Andrea and David Spalding, Pender Island, BC

2002

Andrea Spalding

Andrea is a spinne of yarns and a weaver of words. A dynamic presenter who enjoys her audience Andrea is an award-winning author with a growing body of work for young people. Her stories are always full of motion, excitement, humor and a love of the Canadian landscape. Andrea lives on Pender Island, BC.

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• Solomon’ Tree, Orca Book Publishing, 2002
• Summer of Magic Quarter
• Book 1-The White Horse Talisman, Orca Books Publishing, 2001
• It’s Raining, It’s pouring, Orca Books Publishing, 2001
• The Keeper and the Crows, Orca Book Publishing, 2000
• Phoebe and the Gypsy, Orca Book Publishing,1999
• Me and Mr. Mah , Orca Books Publishing, 1999
• Sarah May and the New Red Dress, Orca Books Publishing, 1998
• Winds Through Time (edited Ann Walsh), Beach Holm, 1998
• An Island of My Own, Beach Holm Publishing, 1998
• Finders Keepers, Beach Holm Publishing, 1995
• Never a Dull Moment, Collins, 1984 (with Peggy Holmes)

Awards

• Finders Keepers, nominated for the 1996 BC Book Prize for Children's Fiction
• National Chapter of Canada IODE Award, Silver Birch Award, Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice
• Sarah May and the New Red Dress, Fances nominated for Howard Gibbon award for
  illustration, Short-listed for Ruth Schwartz award, Ontario Library Association, CBC Children’s book panel selection, Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice, Canadian Library Association Honour Book, 1998

David Spalding

David is a writer with a particular interest in the natural sciences and their history; folklore and music; and the region of western Canada where he lives. Born in the UK, he came to Canada in 1967, spent 24 years in Alberta, and now lives on Pender Island in British Columbia.

His careers have been in museums and heritage consulting, radio and television, storytelling, folk music and informal education for children and adults. He is a professional associate of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, and his radio programs have won international awards.

His interest in dinosaurs goes back to his childhood in Britain, when there were few exhibits or books available. He took a degree in geology and worked on fossils in several museums in the UK. He was in charge of the natural history programs (including the dinosaur program) at the Provincial Museum of Alberta for 15 years.

Here he was fortunate enough to work with some fine paleontologists and technicians, building up the collections and research information that made the Tyrrell museum possible. He spent a year planning what became the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller before turning to freelance work in interpretation planning and writing.

He has worked on other dinosaur as a Teacher's manual for Dinosaur Provincial Park and
videos for its field station. He has visited many dinosaur sites in Canada and the United States, and during a 1995 tour of major sites in western United States discovered a 40-million-year old trackway a large mammal in Utah.

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Selected Books

• Into the Dinosaurs' Graveyard: Canadian Digs & Discoveries, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 1999
• Whales of the West Coast, Harbour Publishing + Co Ltd, 1998
• Novel Study and Teacher's Guide for Shabash!, Beach Holme Publishing, 1997
• Novel Study and Teacher's Guide for Finders Keepers, Beach Holme Publishing,1995
• Dinosaur Hunters, Key Porter, Toronto, 1993

Awards

• Minister of Education Award, Japan
• Best of the West Special Merit Award, for radio script, 1981

Books by David and Andrea’s Adventure.Net Series

• Book 1-The Lost Sketch, White Cap Books, Vancouver, 1999
• Book 2-The Silver Bolder, White Cap Books, Vancouver, 2000
• Book 3-The Disappearing Dinosaur, 2002
• Southern Gulf Islands, Altitude Publishing, Canmore Alberta, 1995
• BC Ferries and the Canadian West Coast, Altitude Publishing Canada, 1996
• The Whistler, Jasper National Park, Environment Canada, Parks, 1986
• The Pender palate, Loon Books, 1992 (with Georgina Montgomery)