Christie Lucy Harris (November 21, 1907 – January 5, 2002) was a Canadianchildren's author. November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Basic Characteristics There is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature. ...
In 1980, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 1973, she was awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award. The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means, Desiring a better country. ... The Vicky Metcalf Award is awarded to a writer whose body of work has been inspirational to Canadian youth. ...
Selected bibliography
Cariboo Trail (1957)
Once Upon a Totem (1963)
You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere (1964)
West with the White Chiefs (1965)
Raven's Cry (1966)
Confessions of a Toe-Hanger (1967)
Forbidden Frontier (1968)
Let X Be Excitement (1969)
Figleafing Through History: The Dynamics of Dress (1971, with Moira Johnston)
In 1958, ChristieHarris was asked to write a series of half-hour radio programs about the Indian cultures of the Pacific Northwest for broadcast to the schools by the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Harris brought to her work an historian's concern for accuracy, a scholar's attention to detail, and a born storyteller's enthusiasm for her subject.
Harris speaks of the care with which an artist would carve the sides of a seventy-foot war canoe with abstract designs of an eagle wing, eye and feathers and then polish the vessel to a gleaming sheen.
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