Kit Pearson

Kit Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1947 and grew up there and in Vancouver, B.C. She received her B.A. from the University of Alberta, her M.L.S. from the University of British Columbia and her M.A. from the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature in Boston. She worked for ten years as a children’s librarian in Ontario and B.C., and is now a full-time writer living in Victoria. Her books have been published in Canada in English and French, in the U.S., Austtralia, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, China and Korea. She has won fourteen awards for her writing, including the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work in 1998.

Books for Children

THE DARING GAME Penguin Books Canada 1986

A HANDFUL OF TIME Penguin Books Canada 1987
- Canadian Library Association Book-of-the-Year-for-Children Award

THE SKY IS FALLING Penguin Books Canada 1989
- Canadian Library Association Book-of-the-Year-for-Children Award
- Mr Christie’s Book Award
- Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
- Silver Pencil Award (Netherlands)

THE SINGING BASKET Groundwood Books 1990 A retold folktale illustrated by Ann Blades

LOOKING AT THE MOON Penguin Books Canada 1991
- Manitoba Younger Readers’ Choice Award

THE LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN Penguin Books Canada 1993
- National I.O.D.E Violet Downey Award
- Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

AWAKE AND DREAMING Penguin books Canada 1996
- Ruth Schwartz Award
- Governor-General’s Award
- Red Cedar Award
- Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award
- CBC Young Canada Reads winner

THIS LAND: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANTHOLOGY OF CANADIAN FICTION FOR YOUNGER READERS (Editor) Penguin Books Canada, 1998

WHISPERS OF WAR: THE WAR OF 1812 DIARY OF SUSANNA MERRITT
Scholastic Books Canada 2002

A PERFECT GENTLE KNIGHT Penguin Books Canada 2007