Caroline Adderson

Caroline Adderson is the author of Very Serious Children (Scholastic 2007), a novel for middle readers about two brothers, the sons of clowns, who run away from the circus. I, Bruno (Orca 2007) and Bruno for Real are collections of stories for emergent readers featuring seven year-old Bruno and his true life adventures.
Caroline Adderson also writes for adults and has won two Ethel Wilson Fiction Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, as well as the 2006 Marion Engel Award given annually to an outstanding female writer in mid-career. Her numerous nominations include the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Most recently, Caroline was the Vancouver Public Library's 2008 Writer-in-Residence.
Her eight year-old son Patrick and his many friends inspire her children's writing. Caroline and her family live in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Books by Caroline Adderson

A Way to Be Happy

Off the Record

Izzy's Dog Days of Summer

Babble!

Izzy's Tail of Trouble

Sunny Days Inside

Pierre & Paul: Dragon!

Izzy in the Doghouse

A Russian Sister

It Happened on Sweet Street

Pierre & Paul: Avalanche!

Best Canadian Stories 2019

The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat

Bad Imaginings

Jasper John Dooley: Public Library Enemy #1

Vancouver Vanishes

Jasper John Dooley: Lost and Found

I Love You, One to Ten

Eat, Leo! Eat!

A History of Forgetting

Ellen In Pieces

Jasper John Dooley: You're in Trouble

The Caroline Adderson Library

A Simple Case of Angels

Ellen In Pieces

The Honeyman Festival

Norman, Speak!

Sitting Practice

Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love

Jasper John Dooley: Left Behind

Middle of Nowhere

Jasper John Dooley: Star of the Week

The Sky Is Falling

Film Studies/The Trouble with Marlene

Woodsmen of the West

Bruno for Real

The Journey Prize Stories 19

I, Bruno

Pleased to Meet You

History of Forgetting