Maggie De Vries

Maggie de Vries (born in 1961 in Ontario, Canada) is a writer for children, teens and adults and creative writing instructor. Her 2010 book, Hunger Journeys and her 2015 book Rabbit Ears both won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.

Missing Sarah

Missing Sarah is de Vries's best known book; a memoir of her missing adopted sister Sarah de Vries. Sarah was born on May 12, 1969, and the de Vries family adopted her in April 1970. She disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in April 1998. and coordinated a book club for inner-city women. In the fall of 2005, she was the first Writer-in-Residence at the Vancouver Public Library and in the fall of 2012 she was the first Writer-in-Residence at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, British Columbia.

Educator

In her mid-to-late thirties, de Vries was a substitute teacher for five years. Before that, in the late ’80s, she worked for two years as assistant to children’s author Jean Little (who is also her aunt), traveling with her all over Canada, the United States, and England, and teaching children's literature courses with her at the University of Guelph. nominee.

In 2011, Hunger Journeys won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. won the 2006 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award and was a Silver Birch Express Honour Book.

Missing Sarah: A Memoir of Loss was a 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction nominee, won both the 2004 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in BC Literature and the 2004 VanCity Book Prize, received Honorable Mention for the 2004 Vancouver Book Award and was a 2004 One Book, One Vancouver runner-up.

How Sleep Found Tabitha was nominated for the 2003 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize

Chance and the Butterfly was nominated for four awards in 2002: the Silver Birch Award; the Diamond Willow Award; and the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.

Selected works Rabbit Ears HarperCollins Big City Bees Greystone Books Hunger Journeys HarperCollins Somebody's Girl Orca Books Chance and the Butterfly Orca Books Fraser Bear: A Cub's Life Greystone Books Tale of a Great White Fish Paperback Greystone Books Once Upon a Golden Apple Penguin Books How Sleep Found Tabitha Orca Books Missing Sarah: A Memoir of Loss Penguin Books