Jean E. Pendziwol (born 1965) is a Canadian writer of children's literature from Thunder Bay, Ontario.[1] She is most noted for her book Skating Wild on an Inland Sea, which was the winner of both the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration at the 2024 Governor General's Awards,[2] and the 2024 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.[3]
Her book Once Upon a Northern Light was previously nominated for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2013 Governor General's Awards,[4] and for the TD Children's Literature award in 2014.[5]
She has also published one adult novel, The Lightkeeper's Daughters.[6]
Children's literature
[edit]- No Dragons for Tea - 1999
- Dawn Watch - 2004
- The Red Sash - 2005
- Once Upon a Dragon - 2006
- Marja's Skis - 2007
- Once Upon a Northern Light - 2013
- Me and You and the Red Canoe - 2017
- I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree - 2020
- When I Listen to Silence - 2022
- Skating Wild on an Inland Sea - 2023
- The Best Emma Ever - 2025
- The Lightkeeper's Daughters - 2017
- ^ Gary Rinne, "Thunder Bay author's book wins two national literary awards". TBNewsWatch.com, November 13, 2024.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2024.
- ^ "Jean E. Pendziwol and Jack Wong among winners for Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, October 29, 2024.
- ^ Ahearn, Victoria (October 2, 2013). "Governor General Literary Award finalists announced (updated)". The Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on October 11, 2013.
- ^ "TD honours excellence in children's literature". Canada NewsWire, September 3, 2014.
- ^ "Good choices for your time in the sunshine". Hamilton Spectator, July 14, 2017.
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| 1980s | |
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| 1990s |
- Paul Morin, The Orphan Boy (1990)
- Joanne Fitzgerald, Doctor Kiss Says Yes (1991)
- Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales (1992)
- Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming (1993)
- Murray Kimber, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story (1994)
- Ludmila Zeman, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (1995)
- Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift (1996)
- Barbara Reid, The Party (1997)
- Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes (1998)
- Gary Clement, The Great Poochini (1999)
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| 2000s |
- Marie-Louise Gay, Yuck, A Love Story (2000)
- Mireille Levert, An Island in the Soup (2001)
- Wallace Edwards, Alphabeasts (2002)
- Allen Sapp, The Song Within My Heart (2003)
- Stéphane Jorisch, Jabberwocky (2004)
- Rob Gonsalves, Imagine a Day (2005)
- Leo Yerxa, Ancient Thunder (2006)
- Duncan Weller, The Boy from the Sun (2007)
- Stéphane Jorisch, The Owl and the Pussycat (2008)
- Jirina Marton, Bella's Tree (2009)
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| 2010s |
- Jon Klassen, Cats' Night Out (2010)
- Cybèle Young, Ten Birds (2011)
- Isabelle Arsenault, Virginia Wolf (2012)
- Matt James, Northwest Passage (2013)
- Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer (2014)
- JonArno Lawson, Sidewalk Flowers (2015)
- Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden (2016)
- David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone (2017)
- Jillian Tamaki, They Say Blue (2018)
- Sydney Smith, Small in the City (2019)
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| 2020s | |
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