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Author

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 and illustrator Ian Wallace was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Falls is a Canadian city on the Niagara River in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario. The municipality was incorporated on June 12, 1903...

, and grew up in a household of readers in which a typical winter's evening was spent listening to The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

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After graduating from public school, he moved to Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art, where he received an associateship and a scholarship for a year of post-graduate studies.

Since that time he has written and illustrated several hugely successful books that have won him many awards. He is probably one of Canada's most travelled writer/illustrators, having read to over 800,000 kids across Canada, the United States

United States

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, Australia

Australia

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, Great Britain

Great Britain

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, and, in 2003, China

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He is published in Canada by Groundwood Books and in the United States by Roaring Brook Press. He currently lives in Boston

Boston

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with his wife Deb Wallace.

Works

Some of his published works include:

• The Man Who Walked the Earth (2003);
• The True Story of Trapper Jack's Left Big Toe (2002);
• Duncan's Way (2000);
• A Winter's Tale (1997);
• Sarah and the People of Sand River (1996), written by W. D. Valgardson;
• The Mummer's Song (1993), written by Bud Davidge;
• Mr. Kneebone's New Digs (1991);
• The Name of the Tree: a Bantu Tale (1989), written by Celia Barker Lottridge;
• Architect of the Moon (1988), written by Tim Wynne-Jones;
• Morgan the Magnificent (1987);
• Very Last First Time (1985), written by Jan Andrews;
• Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance (1984);
• The Sandwich (1975), with Angela Wood.

External links

• http://www.groundwoodbooks.com/gw_authors.cfm?author_id=191&type=illustrators&alpha_view=W Groundwood Books: Author biography