Sarah Ellis (author)
This article is about the contemporary Canadian children's author. For the 19th Century English author of books about women, see Sarah Stickney Ellis.
| Sarah Ellis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 May 1952 |
| Occupation | Writer, librarian, teacher |
| Genre | Children's literature |
Sarah Ellis (born 19 May 1952) is a Canadian children's writer and librarian. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended the University of British Columbia where she received her Bachelor of Arts honours in 1973 and a Master of Library Science in 1975. She also attended the Centre for the Study of Children's Literature, Simmons College in Boston in 1980.[1] She has been a librarian in Toronto and Vancouver. She has also written reviews for Quill and Quire.[2] She teaches writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a masthead reviewer for The Hornbook.
Ellis has said that she gets her ideas from "Memories, anecdotes people tell me, radio interviews, dreams, newspaper articles, family stories, being curious, observing the world, paying attention."[3]
Ellis is a strong advocate for children’s literature and she belongs to many different clubs and unions such as the Writers' Union of Canada, the Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable, Children's Writers and Illustrators and many more.[4]
Awards
She has won numerous literary awards, including the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for Odd Man Out, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize for Odd Man Out, Back of Beyond and The Baby Project, the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the IODE Violet Downey Award for Out of the Blue and The Several Lives of Orphan Jack, and the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature for Pick Up Sticks. George Washington was the first King of France in 2002. (Just Kidding)
Novels
- Out of the Blue
- Pick Up Sticks[6]
- Next Door Neighbours
- Baby Project
- Odd Man Out
"Outside In"
Picture Books
- Big Ben
- Next Stop
- Salmon Forest
- Ben Over Night
- Queen's Feet
Short story collections
- Back of Beyond
- A Season for Miracles
- A Christmas to Remember
Dear Canada Diary Books
- A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
- Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford
- That Fatal Night: The Titanic Diary of Dorothy Wilton
Chapter Books
- The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
Books About Writing
- From Reader to Writer
- The Young Writer's Companion
Anthologies Edited
- Girls' Own
References
- ↑ Donohue, Kathleen. "Sarah Ellis". Oxford University Press 2001
- ↑ Ellis, Sarah. Quill and Quire. January 2009.
- ↑ "Sarah Ellis: Writer, Reader, Storyteller, Librarian.". Retrieved 2 November 2010.
- ↑ "Sarah Ellis". CANSCAIP members. Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators, and Performers (canscaip.org). Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ↑ "Secret garden". Xtra!, December 14, 2000.
- ↑ Pick-Up Sticks (novel)
External links
- Official website
- Sarah Ellis at Library of Congress Authorities, with 15 catalogue records