But the force which propels Patricia into the past is really her own emotional turbulence.ĭuring her visits to the past Patricia observes the hardships of her mother when she was on the brink of adolescence. The talisman or device which initiates the travel is an old pocket watch. Upon joining her cousins at their summer cottage and feeling like an unwelcome outsider, Patricia enters a second time period 35 years earlier. Twelve year old Patricia is a shy, reserved Torontonian suffering from the conflicts of her parents' impending divorce. Kit Pearson's A Handful of Time (Penguin 1987) is a junior novel that explores the psychological aspects of time shift fantasy. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1986. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1987. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1989 Puffin Classics, 2014.Ī Handful of Time. The Singing Basket (Illustrated by Ann Blades). Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1991 Puffin Classics, 2014. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1993 Puffin Classics, 2014. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1996. Toronto: Penguin, 1998.Īwake and Dreaming. Illustrations by Gabrielle GrimmandĪ Perfect Gentle Knight (Penguin, $20) 2-6, 2007 Pearson's A Handful of Time (1987) won a Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award and was preceded a year earlier by her first book, The Daring Game.īe My Love (HarperCollins, 2019) $14.99 978-1-44344-402-6 Looking at the Moon (1991) and The Lights Go On Again (1993) complete the trilogy. Christie's Book Award and the Geoffrey Bilson for Historical Fiction for Young People Prize for The Sky Is Falling (1989), the first of three novels about two English children evacuated to Canada to escape the bombing of World War II. Catherines, North York and Burnaby for ten years prior to receiving the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award, the Mr.

She attended UBC and worked as a children's librarian in St. Kit Pearson was born in Edmonton in 1947. Kit Pearson received the 11th annual Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2014.

Be My Love by Kit Pearson