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Budge Wilson


Canada (1927 - 2021)

Budge Wilson was the author of the acclaimed book The Leaving, a short story collection chosen by the American Library Association as one of the 75 Best Children's Books of the last 25 years, winner of the American Library Association award for Best Book for Young Adults, and the School Library Journal award for Best Book of the Year. A Nova Scotia native and resident, Ms. Wilson worked as a teacher, commercial artist, photographer, and fitness instructor.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction
 
Novels
   Breakdown (1989)
   Madame Belzile and Ramsay Hitherton-Hobbs (1990)
   Oliver's Wars (1992)
   Sharla (1997)
   Before Green Gables (2008)
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Collections
   The Leaving (1990)
   The Courtship (1994)
   Cordelia Clark (1994)
   The Dandelion Garden (1995)
   Mothers and Other Strangers (1996)
   Fractures (2002)
   Friendships (2006)
   After Swissair (poems) (2018)
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Series contributed to
Our Canadian Girl: Izzie
   1. The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (2002)
   2. Trongate Fury (2005)
   3. Patricia's Secret (2005)
   4. Homecoming (2006)
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Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 


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