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词条 Dorothy Joan Harris
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  1. Selected works[3]

  2. References

Dorothy Joan Harris (born February 14, 1931) is a Japanese-born Canadian writer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She mainly writes children's books.[1]

The daughter of Hubert and Alice Langley, she was born Dorothy Joan Langley in Kobe and came with her family to St. Catherines, Ontario in 1938. She received a degree in modern languages from the University of Toronto in 1952 and went on to teach elementary school in France and Japan. She returned to Toronto in 1954 and married Alan Harris in 1955; the couple had two children. From 1955 to 1961, Harris was an editor for Copp Clark Publishers. From 1977 to 1996, she was a public library assistant.[1][3][2]

She contributed to the 1999 anthology Too Young to Fight: Memories from our Youth During World War, which received the BolognaRagazzi Award at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Her 2004 book A very unusual dog was nominated for a Chocolate Lily Award.[3]

Selected works[3]

  • The House Mouse, picture book (1973)
  • The School Mouse, picture book (1977)
  • Don't Call Me Sugarbaby!, informational novel (1983), diabetes, also available in Braille
  • Even If It Kills Me, informational novel (1987), anorexia nervosa
  • Four Seasons for Toby, picture book (1987), translated into French as Theo et les Quarte Saisons
  • Speedy Sam, young reader (1989), translated into French as Cleo la Souris Expres
  • No Dinosaurs in the Park, picture book (1990), translated into French as Pas de Dinosaurs dans le parc
  • Annabel the Detective: The Case of the Missing Tooth, young reader (1991)
  • Ellen: the wishing time (2004), part of the Our Canadian Girl: Ellen series
  • A Very Unusual Dog (2004), Markham, ON: North Winds Press[4]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.writersunion.ca/member/dorothyjoan-harris |title=Dorothy Joan Harris |publisher=Writers' Union of Canada}}
2. ^{{cite book |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3417300084/harris-dorothy-joan-1931.html |title=Harris, Dorothy Joan |work=Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series |year=2005}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/content/osborne/pdfs/dorothy-joan-harris-2010-finding-guide-updated-may-2014.pdf |title=Dorothy Joan Harris Fonds |publisher=Toronto Public Library}}
4. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.scholastic.ca/books/view/a-very-unusual-dog | title=A Very Unusual Dog | publisher=Scholastic Canada | year=2004 | isbn=978-0439937184 | others=Illustrated by Kim Lafave}}
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