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Joanne Stanbridge has written and/or illustrated fourteen books for young people, including the popular Famous Dead Canadians, which was chosen as an honour book at the Silver Birch Awards. Her books have appeared on numerous "best of the year" lists, including those produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Ontario Library Association, the Canadian Children's Book Centre, and the national reviewing journal Resource Links.
Her work has also been recommended by the TD Summer Reading Club, which annually promotes reading in public libraries across Canada, and she has twice been shortlisted for the Red Cedar Award in British Columbia.
She lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada with a wise and adventurous cat named Meesha, an unwise and cowardly cat named Charlie, and an attic full of rowdy squirrels.
News!
August 2008
Funded by grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, I began a leave of absence from my job at the library to write a book about the history of women in aviation. Twelve amazing flyers, thirty-two weeks of steady writing, and one temperamental computer...let the fun begin!
June 2008
Coming soon: a picture book about the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania and the musical piece it inspired. The book is scheduled to be published by Houghton Mifflin (U.S.) in 2010.
Updated August 28, 2008
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