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Beryl Young

Author

1906 Stephens Street
Vancouver, BC
V6K 3V9
Phone: 604 733-0332
Fax: 604 733-0384
Email:
Web: www.berylyoung.com

Born: November 8, 1934. Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
Widow, 3 children, 3 grandchildren

Biography

Beryl has published articles, poetry and translations in Canadian magazines and journals and has appeared on CBC radio and television. In 1995 she won the People's Poem Award in the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Letter, and the same year was writer-in-residence at Wallace Stegner House in Saskatchewan. In 1997 she held the same position at the Wurlitzer Foundation for the Arts in New Mexico. Beryl has produced recordings for children including "Lullabies and Laughter for the Lullaby Lady" which became a Gold Record in 1998.

Published Works

Follow the Elephant, Ronsdale Press, 2010
Charlie, A Home Child's Life in Canada, Key Porter Books, 2009
Wishing Star Summer, Raincoast Books, 2001
Articles, stories and poems in Canadian magazines

Awards

Wishing Star Summer: Our Choice book by the Canadian Children's Book Centre 2002
Named a Recommended Book by the Calgary Board of Education 2002
Shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily award (B.C. 2003), The Diamond Willow award (Saskatchewan 2003-4) and the Red Cedar award (B.C. 2003-4)

Other Memberships

Writers Union of Canada, IBBY, CWILL. Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable, Federation of BC Writers

Available For

Elementary school presentations: Grades 4 to 7
"Real Life into a Real Book: the Stories Around you:
"Telling my father's story (When he didn't want me to)


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