Author: Sarah Ellis
Profile: Sarah Ellis is a Canadian author, writer, teacher and librarian. She is an out lesbian. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree at the University of British Columbia in 1973. In 1975, she received a Master of Library Science degree. In 1980, Sarah has also attended the Centre for the Study of Children’s Literature, Simmons College in Boston. Sarah has worked in Vancouver and Toronto as a librarian. Besides this reviews for Quill and Quire are also written by her.
Sarah Ellis teaches writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a masthead reviewer for The Hornbook. She develops ideas from anecdotes people narrate to her, from memories, family stories, articles in the newspaper, dreams, radio interviews, paying attention, observing the world and being curiosity. She belongs to a number of unions and clubs like the Children’s Writers and Illustrators, Writers’ Union of Canada, the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable and many more.
Writing style: Sarah Ellis’s genre is children’s literature.
Published Texts:
Novels
Out of the Blue
Pick Up Sticks
Next Door Neighbours
Baby Project
Odd Man Out
Outside In
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
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
Girl’s Own
Awards and Acknowledgements:
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for Odd Man Out
The Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Mr. Christie’s Book Award
IODE Violet Downey Award
Governor General’s Award for English –language children’s literature for Pick Up Sticks