Kit Pearson

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Kathleen Margaret Pearson (born 30 April 1947) is a Canadian writer.

Born in in Edmonton, Alberta, she was educated at Crofton House School, the University of Alberta, the University of British Columbia, and the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature.

Person 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 War Guests Trilogy.

Pearson lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 War Guests Trilogy (1999)
• Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt (2002) (Dear Canada series)