Mary Alice Downie

Mary Alice Downie (born February 12, 1934) is a US born Canadian writer. In 1959, Downie and her husband moved to Pittsburgh; they moved to Kingston, Ontario in 1962. From 1973 to 1979, Downie was book review editor for the Kingston Whig-Standard.

Selected works The Wind has Wings: Poems from Canada, an anthology of poetry, with Barbara Robertson (1968)

Scared Sarah (1974) Dragon on Parade (1974) The King's Loon/Un huart pour le roi (1979) And Some Brought Flowers: Plants in a New World, with Mary Hamilton (1980) A Proper Acadian (1980) Seeds and Weeds: A Book of Country Crafts, with Jillian Gilliland (1981) The Window of Dreams: New Canadian Writing for Children, with Elizabeth Greene and M.A. Thompson (1986) Written in Stone: A Kingston Reader, with M.A. Thompson (1993) Snow Paws, with Kathryn Naylor (1996) Bright Paddles (1999)