Genre Children's literature Name Sarah Ellis | Role Writer | |
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Occupation Writer, librarian, teacher Education University of British Columbia Awards Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature Nominations Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Books Baby Project, A Prairie as Wide as the Sea, The several lives of Or, Salmon Forest, Back of Beyond: Stories of Similar People Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Carol Matas, Karleen Bradford, Maxine Trottier | ||
This article is about the contemporary Canadian children's author. For the 19th Century English author of books about women, see Sarah Stickney Ellis.
Contents
- Awards
- Novels
- Picture Books
- Short story collections
- Dear Canada Diary Books
- Chapter Books
- Books About Writing
- Anthologies Edited
- References
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. She has been a librarian in Toronto and Vancouver. She has also written reviews for Quill and Quire. 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."
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.
She is an out lesbian.
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.
Novels
"Outside In"