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. She has been a librarian in
Toronto and Vancouver. She has also written reviews for ''
Quill and Quire''. 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."
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.
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She is an out ]lesbian
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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
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
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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''.
Works
Novels
*''Out of the Blue''
*'' Pick Up Sticks''Pick-Up Sticks (novel)
''Pick-Up Sticks'' is a children's novel by Canadian author Sarah Ellis. The novel received the 1991 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. The story is told from the perspective of a thirteen-year-old girl, Polly, as she experienc ...
Picture books
*''Big Ben''
*''Next Stop''
*''Salmon Forest''
*''Ben Over Night''
*''Queen's Feet''
*''Putting Up With Mitchell''
Short story collections
*''Back of Beyond''
*''A Season for Miracles''
*''A Christmas to Remember''
*''The Tunnel''
*''Gore''
*''Knife''
''Dear Canada Diary'' books
*''A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall ''
*''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
External links
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1952 births
Living people
Canadian children's writers
Governor General's Award-winning children's writers
Canadian lesbian writers
Writers from Vancouver
Canadian women children's writers
Canadian women librarians
Canadian librarians