Kit Pearson

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**Kit Pearson**
Born:	April 30, 1947 (age 59) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation:	Children's novelist
Nationality:	Canadian
Debut works:	The Daring Game
Influences:	L.M. Montgomery

Kathleen Margaret Pearson is a Canadian writer and winner of the Governor General's Award.

She was born in Edmonton, Alberta and spent her childhood between that city and Vancouver, British Columbia. As a high-school student, she returned to Vancouver to be educated at Crofton House School. She obtained a degree in English Literature at the University of Alberta, and spent several years following the degree doing odd jobs or travelling in Europe.

In 1975, she began her Library degree at the University of British Columbia and took her first jobs in that field in Ontario. She later obtained an M.A. at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature in Boston. Returning to Vancouver, she completed her first novel "The Daring Game" which was published by Penguin Books.

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 War Guests Trilogy.

Pearson now lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

[edit] Awards

Governor General's Award for Awake and Dreaming
Vicky Metcalf Award for a body of work
Mr. Christie's Book Award, for The Sky is Falling
The"Vlag en Wimpel" prize for the Dutch edition of The Sky is Falling.
Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award, for A Handful of Time and The Sky is Falling
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, for The Sky is Falling and The Lights Go On Again

[edit] Bibliography

The Daring Game (1986)
A Handful of Time (1987)
The Sky is Falling (1989)
The Singing Basket (1990)
Looking at the Moon (1991)
The Lights Go On Again (1993)
Awake and Dreaming (1996)
This Land (1998; editor)
The War Guests Trilogy (1999)
Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt (2002) (Dear Canada series)