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Jan Thornhill

Jan Thornhill

Canadian writer and illustrator

Jan Thornhill (born 1955 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of educational books on science and nature for children.[1] She was the 2015 winner of the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, a lifetime achievement award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada,[2] and won the Norma Fleck Award in 2007 for her book I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids’ Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death.[3]

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A graduate of the Ontario College of Art,[4] Thornhill has illustrated many but not all of her own works. She won UNICEF's Ezra Jack Yeats International Award for illustration in 1990 for The Wildlife 123,[5] and has been a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration at the 1988 Governor General's Awards for The Wildlife ABC,[6] the 1989 Governor General's Awards for The Wildlife 123[7] and the 2017 Governor General's Awards for The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk.

She has also published the adult short story collection Drought, which was a shortlisted nominee for the ReLit Awards in 2001,[8] and has drawn illustrations for general interest magazines including The Idler.

Works

  • The Wildlife ABC (1988)
  • The Wildlife 123 (1989)
  • A Tree in a Forest (1991)
  • Crow & Fox and Other Animal Legends (1993)
  • Wild in the City (1996)
  • Before & After: A Book of Nature Timescapes (1997)
  • Drought (2001)
  • Folktails: Animal Legends from Around the World (2007)
  • This Is My Planet: The Kids' Guide to Global Warming (2007)
  • Who Wants Pizza?: The Kids' Guide to the History, Science and Culture of Food (2010)
  • Is This Panama? A Migration Story (2013)
  • Kyle Goes Alone (2015)
  • The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk (2016), received the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award[9]

References

  1. [1]
    "Nature calls author". Victoria Times-Colonist, November 16, 1995.
  2. [2]
    "André Alexis wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Hampstead writer wins children's book award". Montreal Gazette, October 17, 2007.
  4. [4]
    "Dreams of riches are unfulfilled". Calgary Herald, February 27, 1993.
  5. [5]
    "Top illustrator". Ottawa Citizen, November 3, 1990.
  6. [6]
    "Short lists for literary awards cause a stir". The Globe and Mail, February 2, 1989.
  7. [7]
    "Who will get to shake Ray Hnatyshyn's hand?". Montreal Gazette, February 10, 1990.
  8. [8]
    "Diary of an accidental judge". Vancouver Sun, May 12, 2001.
  9. [9]
    "Jan Thornhill wins $30K award for best Canadian children's book". CBC News. November 22, 2017.
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