went on to be a regional Silver Birch Award winner. [2] Since then she has published 25 other books, including two biographies for primary readers and 10 titles in the successful Soundings and Currents series from Orca Books, [3] of which Zee’s Way and Zack & Zoe Bully and the Beagle won the 2006 and 2011 Chocolate Lily Awards, respectively. [4] She has twice toured for the Canadian Children's Book Week and given book talks at libraries and schools. Butcher is also an artist and illustrator. Butcher started as a teacher in Victoria and two years previous to that, she had met her husband Rob Butcher.
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