 Sarah Ellis has written many young adult novels, including Pick-Up Sticks, winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, Out of the Blue, which received the Mr. Christie's Book Award, and The Baby Project, which won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Book Prize. In 1995 Sarah was honoured with the Vicky Metcalf Award for her outstanding body of work. In addition to her own writing, Sarah works as a librarian and reviews children’s literature for various publications.
Sarah's mother grew up in small-town Saskatchewan, and her stories of her childhood inspired Sarah to write A Prairie as Wide as the Sea. While doing research for the book, Sarah was surprised to discover a letter in a 1927 newspaper that her mother had written. Sarah's mother had died decades earlier, so finding this letter from her mother, then a girl herself, was "a gift."”
Sarah lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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