Know your Canadian children's authors

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Lost in the Barrens won the Governor General's Award in 1956. Who wrote this adventure story about two young boys, one Cree and one white, who survive winter in the Barrens with the help of an Inuit boy?
This author's best known book is titled Love You Forever. The book begins with a mother rocking her son to sleep and ends with the roles reversed.
This author of youth fiction is best known for The Guests of War Trilogy, which includes The Sky Is Falling, Looking at the Moon and The Lights Go On Again. The trilogy tells the story of a sister and brother who are sent to Canada from England during the Second World War.
This media personality wrote a children's book titled The Queen, the Bear, and the Bumblebee.
This Canadian writer and artist's first children's book tells the story of Alego, a young Inuit girl living on Baffin Island.
This author, who won the Governor General's Literary Award in 2004 for Airborn, is best known for the trilogy Silverwing, Sunwing and Firewing.
This author and illustrator, who works with plasticine, won the Governor General's Award for Illustration for The Party in 1997.

Date modified: 2021-08-19

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