Karleen Bradford
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Karleen Bradford | |
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Born | Toronto, Ontario | December 16, 1936
Occupation | Author |
Genre | Children's Literature |
Karleen Bradford (born December 16, 1936) is a Canadian children's author.
Bradford's novel Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage is a historical novel about a Loyalist family in the United States after the American Revolution. [1]
Personal
[edit]Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bradford moved to Argentina as a child. She returned to Canada to attend university, and after graduation, she spent 34 years in different parts of the world as a wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She currently resides in Owen Sound, Ontario.[2]
Published Books
[edit]- A Year for Growing (1977) - republished as Wrong Again Robby in 1983
- The Other Elizabeth (1982)
- I Wish There Were Unicorns (1983)
- The Stone in the Meadow (1983)
- The Haunting at Cliff House (1985)
- The Nine Days Queen (1986)
- Windward Island (1989) - winner of the 1990 Max and Greta Ebel Award
- There Will be Wolves (1992) - winner of the 1993 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award
- Thirteenth Child (1994)
- Animal Heroes (1995)
- Write Now! (1996)
- Shadows on a Sword (1996)
- More Animal Heroes (1996)
- Dragonfire (1997)
- A different Kind of Companion (1998)
- Lionheart's Scribe (1999)
- Whisperings of Magic (2001)
- Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald, Johnstown, Quebec, 1783 (2002)
- Angeline (2004)
- You Can't Rush a Cat (2004)
- The Scarlet Cross (2006)
- Dragonmaster (2009)
References
[edit]- ^ Ruskin Bond, Puffin Good Reading Guide for Children New Delhi, Penguin Books India, ISBN 9780143335078 (p.171)
- ^ "Karleen Bradford". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Karleen Bradford at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Karleen Bradford at Library of Congress, with 3 library catalogue records