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Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford née Every (11 May 1918 – 20 April 1984) was a British Canadian writer. Life and workBorn in Scotland and brought up in various parts of the United Kingdom, she attended St. George's School, Edinburgh, and Harrogate Ladies College. She also attended schools in France and Germany. In 1941 she married Dr. David Burnford, with whom she had three children. During World War II she worked as a volunteer ambulance driver.[1] In 1951 she emigrated to Canada, settling in Port Arthur, Ontario.{{clarify|date=July 2015 |reason=did Sheila and David Burnford separate then?}} Burnford is best remembered for The Incredible Journey, published by Hodder & Stoughton with illustrations by Carl Burger in 1960. The story of three animal pets traveling in the wilderness won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1963 and the ALA Aurianne Award in 1963 as the best book on animal life written for children ages 8–14. It is marketed for children but Burnford has stated that it was not intended as a children's book.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} It was a modest success commercially and became a bestseller after release of the 1963 Disney film, The Incredible Journey (which was remade in 1993 as The Incredible Journey). Another book, Bel Ria, about a dog's survival in wartime, was based on her own experiences as an ambulance driver.[2] Burnford later wrote other books on Canadian topics, including One Woman's Arctic (1973) about her two summers in Pond Inlet, Nunavut on Baffin Island with Susan Ross. She traveled by komatik, a traditional Inuit dog sled, assisted in archaeological excavation, having to thaw the land inch by inch, ate everything offered to her, and saw the migration of the narwhals. She died of cancer in the village of Bucklers Hard in Hampshire at the age of 65.[3] Works
Library of Congress and WorldCat library records do not clearly show any other works published as books (six, as of 2018). WorldCat records show four of Burnford's books published in the US as Atlantic Monthly Press books, then an imprint of Little, Brown. See also{{Portal bar |Children's literature |Canada }}References1. ^{{cite web|title=Author: Sheila burnford|url=http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/authors/sheila-burnford|publisher=The Random House Group|accessdate=21 September 2015}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Sheila Burnford|url=http://www.nyrb.com/collections/sheila-burnford|publisher=New York Review Books|accessdate=21 September 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Scott|first1=Marylynn|title=Burnford, Sheila|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sheila-burnford/|publisher=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=21 September 2015}}
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