Nan Gregory
Nan Gregory's previous children's picture books include the international best–seller How Smudge Came and the critically acclaimed Wild Girl and Gran. Nan Gregory is a professional storyteller and has performed in schools, libraries, hospitals, parks and theatres, at conferences and festivals, and from the back of a horse–drawn sleigh. Her career has taken her across Canada and to the United States, Japan and New Zealand. Her writing has earned her the Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award and a Canadian Children's Book Centre starred Our Choice Ward for Wild Girl and Gran; the Mr. Christie's Book Award for Best Canadian Children's Book, an American Booksellers Association Pick of the Lists citation, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, and a Canadian Children's Book Centre's Our Choice Award for How Smudge Came.