Hugh Brewster Explained

Birth Date:	May 26, 1950
Genre:	Children's nonfiction
Birth Place:	London, England
Nationality:	Canadian
Occupation:	Author and editor
Education:	University of Guelph (BA)
Awards:	Silver Birch Award (1998) Information Book Award (2005) Norma Fleck Award (2008)

Hugh Brewster (born May 26, 1950, in London, England)^[1] is a Canadian writer of nonfiction books for children.

Biography

Brewster was born May 26, 1950, in London, England^[2] to Ormond Macmillan and Anne Brewster. He has two older brothers and a younger sister. The family moved to Scotland when Brewster was two, then immigrated to Georgetown, Ontario in 1956.

Brewster received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in theatre from the University of Guelph. Following graduation, he was a founding writer for the LGBT magazine The Body Politic.^[3] He served as an editor with Scholastic Canada from 1972 to 1981, then continued as an editor with Scholastic in New York City from 1981 to 1984. Beginning in 1984, he worked as an editorial director as Madison Press Books in Toronto.

He published his first children's book, Anastasia's Album, in 1996.^[4]

Awards and honours

Awards for Brewster's writing!Year!Title!Award!Result!Ref.

1997	Anastasia's Album	ALSC Notable Children's Books	Selection	^[5]
1998		Silver Birch Award	Winner	^[6]
1999		Red Cedar Book Award	Winner	^[7]
2000	882 ½ Amazing Answers to Your Questions about the Titanic	Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers	Selection	^[8]
2005	On Juno Beach	Information Book Award	Winner	^[9]
2007	Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose	Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature	Finalist	^[10]
2008		TD Canadian Children's Literature Award	Finalist	^[11]
2008	At Vimy Ridge	Norma Fleck Award	Winner	^[12] ^[13]
2012	Prisoner of Dieppe	Hackmatack Children's Choice Award for English Fiction	Winner	^[14] ^[15] ^[16]
2015	From Vimy to Victory	Norma Fleck Award	Finalist	^[17]
		Silver Birch Award	Nominee
		TD Canadian Children's Literature Award	Finalist	^[18]

Publications

• The Complete Hoser's Handbook, Prentice-Hall Canada, 1983.
• Anastasia's Album: The Last Tsar's Youngest Daughter Tells Her Own Story, Hyperion, 1996.
• Inside the Titanic, Little, Brown and Company, 1997.
• 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions about the Titanic, with Laurie Coulter, paintings by Ken Marschall, Scholastic, 1998.
• To Be a Princess: The Fascinating Lives of Real Princesses, with Laurie Coulter, illustrated by Laurie McGaw, HarperCollins, 2001.
• On Juno Beach: Canada's D Day Heroes, Scholastic Canada, 2004.
• At Vimy Ridge: Canada's Greatest World War I Victory, Scholastic Canada, 2007.
• The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George, illustrated by Eric Velasquez, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2006.
• Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting, illustrated with paintings by John Singer Sargent, Kids Can Press, 2007.
• Breakout Dinosaurs: Canada's Coolest, Scariest Ancient Creatures Return!, with the curators of the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated by Alan Barnard, Whitfield Editions, 2007.
• Dieppe: Canada's Darkest Day of World War II, Scholastic Canada, 2009.
• Dinosaurs in Your Backyard: The Coolest, Scariest Creatures Ever Found in the USA!, with Alan Barnard, Harry N. Abrams, 2009.
• Prisoner of Dieppe: World War II, Alistair Morrison, Occupied France, 1942, Scholastic Canada, 2010.
• Deadly Voyage: RMS Titanic, Jamie Laidlaw, April 14, 1912, Scholastic Canada, 2011.
• Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World, Crown Publishing Group, 2012.
• From Vimy to Victory: Canada's Fight to the Finish in World War I, Scholastic Canada, 2014.
• Unsinkable Lucile: How a Farm Girl Became the Queen of Fashion and Survived the Titanic, illus. by Laurie McGaw, Firefly Books, 2022.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brewster, Hugh 1950– . 2023-05-16 . Encyclopedia.com.
2. Web site: CM Magazine Profile: Hugh Brewster. . 2023-05-16 . Canadian Review of Materials.
3. Lara Purvis, "Body Politicker turned kids’ author gets nod from GG". Xtra Magazine, January 20, 2008.
4. [Val Ross]
5. Web site: February 11, 2010 . Anastasia's Album Awards & Grants . 2023-05-16 . American Library Association.
6. Web site: 1998 Silver Birch Award Recipient: Hugh Brewster . 2023-05-16 . Canadian Children's Book Centre . en-US.
7. Web site: 1999 Red Cedar Book Award Recipient: Hugh Brewster . 2023-05-16 . Canadian Children's Book Centre . en-US.
8. Web site: 2006-09-29 . Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers . 2023-05-16 . Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) . en.
9. Web site: 2005 Information Book Award Recipient: Hugh Brewster . 2023-05-16 . Canadian Children's Book Centre . en-US.
10. Vanessa Farquharson, "Heavyweights vie for fiction prize; Two Islanders in the running for Governor General's Literary Awards". Victoria Times-Colonist, October 17, 2007.
11. Web site: Previous TD Canadian Children's Literature Award Winners and Finalists . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221208100330/http://bookcentre.ca/td-previous-winners-and-finalists . 2022-12-08 . 2023-05-14 . . en-US.
12. Web site: Previous Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction Winners and Finalists . October 3, 2022 . The Canadian Children's Book Centre.
13. Web site: 2008 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction Recipient: Hugh Brewster . 2023-05-16 . Canadian Children's Book Centre . en-US.
14. Web site: Former Winners . 2023-05-15 . The Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award.
15. Web site: Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award Archives . 2023-05-16 . . en-US.
16. Web site: 2012 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award Recipient: Hugh Brewster . 2023-05-16 . Canadian Children's Book Centre . en-US.
17. Web site: Robertson . Becky . 2015-09-10 . Marianne Dubuc, Eric Walters, Cybele Young among 2015 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards finalists . 2023-05-16 . . en.
18. Web site: 2015-09-08 . Finalists Announced for the 2015 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221128124753/http://bookcentre.ca/news/finalists_announced_2015_canadian_childrens_book_centre_awards . 2022-11-28 . 2023-05-15 . . en-US.