Sarah Ellis (author)

Sarah Ellis (born 19 May 1952) is a Canadian children's writer and

librarian. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended
Sarah Ellis
the University of British Columbia where she received her Bachelor Born 19 May 1952
of Arts honours in 1973 and a Master of Library Science in 1975. She Occupation Writer, librarian,
also attended the Centre for the Study of Children's Literature, teacher
Simmons College in Boston in 1980.[1] She has been a librarian in Genre Children's literature
Toronto and Vancouver. She has also written reviews for Quill and
Quire.[2] 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."[3]

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.[4]

She is an out lesbian.[5]

Contents
Awards
Novels
Picture books
Short story collections
Dear Canada Diary books
Chapter books
Books about writing
Anthologies edited
References
External links

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
 Out of the Blue
Pick Up Sticks[6]
Next Door Neighbours
Baby Project
Odd Man Out
Outside In

Picture books
Big Ben
Next Stop
Salmon Forest
Ben Over Night
Queen's Feet
Putting Up With Mitchell

Short story collections

Back of Beyond
A Season for Miracles
A Christmas to Remember
The Tunnel
Gore

Dear Canada Diary books

A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford
That Fatal Night: The Titanic Diary of Dorothy Wilton

Chapter books
The Several Lives of Orphan Jack

Books about writing

From Reader to Writer
The Young Writer's Companion

Anthologies edited
Girls' Own

References
 1. Donohue, Kathleen. "Sarah Ellis". Oxford University Press 2001
2. Ellis, Sarah. Quill and Quire. January 2009.
3. "Sarah Ellis: Writer, Reader, Storyteller, Librarian" (http://www3.telus.net/andyspandy/index.htm
l). Retrieved 2 November 2010.
4. "Sarah Ellis" (http://www.canscaip.org/Sys/PublicProfile/5889598/1160952). CANSCAIP
members. Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators, and Performers (canscaip.org).
Retrieved 30 July 2015.
5. "Secret garden" (http://archives.xtra.ca/Story.aspx?s=1421710) Archived (https://web.archive.or
g/web/20071005031830/http://archives.xtra.ca/Story.aspx?s=1421710) 2007-10-05 at the
Wayback Machine. Xtra!, December 14, 2000.
6. Pick-Up Sticks (novel)

External links
Official website (http://sarahellis.ca)
Sarah Ellis (https://lccn.loc.gov/n91099717) at Library of Congress Authorities, with 15
catalogue records

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