Jan Thornhill

Jan Thornhill is an author, illustrator and designer who brings her fascination with the natural world to her books for children. They include I Found a Dead Bird (National Parenting Publications Gold Award, Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award); The Wildlife 123 (UNICEF-Ezra Jack Keats International Award for Excellence in Children’s Book Illustration, Governor General’s Award finalist); and The Wildlife ABC (Governor General’s Award finalist). Jan recently won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. She spends her spare time in the woods obsessively collecting and cataloguing wild mushrooms and slime molds.

Books by Jan Thornhill

Winter's Coming

I Am Josephine

The Triumphant Tale of the House Sparrow

The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk

Is This Panama?

The Wildlife 123

The Wildlife ABC

Who Wants Pizza?

This Is My Planet

Folktails

I Found a Dead Bird

Before & After

The Rumor

An Ordinary Star

The Wildlife ABC & 123

A Forest Burning

Drought & Other Stories

Missing Persons