Deborah Ellis

Deborah Ellis is the internationally acclaimed author of more than twenty books for children, including the Breadwinner trilogy; The Heaven Shop; Lunch With Lenin; Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees; and Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS. She has won many national and international awards for her books, including the Governor General?s Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award, Sweden?s Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children?s Book Award, and the Children?s Africana Book Award Honor Book for Older Readers. In 2006, Deborah was named to the Order of Ontario. She now lives in Simcoe, Ontario.