Seton's highly popular Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) influenced Roberts, whose The Kindred of the Wild appeared in 1902 and Red Fox in 1905. ROBERTS and Ernest Thompson SETON gave the animal story its distinctive form. In the last half of the 20th century, authors and illustators have used a variety of genres to reflect the geographical and cultural diversity of Canadian life.Īlthough animals had been mentioned in earlier literature, the works of Sir Charles G.D. At the turn of the century the animal story, the first distinctively Canadian genre, appeared. During the 19th and early 20th centuries the vehicles were generally those fashionable in Great Britain. It was originally a literature in which portrayals of life in the new country - confrontations with and adaptations to the landscape and the native peoples, colonizing the territories and then creating and developing a nation - were in search of appropriate vehicles of expression.
Pearson now lives in Victoria, British Columbia, a few blocks from Ross Bay Cemetery, one of the settings in Awake and Dreaming.Previous Next Children's Literature in EnglishĬhildren's literature in English, literature for children up to early adolescence, has been written since the mid-19th century. Returning to Vancouver, she completed her first novel "The Daring Game" which was published by Penguin Books. at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature in Boston. In 1975, she began her Library degree at the University of British Columbia and took her first jobs in that field in Ontario. She obtained a degree in English Literature at the University of Alberta. As a high-school student, she returned to Vancouver to be educated at Crofton House School. Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and spent her childhood between that city and Vancouver, British Columbia. Pearson is perhaps best known for her linked novels The Sky Is Falling (1989), Looking at the Moon (1991), and The Lights Go on Again (1993), published in 1999 as The Guests of War Trilogy, and Awake and Dreaming (1996), which won the Governor General's Award.
Kathleen Margaret Pearson (born April 30, 1947) is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards.
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