THORNHILL Jan
This graduate of the Ontario College of Art was born 1955 in Sudbury Ontario.
She is an author, illustrator and designer and focuses on the natural world in her picture books.
For I Found A Dead Bird, she won the National Publications Gold Award, the Norma Fleck Award For Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, and Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award.
For The Wildlife 1,2,3., she was given the UNICEF- Ezra Jack Keats International Award for Excellence in Children’s Book Illustration.
She has won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature For Young People.
WORK:
WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content description nature & Cover Book front:
The Wildlife ABC: A Nature Alphabet Book. Owlkids Books Inc., 2012.
Content description nature & Cover book front & back:
Wild In The City. Owl Books Ltd., 1995.
Content history nature & Cover book wrap around & dust jacket wrap around :
The Tragic Tale Of The Great Auk. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2016.
PERIODICAL TEXT:
Content story:
This Magazine, August 1985: “Mumbo Jumbo”. 32-36,
ILLUSTRATOR:
PERIODICAL TEXT:
Content essay:
Canadian Forum, December 1985 – Supplement: The Revolving Door, Women, Work, and Equality: “Whiter Whites and Brighter Lives”. Writ., Dr. D. Feldberg: S8.
This Magazine, March/April 1992: “Practicing What They Preach at Tomkins Institute”. Writ., S. Fraser: 26.
Content program preview:
| Radio Guide, …: “…”. …. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| …, 6-2, February 1986. “Ideas – Fair Comment”. Writ., unidentified: 17.
…,6-8, August 1986. “Festival of Sound”. Writ., unidentified: 12. …, 7-3, March 1987: “Animal Crackers”. Writ., various: 40. …, 7-4, April 1987: “Wild Frontiers”. Writ., various: 40 …, 7-5, May 1987: “Food To Fit Your Mood”. Writ., Arthur Black: 40. |
Content story:
This Magazine, December 1985: “Another Double”. Writ., Diane Hartog: 20-21, 22, 23.
NEWSPAPER:
Content essay:
Toronto Star – The City, 29 October 1978: “They Won’t Like This, Bruce”. Writ., Unknown.
SOURCE:
Article book:
The Tragic Tale Of The Great Auk. Groundwood /House of Anansi, 2016: “Biography”: Back flap of dustjacket.
GALLERY:
The City, Toronto Star Sunday Magazine, 29 October 1978.
Canadian Forum, December 1985 – Supplement: The Revolving Door, Women, Work, and Equality: S8.
This Magazine, August 1985: 32.
Wild In The City.1995: From cover book front.