Polly Horvath

Polly Horvath (born 30 January 1957, Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American-Canadian author of children's and young adult novels.

Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She has been writing since the age of eight. She attended college in Toronto as well as the Canadian College of Dance. She lived in New York and Montreal, before settling on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.[1]

Horvath's novel Everything on a Waffle was a 2002 Newberry Honor book. The Canning Season won the 2003 National Book Award. She once declared: "I don't have that much fun writing them. I have the most fun when I'm on the last page."

She is married to Arnie Keller. They have two daughters, Emily and Rebecca.

Horvath's next novel, Northward to the Moon, will be published in February 2010.

Books

• An Occasional Cow
• No More Cornflakes
• The Happy Yellow Car
• When the Circus Came to Town
• The Trolls - National Book Award finalist; Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor
• Everything on a Waffle - Newberry Honor; Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor; International White Ravens 2002; Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize (British Columbia Book Prize for Children's Literature)
• The Canning Season - 2003 National Book Award winner; 2004 Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year
• The Vacation
• The Pepins and their Problems
• The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane - Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize; shortlisted for the 2007 Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year.
• My One Hundred Adventures -NAPPA Gold Award winner; Parent's Choice Gold Award; Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize

Reference: [2]

External links

• Polly Horvath's web site

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