Occupation Author Role Writer Name Kristin Butcher | Genre Children's Literature Language English Education University of Winnipeg | |
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Books In Search of Sam, Zee's Way, The Hemingway Tradition, The Trouble With Libe, Pharaohs and Foot Soldiers | ||
Kristin Butcher is a Canadian writer and reviewer of young adult and juvenile fiction. Her first novel, The Runaways, was published in 1997 and went on to be a regional Silver Birch Award winner. Since then she has published 19 other books, including two biographies for primary readers and 6 titles in the successful Soundings and Currents series from Orca Books, of which Zee’s Way won the 2006 Chocolate Lily Award. She has twice toured for the TD Canadian Children's Book Week.
Awards
Chocolate Lily Award Winner:
Kristin Butcher's books have also been shortlisted for numerous other awards including: Red Cedar Award, Violet Downey Award, Silver Birch Award, Hackmatack Award, MYRCA, Diamond Willow Award, Sheila Egoff Award, and was an honour book for the CLA Book of the Year award.