Hi! I’m Ellen Schwartz. I write books for kids and magazine articles for adults. To find out about my books, click here.  You can click on the image at left to enlarge it.

I was born in Washington, D.C. but moved as a baby to New Jersey, where I grew up. As a child Ioved to read and often had my nose in a book.  My favorite books were The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth, and all the Nancy Drew books.

In 1972, I moved with my husband, Bill, to Canada. Now Bill and I live in Burnaby, British Columbia.  We have two grown daughters.  The picture at left shows Merri, Amy, me and Bill at Slocan Lake in southeast British Columbia, where we have a cabin.

Before I became a writer, I was a school teacher. I taught children with learning disabilities and also primary grades. But something made me want to write and I published my first book, Dusty, in 1983. Since then, I’ve published six more books for kids, one for adults and dozens of magazine articles.

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