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Kathy Stinson

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Kathy
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Stinson
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Ontario
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Kathy Stinson grew up in Toronto, sorted mail, taught school and waited tables before figuring out, while at home with her two children, that what she really wanted to do was write. In the years since, she has published more than 50 titles – picture books, young adult novels, historical fiction, short stories, biography, and other non-fiction. Mother, stepmother, and grandmother, Kathy currently lives in Rockwood, Ontario with her partner, Peter Carver and their Siberian cat, Arlo.
Publications
PICTURE BOOKS

If You Were Here (ill Maya McKibbin) Greystone Kids 2025

A Tulip in Winter: A Story About Folk Artist Maud Lewis (ill Lauren Soloy) Greystone Kids 2023

The Girl Who Loved Giraffes and Became the World's First Giraffologist (ill Francois Thisdale)
Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2021

The Bare Naked Book (ill Melissa Cho)
Annick Press 2021

The Lady with the Books: A Story Inspired by the Remarkable Work of Jella Lepman (ill Marie Lafrance)
Kids Can Press 2020

The Dog Who Wanted To Fly (ill Brandon James Scott)
Annick Press 2019

The Dance of the Violin (ill Dusan Petricic)
Annick Press 2017

Harry and Walter (ill Qin Leng)
Annick Press 2016

The Man with the Violin (ill Dusan Petricic)
Annick Press 2013

Highway of Heroes
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2010

A Pocket Can Have A Treasure In It (ill Deirdre Betteridge)
Annick Press, 2008

Big or Little? (25th anniversary ed) (ill Toni Goffe)
Annick Press, 2009

Mom And Dad Don't Live Together Any More (ill Vian Oelefson)
Annick Press, 2007

The Bare Naked Book (20th anniversary ed) (ill Heather Collins)
Annick Press, 2006

Red Is Best (25th anniversary ed) (ill Robin Baird Lewis)
Annick Press, 2006

I Feel Different: A Book About Being Adopted (ill Robin Baird Lewis)
WPS, 1998

Those Green Things (ill Deirdre Betteridge)
Annick Press, 1995

Who Is Sleeping In Aunty's Bed? (ill Robin Baird Lewis)
Oxford University Press, 1991

The Dressed Up Book (ill Heather Collins)
Annick Press, 1990

Teddy Rabbit (ill Stephane Poulin)
Annick Press, 1988

NON-FICTION

A Tulip in Winter: A Story About Folk Artist Maud Lewis (ill Lauren Soloy) Greystone Kids 2023

The Girl Who Loved Giraffes and Became the World's First Giraffologist (ill Francois Thisdale)
Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2021

Writing Picture Books: What Works and What Doesn't
Self-published e-book, 2013
Pembroke Publishers, 1991

Highway of Heroes
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2010

Love Every Leaf: The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Tundra Books, 2008

Writing Your Best Picture Book Ever (ill Alan Daniel)
Pembroke Publishers, 1994

The Fabulous Ball Book (ill Heather Collins)
Oxford University Press, 1993

FICTION

What Happened to Ivy
Second Story Press, 2012

Marie-Claire
Penguin Canada, 2010

101 Ways to Dance
Second Story Press, 2007

One More Clue
James Lorimer & Company, 2006

The Great Bike Race
James Lorimer & Company, 2006

Seven Clues
James Lorimer & Company, 2006

Marie-Claire 4: Angels in Winter
Penguin Canada, 2004

Marie-Claire 3: Visitors
Penguin Canada, 2003

Becoming Ruby
Penguin Canada, 2003

Marie-Claire 2: A Season of Sorrow
Penguin Canada, 2002

Marie-Claire 1: Dark Spring
Penguin Canada, 2001

King of the Castle
Second Story Press, 2000

One Year Commencing
Thistledown Press, 1997

Fish House Secrets
Thistledown Press, 1992

See website for stories in anthologies.
Awards
Toronto IODE Award for Red Is Best
TD Children's Literature Award for The Man with the Violin
Other Memberships
TWUC, CCBC
    

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