Maggie de Vries was born in 1961 in Ontario and moved with her family to Vancouver when she was three. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in English in 1984, an M.A. in English in 1992, and a B.Ed. in 1994. She has worked as a teacher, a children's book editor, and as an assistant to her aunt, author Jean Little. de Vries lives in Vancouver.

Books by Maggie de Vries

	1991 Once Upon a Golden Apple (with Jean Little, children)
	2001 Chance and the Butterfly (children)
	2002 How Sleep Found Tabitha (children)
	2003 Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister (nonfiction)
	2006 Tale of a Great White Fish (children)
	2010 Fraser Bear (children)
	2010 Hunger Journeys
	2011 Somebody's Girl
	2012 Big City Bees
	2014 Rabbit Ears
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Awards

• Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
  • 2003 – How Sleep Found Tabitha – Shortlisted
  • 2007 – Tale of a Great White Fish – Winner
  • 2011 – Fraser Bear – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Nonfiction
  • 2003 – Missing Sarah – Shortlisted

• Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
  • 2002 – Chance and the Butterfly – Shortlisted
  • 2011 – Hunger Journeys – Winner
  • 2015 – Rabbit Ears – Winner

• Silver Birch Award
  • 2003 – Chance & the Butterfly – Shortlisted

Links

• Official site

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Added 20 May 2006.
Updated 22 June 2015.