Kit Pearson gets the Woodcock

“One of BC’s outstanding kidlit/YA authors, Kit Pearson (at right) is the recipient of the 32nd George Woodcock Award, only the second writer for children to get it.FULL STORY

 

Facts for the fragile

May 21st, 2015

As a University of Victoria instructor, Jillian Roberts first co-wrote School Children with HIV/AIDS (Detselig, 1999) with Kathleen Cairns. As a Child and Adolescent psychologist in Victoria, the UVic educational psychologist has since created an app called Facts of Life and written a book for ages 3-to-6, Where Do Babies Come From?: Our First Talk About Birth (Orca $19.95), illustrated by Cindy Revell. It’s the first book in her Just Enough series to include topics such as death, cultural diversity, and parental separation or divorce. As a psychologist she specializes in medically fragile children. 9781459809420

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