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    Ann Blades fonds

    • Title:Ann Blades fonds
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    • Author/Creator:Blades, Ann.
    • Published/Created:1967 -2013
    • Holdings

      • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
      • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1036
      • Number of Items:23
      • Status:Available
      • Location Has:Box 1-23

      • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
      • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1036
      • Number of Items:13
      • Status:Available
      • Location Has:Folder 1 to 6, 12-4 to 12-10

       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Blades, Ann.
    • Description:approximately 177. 6 cm of textual records and other material
    • Summary:The fonds consists of textual records and artwork created by Ann Blades during the course of her career as an author and illustrator of Canadian children's literature. The records date from circa 1967 to 2013, with particular concentration during the years immediately prior to the publication of Blades' works. The fonds is especially strong in areas related to book production and sales, including, contracts, royalty reports, correspondence with publishers, literary agents and designers, layout materials, manuscripts, sketches, drawings and paintings. In addition, the creator has gathered a number of clippings and reviews which document the critical reception of her work.
    • Biography/history note:Author and illustrator Ann Blades was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on November 16, 1947. Blades obtained a teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia in 1970 and a nursing degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1974. Following conferral of her education credentials, Blades moved to north-eastern British Columbia to teach in a two-room school in the small community of Mile 18. It was during this time that she wrote and illustrated her first book, Mary of Mile 18 (1971). The following year, Blades moved to Tache in central British Columbia to teach; again finding inspiration for her second work, Boy of Tache (1973). Mary of Mile 18, won Blades a Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award (1972) and was later made into an animated film (1981), directed by Svend-Erik Eriksen. In 1978, A Salmon for Simon, written by Betty Waterton, and illustrated by Blades, was published, earning Blades the Canada Council's Children's Literature Prize for Illustration and the Amelia Francis Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. Blades has worked as an illustrator of children's books and an artist full-time since 1980, winning the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award in 1986 for By the Sea: An Alphabet Book (1985). Today Ann Blades is considered an iconic figure in children's literature and illustration.
    • Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
    • Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.
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