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Joanne Taylor was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1952, and was raised in Cape Breton, the third of ten children. She met her husband, Robin, while teaching with CUSO in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Joanne wrote occasionally for CBC Radio Halifax and for a city newspaper in Wiltshire, England, where the Taylors lived for four years. They have two daughters and they all live happily in Halifax. Joanne passed away in May 2010 after a valiant battle with ALS.
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Full Moon Rising
Written by Joanne Taylor
Illustrated by Susan Tooke
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Lifestyles (Country Life); Juvenile Fiction - Concepts - Time | 978-0-88776-548-3 (0-88776-548-3) | September 2002 | 19.99
Through the centuries people have measured time by the phases of the moon. From January’s Wolf Moon to June’s Honey Moon, and from September’s Harvest Moon to December’s Long-Night Moon, Joanne Taylor introduces the names of each full moon in a gentle narrative that follows the rhythms of a farm family’s... [read more]
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Making Room
Written by Joanne Taylor
Illustrated by Peter Rankin
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Multigenerational; Juvenile Fiction - Lifestyles (Country Life) | 978-0-88776-651-0 (0-88776-651-X) | September 2004 | 22.99
Illustrator, Peter Rankin, is the 2004 recipient of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in illustration.
John William Smith – barely more than a boy – clears land, builds a one-room house, plants three apple trees, then sits down to sip his tea and watch the sunset. He has everything a... [read more]
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There You Are
Written by Joanne Taylor
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Siblings; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Friendship | 978-0-88776-658-9 (0-88776-658-7) | February 2004 | 12.99
Nominated for the CLA's Children's Book of the Year Award for 2005
Finalist for the 2005/2006 Hackmatack Award
World War II is not long past and life is returning to normal in Cape Breton’s lovely Margaree Valley. But Jeannie Shaw is achingly lonely. Among the thirteen families in her community, there is no... [read more]
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