Frieda Wishinsky
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FRIEDA WISHINSKY has written over seventy books for children, including Alfie, No!; Oonga Boonga; You're Mean, Lily Jean; the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award winner Please, Louise!; the middle-grade series Survival, and the non-fiction books Explorers Who Made It . . . or died trying; Everything but the Kitchen Sink and Colossal Canada. Frieda lives in Toronto, Ontario with her husband. Visit her online at www.friedawishinsky.com.
Awards
- Alfie, No!, Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2020
- Survival: Avalanche!, Commended, OLA Best Bets: Honourable Mention, 2015
- Survival: Hurricane!, Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2016
- Survival: Ice Storm!, Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017
- Survival: Shipwreck!, Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2016
- Survival: Shipwreck!, Commended, OLA Best Bets: Honourable Mention, 2015
- The Queen’s Secret, Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2011
- The Queen’s Secret, Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2011
- We Belong Here, Short-listed, IODE Jean Throop Award, 2024
- We Belong Here, Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2025
- You’re Mean, Lily Jean, Short-listed, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, 2010
- You’re Mean, Lily Jean, Short-listed, OLA Blue Spruce Award, 2010
- You’re Mean, Lily Jean, Short-listed, Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2010
- You’re Mean, Lily Jean, Short-listed, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, 2010
- You’re Mean, Lily Jean, Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2009
- You’re Mean, Lily Jean, Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best booklist, 2009
