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Occupation
  
Children's novelist

Nationality
  
Canadian


Name
  
Kit Pearson

Role
  
Writer

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Born
  
April 30, 1947 (age 76) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (
1947-04-30
)

Education
  
Crofton House School, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia

Awards
  
Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People

Books
  
The Sky Is Falling, Awake and Dreaming, A Handful of Time, The Whole Truth, The lights go on again

Similar People
  
Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Carol Matas, Janet McNaughton, Karleen Bradford

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Kathleen Margaret Pearson (born April 30, 1947) is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards. Pearson is perhaps best known for her linked novels The Sky Is Falling (1989), Looking at the Moon (1991), and The Lights Go on Again (1993), published in 1999 as The Guests of War Trilogy, and Awake and Dreaming (1996), which won the Governor General's Award.

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Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and spent her childhood between that city and Vancouver, British Columbia. As a high-school student, she returned to Vancouver to be educated at Crofton House School. She obtained a degree in English Literature at the University of Alberta. In 1975, she began her Library degree at the University of British Columbia and took her first jobs in that field in Ontario. She later obtained an M.A. at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature in Boston. Returning to Vancouver, she completed her first novel The Daring Game which was published by Penguin Books.

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Pearson now lives in Victoria, British Columbia with her partner Katherine Farris with whom she is writing a forthcoming book The Magic Boat. Their home is few blocks from Ross Bay Cemetery, one of the settings in Awake and Dreaming.

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Awards

  • Governor General's Award for Awake and Dreaming
  • Vicky Metcalf Award for a body of work
  • Mr. Christie's Book Award, for The Sky is Falling
  • The "Vlag en Wimpel" prize for the Dutch edition of The Sky is Falling.
  • Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award, for A Handful of Time, The Sky is Falling and The Whole Truth
  • Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, for The Sky is Falling and The Lights Go on Again
  • References

    Kit Pearson Wikipedia