![]() | LINDA GRANFIELD |
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Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Place of residence: Etobicoke, Ontario
As a high-school student in Melrose, Massachusetts, Linda Granfield worked on school and community newspapers, interviewing people and writing articles, an activity she thoroughly enjoyed. Two university degrees later, she came to Canada to study for her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Although she had not planned to stay, she met and married her husband, a Canadian citizen, and has been here ever since. An interest in Canadian children's literature, coupled with her love of writing, parlayed into work writing book reviews and articles on Canadian authors and illustrators. She has also done research for educational children's books, compiled bibliographies for teacher-resource books, and written and co-authored a number of non-fiction books for children. When researching a topic for one of her children's books, she likes to look at unusual sources, such as postcards, and to interview old people. There is such a wealth of information available to researchers that she finds it a challenge to stop doing the research and to start writing the book. Once the research is done, she prepares an outline and a first draft, followed by several more drafts until the book is ready for publication.
1984, The Year I Was Born: A Daily Record of Events. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1996.
48 p.: col. ill.; 25 cm
ISBN 1550743090 (pbk.)
1987, The Year I Was Born: A Daily Record of Events. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Toronto: Kids Can Press, c1994.
28 p.: col. ill.; 25 cm.
ISBN 1550741446
1988, The Year I Was Born: A Daily Record of Events. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995.
1 v. (unpaged): col. ill., ports.; 25 cm.
ISBN 1550741926
All About Niagara Falls: Fascinating Facts, Dramatic Discoveries. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1988.
79 p.: ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.
ISBN 0921103395 (pbk.)
ISBN 0921103506 (bound)
Amazing Grace: The Story of the Hymn. Illustrated by Janet Wilson. Toronto: Tundra Books, c1997.
30 p.: ill., music; 21 cm.
ISBN 0887763898 (bound)
ISBN 0887763901 (pbk.)
Canada Votes: How We Elect Our Government. Illustrated by Craig Terlson. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1994 (c1990).
64 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
ISBN 1550742507
Circus. Toronto: A Groundwood Book, Douglas & McIntyre, c1997.
96 p.: ill., 24 x 26 cm.
ISBN 0888992920
Cowboy: A Kid's Album. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, c1993.
96 p.: ill. (some col.); 25 x 27 cm.
ISBN 1550542303
Cowboy: An Album. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1994 (c1993).
96 p.: ill. (some col.), ports.; 24 x 27 cm.
ISBN 0395684307
(American edition of Cowboy: A Kid's Album)
Dernière édition! Translated by Nicole Ferron; illustrated by Bill Slavin. Saint-Lambert, Québec: Héritage, c1994.
72 p.: ill.; 28 cm. (Héritage jeunesse)
ISBN 2762576857
(French edition of Extra! Extra!: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Newspapers)
Extra! Extra!: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Newspapers. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Toronto: Kids Can Press, c1993.
72 p.: ill.; 28 cm.
ISBN 1550741225
In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae. Illustrated by Janet Wilson. Toronto: Stoddart, 1996 (c1995).
32 p.: ill. (some col.); 24 x 28 cm.
ISBN 0773729917
The Make-Your-Own Button Book. By Andrea Wayne-von Konigslow and Linda Granfield; illustrated by Andrea Wayne-von Konigslow. Toronto: Somerville House Publishing, c1993.
32 p.: col. ill.; 31 cm.
ISBN 0921051891
Postcards Talk. Illustrated by Mark Thurman. Markham, Ont.: Pembroke Publishers, c1998.
32 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
ISBN 1551380331 (pbk.)
Silent Night: The Song from Heaven. Illustrated by Nellie and Ernst Hofer. Toronto: Tundra Books, c1997.
24 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
ISBN 0887763952
Prepared 24.06.96
Bibliography revised 09.04.98