Tim Wynne-Jones

Tim Wynne-Jones, (born 12 August 1948) is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.

For his contribution as a children's writer he was Canada's nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012. An additional formative experience was his participation in the St Matthew's Anglican Church choir of men and boys, of which he was for a time the Head Chorister. He is a faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts, teaching in the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program.

Writing Tim Wynne-Jones' first book was Odd's End which is said to have been written over the space of five weeks while his wife was away. It was published By McClelland & Stewart in 1980 and won the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award. Since then, Wynne-Jones has written more than 20 books, including picture books, novels for children and young adults, as well as three novels for adults. His work has been widely reviewed and he has won several awards, including two Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards from The Horn Book Magazine for children's fiction published in the U.S. (1995, 2011); and the Edgar Award for Young Adult Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America (2002).

Works

Children's picture books Madeline and Ermadillo - 1976 Zoom at Sea - 1983 Zoom Away - 1985 The Hour of the Frog - 1985 I'll Make You Small - 1986 Mischief City - 1986 Architect of the Moon - 1988 (U.S. title: Builder of the Moon) Zoom Upstream - 1992 The Last Piece of Sky - 1993 Mouse In the Manger - 1993 The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 1996 Dracula - 1997 On Tumbledown Hill - 1998 Ned Mouse Breaks Away - 2002

Juvenile and Young adult fiction Some of the Kinder Planets - 1993 Rosie Backstage - 1994 (with Amanda Lewis) The Book of Changes - 1994 The Maestro - 1995 (Australian title: The Flight of Burl Crow, UK title The Survival Game) Stephen Fair - 1998 Lord of the Fries and Other Stories - 1999 The Boy in the Burning House - 2000 (Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel, 2002) A Midwinter Night's Dream - 2003 (Libretto, commissioned by the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus) A Thief in the House of Memory - 2004 Rex Zero and the End of the World - 2007 Rex Zero, King of Nothing - 2008 The Uninvited - 2009 Rex Zero, the Great Pretender - 2010 Blink and Caution - 2011 The Emperor of Any Place - 2015 War at the Snow White Motel and Other Stories - 2020

Adult fiction Odd's End - 1980 The Knot - 1983 Fastyngange - 1988 (UK title: Voices) SilabGarza - 2010

Co-Authored Click - 2007

Radio plays "The Thinking Room" for CBC Radio's Nightfall - 1982 "The Road Ends at the Sea" for CBC Radio's Nightfall - 1982 "The Strange Odyssey of Lennis Freed" for CBC Radio's Nightfall - 1983

Awards 1980 - Seal First Novel Award, Odd's End 1983 - Ruth Schwartz Award of The Canadian Book Sellers Association, Zoom at Sea 1993 - Governor General's Award for English language children's literature, Some of the Kinder Planets 1995 - Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for children's fiction, Some of the Kinder Planets 2011 - Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for children's fiction, Blink & Caution