Karleen Bradford Explained

Karleen Bradford
Birth Date:	16 December 1936
Birth Place:	Toronto, Ontario
Occupation:	Author
Genre:	Children's Literature

Karleen Bradford (born December 16, 1936) is a Canadian children's author.

Bradford's novel Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage is a historical novel about a Loyalist family in the United States after the American Revolution. ^[1]

Personal

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bradford moved to Argentina as a child. She returned to Canada to attend university, and after graduation, she spent 34 years in different parts of the world as a wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She currently resides in Owen Sound, Ontario.^[2]

Published Books

• A Year for Growing (1977) - republished as Wrong Again Robby in 1983
• The Other Elizabeth (1982)
• I Wish There Were Unicorns (1983)
• The Stone in the Meadow (1983)
• The Haunting at Cliff House (1985)
• The Nine Days Queen (1986)
• Windward Island (1989) - winner of the 1990 Max and Greta Ebel Award
• There Will be Wolves (1992) - winner of the 1993 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award
• Thirteenth Child (1994)
• Animal Heroes (1995)
• Write Now! (1996)
• Shadows on a Sword (1996)
• More Animal Heroes (1996)
• Dragonfire (1997)
• A different Kind of Companion (1998)
• Lionheart's Scribe (1999)
• Whisperings of Magic (2001)
• Dear Canada

With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald, Johnstown, Quebec, 1783 (2002)

• Angeline (2004)
• You Can't Rush a Cat (2004)
• The Scarlet Cross (2006)
• Dragonmaster (2009)

Notes and References

1. [Ruskin Bond]
2. News: Karleen Bradford. 2020-10-29. HarperCollins. en.