LINDA GRANFIELD

Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Place of residence: Etobicoke, Ontario

As a high-school student in Melrose, Massachusetts, Linda Granfield worked on school and community newspapers, interviewing people and writing articles, an activity she thoroughly enjoyed. Two university degrees later, she came to Canada to study for her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Although she had not planned to stay, she met and married her husband, a Canadian citizen, and has been here ever since. An interest in Canadian children's literature, coupled with her love of writing, parlayed into work writing book reviews and articles on Canadian authors and illustrators. She has also done research for educational children's books, compiled bibliographies for teacher-resource books, and written and co-authored a number of non-fiction books for children. When researching a topic for one of her children's books, she likes to look at unusual sources, such as postcards, and to interview old people. There is such a wealth of information available to researchers that she finds it a challenge to stop doing the research and to start writing the book. Once the research is done, she prepares an outline and a first draft, followed by several more drafts until the book is ready for publication.

Awards

• 1994 Information Book Award for Cowboy: A Kid's Album.
• 1995 Municipal Chapter of Toronto IODE Book Award for In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae.

Selected Bibliography

1987, The Year I Was Born: A Daily Record of Events. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Toronto: Kids Can Press, c1994.
28 p.: col. ill.; 25 cm.
ISBN 1550741446

1988, The Year I Was Born: A Daily Record of Events. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995.
1 v. (unpaged): col. ill., ports.; 25 cm.
ISBN 1550741926

All About Niagara Falls: Fascinating Facts, Dramatic Discoveries. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1988.
79 p.: ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.
ISBN 0921103395 (pbk.)
ISBN 0921103506 (bound)

Canada Votes: How We Elect Our Government. Illustrated by Craig Terlson. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1994 (c1990).
64 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
ISBN 1550742507

Cowboy: A Kid's Album. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, c1993.
96 p.: ill. (some col.); 25 x 27 cm.
ISBN 1550542303

Cowboy: An Album. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1994 (c1993).
96 p.: ill. (some col.), ports.; 24 x 27 cm.
ISBN 0395684307
(American edition of Cowboy: A Kid's Album)

Dernière édition! Translated by Nicole Ferron; illustrated by Bill Slavin. Saint-Lambert, Québec: Héritage, c1994.
72 p.: ill.; 28 cm. (Héritage jeunesse)
ISBN 2762576857
(French edition of Extra! Extra!: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Newspapers)

Extra! Extra!: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Newspapers. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Toronto: Kids Can Press, c1993.
72 p.: ill.; 28 cm.
ISBN 1550741225

In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae. Illustrated by Janet Wilson. Toronto: Lester Publishing, c1995.
32 p.: ill. (some col.); 24 x 28 cm.
ISBN 1895555655

The Make-Your-Own Button Book. By Andrea Wayne-von Konigslow and Linda Granfield; illustrated by Andrea Wayne-von Konigslow. Toronto: Somerville House Publishing, c1993.
32 p.: col. ill.; 31 cm.
ISBN 0921051891

Prepared 24.06.96