Jean Little

Biography

Born in Taiwan, celebrated children’s author Jean Little grew up in Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto with an honors degree in English. A member of the Order of Canada, Little has received six honorary degrees and was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages and have won numerous awards, including a Canada Council Children’s Literature Award (now known as the Governor General’s Literary Award), a cla Book of the Year, the Little, Brown Children’s Book Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award. She lives in Guelph, Ontario.