Occupation Children's novelist Nationality Canadian | Name Kit Pearson Role Writer | |
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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 | ||
Macl colloquia presents kit pearson an open book the redemption of story
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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- Macl colloquia presents kit pearson an open book the redemption of story
- Libr 527 book trailer the sky is falling by kit pearson
- Awards
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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.
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.