The author of numerous books, including
The Auction
,
The Very Last First Time
, and
When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew
, which won the Silver Birch Express Award, JAN ANDREWS received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture as a children's writer and pioneer of Canada's storytelling movement. She died in 2017, during the final editing stages on her novel
To See the Stars.