Gwen Molnar

Poet, painter and writer of children's fiction, Edmonton-born Gwen Molnar served in the Canadian Navy (WRCNS), graduated from the University of Alberta, and for 23 years lived in Rochester, Minnesota where her husband, George, was a Mayo Clinic consultant and where their two children Jane and Charles were born. Gwen is the author of two poetry collections for children, I Said to Sam, and Animal Rap and Far-Out Fables, three Sebastian First Chapter Books and an Early Chapter Book No Presents Please, and has had poems in several anthologies and magazines. Her work has been read on the CBC, animated on Fred Penner's Place, and read on Sherri Lewis'. Gwen's paintings hang in many public and private collections. She won first prize in the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Contest in 1995, for "Around the World for a Shortcut", was shortlisted for the Alberta Writers Guild's Award for Children's Literature in 1997 for Animal Rap and Far-Out Fables and was awarded the Canadian Authors Association's "Exporting Alberta Award" 2000, for Sebastian's Promise.

 

Awards
Canadian Authors' Association 1995 Poetry Contest, first prize.
Writers Guild of Alberta's R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature, finalist, 1997.

First Prize, Canadian Authors Association Poetry Contest 1995 for Around the World for a Shortcut
Short Listed, Writers Guild of Alberta Children's Literature Award, 1997 for Animal Rap and Far Out Fables
Canadian Authors Association, Exporting Alberta Award, 2000, for Sebastian's Promise

 

Selected Publications
I Said to Sam. (Scholastic, 1996,1987, 1985). ISBN 0-590-71367-1, 0-458-80390-1, 0-88878-368-X
Animal Rap and Far-Out Fables. (Beach Holme Publishers,1996, 1993, 1997). ISBN 0-88878-368-X, 1-895836-39-5
Sebastian and the Holiday Park. (River Books, 1997).

Summer with Sebastian. (Hodgepog, Edmonton, Meadowbrook, 1997, 1999) ISBN 1-895836-39-5, 1-895836-65-4

Sebastian's Promise. (Hodgepog, Edmonton, Roussan, Montreal, 1999, 2000) ISBN 1895836-65-4

No Presents Please. (Roussan, Montreal, 2000)

Sebastian's Collection Connection. (Hodgepog, Vancouver, 2001)

 

Selected Anthologies
New Writing for and About Children. (Quarry Magazine, 1985).
Window of Dreams, Anthology of New Canadian Writing for Children, Methun (Canada) 1986
There Will ALways Be a Sky, Houghton Mifflin (Canada), 1993

New Adventures of Mother Goose

 

Books in Print
Molnar, Gwen
Animal Rap and Far-Our Fables. (Children's Poetry) Beach Holme Publishers, 1996. $8.95 ISBN 0-88878-368-X. $8.95

Summer with Sebastian (First Chapter Book) $4.95

Sebastian's Promise (First Chapter Book) $4.95

No Presents Please (Early Chapter Book) $8.95
Sebastian and the Holiday Park. River Books, 1997.

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