Jan Thornhill facts for kids

Jan Thornhill (born in 1955 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian writer and artist. She creates wonderful educational books for children. Her books teach kids about science and the natural world. She also draws the pictures for many of her own stories.

Jan Thornhill has won many important awards for her work. In 2015, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. This special award celebrates a writer's entire career in books for young people. She also won the Norma Fleck Award in 2007. This was for her book I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids’ Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death. This book helps kids understand life and death in nature.

Jan Thornhill studied art at the Ontario College of Art. She often illustrates her own books. In 1990, she won UNICEF's Ezra Jack Yeats International Award for her illustrations in The Wildlife 123. She has also been nominated three times for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration. These nominations were for The Wildlife ABC (1988), The Wildlife 123 (1989), and The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk (2017).

She has also written a book of short stories for adults called Drought. This book was recognized in 2001. She has also drawn pictures for magazines like The Idler.

Jan Thornhill's Books

Jan Thornhill has written and illustrated many popular books for children. Here are some of her works:

• The Wildlife ABC (1988)
• The Wildlife 123 (1989)
• A Tree in a Forest (1991)
• Crow & Fox and Other Animal Legends (1993)
• Wild in the City (1996)
• Before & After: A Book of Nature Timescapes (1997)
• Drought (2001)
• Folktails: Animal Legends from Around the World (2007)
• This Is My Planet: The Kids' Guide to Global Warming (2007)
• Who Wants Pizza?: The Kids' Guide to the History, Science and Culture of Food (2010)
• Is This Panama? A Migration Story (2013)
• Kyle Goes Alone (2015)
• The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk (2016), which won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award