Budge Wilson

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Budge Wilson is a highly acclaimed Canadian author. Wilson was born and raised in Nova Scotia. She has written 32 children's books since her fist work was published in 1984[1] and has received more than 25 awards for her work[2]. These awards include: 21 Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" awards, First Prize in the CBC Literary Competition, a City of Dartmouth Book Award, a Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, a Marianna Dempster Award, and an Ann Connor Brimer Award.[3]

Her most recent work is the prequel Before Green Gables, a celebratory centennial release to the Anne Shirley series[4].

[edit] Books By Budge Wilson

  • Fractures: Family Stories [5]
  • Thirteen Never Changes [6]
  • The Courtship [7]
  • The Leaving and Other Stories [8]
  • The Dandelion Garden and Other Stories [9]
  • Going Bananas [10]
  • Mothers and Other Strangers [11]
  • Duff's Monkey Business [12]
  • Duff the Giant Killer [13]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.writers.ns.ca/Writers/bwilson.html Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia
  2. ^ Penguin Books, Press Release: December 14 2007, available via: http://penguin.co.uk/pressoffice
  3. ^ Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia. http://www.writers.ns.ca/Writers/bwilson.html
  4. ^ Penguin Books, Press Release: December 14 2007, available via: http://penguin.co.uk/pressoffice
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