Kit Pearson

Kit Pearson
Born	(1947-04-30) April 30, 1947 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Children's novelist
Nationality	Canadian

Kathleen Margaret Pearson (born April 30, 1947) is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards. Pearson is perhaps best known for her linked novels The Sky Is Falling (1989), Looking at the Moon (1991), and The Lights Go on Again (1993), published in 1999 as The Guests of War Trilogy, and Awake and Dreaming (1996), which won the Governor General's Award.

Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and spent her childhood between that city and Vancouver, British Columbia. As a high-school student, she returned to Vancouver to be educated at Crofton House School. She obtained a degree in English Literature at the University of Alberta. In 1975, she began her Library degree at the University of British Columbia and took her first jobs in that field in Ontario. She later obtained an M.A. at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature in Boston. Returning to Vancouver, she completed her first novel "The Daring Game" which was published by Penguin Books.

Pearson now lives in Victoria, British Columbia, a few blocks from Ross Bay Cemetery, one of the settings in Awake and Dreaming.

Awards

• Governor General's Award for Awake and Dreaming
• Vicky Metcalf Award for a body of work
• Mr. Christie's Book Award, for The Sky is Falling
• The "Vlag en Wimpel" prize for the Dutch edition of The Sky is Falling.
• Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award, for A Handful of Time and The Sky is Falling
• Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, for The Sky is Falling and The Lights Go on Again

Bibliography

• The Daring Game (1986)
• A Handful of Time (1987)
• The Sky is Falling (1989)
• The Singing Basket (1990)
• Looking at the Moon (1991)
• The Lights Go on Again (1993)
• Awake and Dreaming (1996)
• This Land (1998; editor)
• The Guests of War Trilogy (1999) (Compilation volume of The Sky is Falling, Looking at the Moon, and The Lights Go on Again)
• Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt (2002) (Dear Canada series)
• A Perfect Gentle Knight (2007)
• The Whole Truth (2011)
• And Nothing But The Truth (2012)

References

• W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 869.

External links

• Official website
• Kit Pearson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Kit Pearson at Library of Congress, with 7 library catalogue records