Polly Horvath (born January 30, 1957, in Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American-Canadian author of novels for children and young adults. She won the 2003 U.S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for The Canning Season, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2010, Horvath received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.
Books in order of publication:
An Occasional Cow (1989)
No More Cornflakes (1990)
The Happy Yellow Car (1994)
When the Circus Came to Town (1996)
The Trolls (1999)
Everything on a Waffle (2001)
The Canning Season (2003)
The Pepins and their Problems (2004)
The Vacation (2005)
The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane (2007)
My One Hundred Adventures (2008)
Northward to the Moon (2010)
Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! (2012)
One Year in Coal Harbor (2012)
Lord and Lady Bunny—Almost Royalty! (2014)
The Night Garden – 2017
Very Rich – 2018
Pine Island Home -2020
Not a Smiley Guy – 2024
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