THORNHILL Jan

This Ontario, author, illustrator and designer 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.

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Content description nature & Cover Book front:

The Wildlife ABC: A Nature Alphabet Book. Owlkids Books Inc., 2012.

Content description nature & Cover book wrap around:

Wild In The City. Owl Books Ltd., 1995.

Content history nature & Book wrap around & dust jacket wrap around :

The Tragic Tale Of The Great Auk. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2016.

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The Tragic Tale Of The Great Auk. Groundwood /House of Anansi, 2016: “Biography”: Back flap of dust jacket.