Eric Walters

Eric Robert Walters, (born March 3, 1957) is a Canadian author of young adult fiction and picture books. He has written over 130 books.

He is a three-time winner of both the Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award and Red Maple Award. His books have been translated and published in several other countries.

In April 2010, Walters walked across the Sahara before writing Just Deserts. With his son, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for Between Heaven and Earth. He played with tigers before writing Tiger by the Tail.

Awards Walters's works have won or been nominated for the following awards:

Book Award(s) Stars Silver Birch Award, 1997 Blue Heron Book Award, 1997 Children's Choice Award, Canadian Children's Book Centre Trapped in Ice Silver Birch Award, 1997 CBC Choice Award, 1997 Ruth Schwartz Award nomination, 1997 War of the Eagles Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards - Children’s Picture Book, 1999 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice commendation, 1998 UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance nomination, 2003 Snow Willow Award, 2002 The Bully Boys CBC Choice Award, 2002 Red Maple Award shortlist, 2002 Camp X Silver Birch Award, 2003 Arthur Ellis Award - Juvenile shortlist, 2003 We All Fall Down Red Maple Winner, 2006 Safe as Houses Red Maple Winner, 2007 The King of Jam Sandwiches Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, 2020

Published works Fiction Stand Your Ground (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1994) Stars (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1996) Trapped in Ice (Penguin 1997) War of the Eagles (Orca 1998) Diamonds in the Rough (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1998) The Hydrofoil Mystery (Penguin 1999) Caged Eagles (Orca 2000) Rebound (Stoddart 2000) The Bully Boys (Penguin 2000) Northern Exposures (HarperCollins 2001) Camp X (Penguin 2002) Ricky (HarperCollins 2002) Tiger Town (Dundurn 2003) Run (Penguin 2003) Overdrive (Orca 2004) Grind (Orca 2004) Death by Exposure (Dundurn 2004) Underdog (Orca 2004) I've Got An Idea (HarperCollins 2004) The True Story of Santa Claus (2005) Juice (Orca 2005) Elixir (Penguin 2005) Triple Threat (Orca 2005) Stuffed (Orca 2006) Laggan Lard Butts (Orca 2006) We All Fall Down (Doubleday 2006) Shattered (Penguin 2006) House Party (Orca 2007) Bifocal (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2007) Safe as Houses (Doubleday 2007) Tiger Trap (Dundurn 2007) Sketches (Penguin 2007) Boot Camp (Orca 2007) The Falls (Penguin 2008) In A Flash (Orca 2008) When Elephants Fight (Orca, 2008) Voyageur (Penguin, 2008) The Pole (Penguin 2008) Splat! (Orca 2008) Alexandria of Africa (Doubleday 2008) Special Edward (Orca, 2009) Black & White (Penguin, 2009) Tell Me Why (Doubleday, 2009) Wounded (Penguin, 2009) United We Stand (Doubleday, 2009) Shell Shocked (Penguin, 2009) Wave (Doubleday, 2009) Beverly Hills Maasai (Doubleday, 2010) Branded (Orca, 2010) Trouble in Paradise (Penguin, 2010) Home Team (Orca, 2010) Fly Boy (Penguin, 2010) Shaken (Doubleday, January 2011) Catboy (Orca, September 2011) Just Deserts (Penguin, September 2011) Between Heaven and Earth (2012) The Matato Ride (Spring 2012) The Taming (Spring 2012) with Teresa Toten End of Days (Doubleday, September 2012) Power Play (Spring 2013) Tagged (Fall 2013) My Name is Blessing (Fall 2013) The Rule of Three (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2014) Walking Home (Doubleday, 2014) Saving Sammy (Orca 2014) The Power of Three (Razorbill 2014) Sleeper (Orca 2014) Hope Springs (Tundra, September 2014) Regenesis (Doubleday Canada 2015) The Fight of Power (Razorbill 2015) The Will to Survive (Razorbill 2016) 90 Days of Different (Orca 2017) Always With You (Nimbus Publishing, 2019) The Boy Who Moved Christmas (Nimbus Publishing, 2020) Don't Stand So Close to Me (Orca 2020) The King of Jam Sandwiches (Orca 2020) Bear in the Family (Orca 2022)

Non-fiction Improve Your Child's Spelling 1 (1991) (with Norm Rippon) Improve Your Child's Spelling 2 (1993) (with Norm Rippon) When Elephants Fight (2008) (with Adrian Bradbury) Tell Me Why (2009) From the Heart of Africa: a Book of Wisdom (2018)