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]

She is an out lesbian.[5]

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

"Outside In"

Picture Books

Short story collections

Dear Canada Diary Books

Chapter Books

Books About Writing

Anthologies Edited

References

  1. ↑ Donohue, Kathleen. "Sarah Ellis". Oxford University Press 2001
  2. ↑ Ellis, Sarah. Quill and Quire. January 2009.
  3. ↑ "Sarah Ellis: Writer, Reader, Storyteller, Librarian.". Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  4. ↑ "Sarah Ellis". CANSCAIP members. Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators, and Performers (canscaip.org). Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Secret garden". Xtra!, December 14, 2000.
  6. ↑ Pick-Up Sticks (novel)
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