Marthe Jocelyn
{{Short description|Canadian writer}}
{{Infobox author
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}}
| spouse = Tom Slaughter
| children = 2
| birth_place = Toronto, Canada
| awards = {{plainlist}}
- TD Canadian Children's Literature Award (2005)
- Vicky Metcalf Award (2009)
- Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile (2023)
{{endplainlist}}
| website = {{URL|marthejocelyn.com}}
}}
Marthe Jocelyn (born 1956){{Cite web |title=Jocelyn, Marthe 1956- |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/jocelyn-marthe-1956 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Encyclopedia.com |archive-date=2022-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717150329/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/jocelyn-marthe-1956 |url-status=live }} is a Canadian writer of over forty children's books.{{Cite web |title=Marthe Jocelyn |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/14548/marthe-jocelyn |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Penguin Random House |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810113535/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/14548/marthe-jocelyn |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Marthe Jocelyn |url=https://www.writerstrust.com/authors/marthe-jocelyn/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Writers' Trust of Canada |language=en |archive-date=2023-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319162620/https://www.writerstrust.com/authors/marthe-jocelyn/ |url-status=live }} In 2009, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, an honour bestowed by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer or illustrator whose body of work has been "inspirational to Canadian youth".{{Cite web |last=Hopkins |first=Amanda |date=2014-04-28 |title=Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vicky-metcalf-award-for-childrens-literature |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318051506/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vicky-metcalf-award-for-childrens-literature |archive-date=2023-03-18 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia}}{{Cite web |title=Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature Archives |url=https://bookcentre.ca/awards/vicky-metcalf-award-childrens-literature |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512022808/http://bookcentre.ca/awards/vicky-metcalf-award-childrens-literature |archive-date=2023-05-12 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Canadian Children's Book Centre |language=en-US}}
Biography
Jocelyn was born in 1956 in Toronto and was raised in Stratford, Ontario. As a teenager, she attended a boarding school in Great Britain. After living in various areas, she settled in New York City, where she lived for thirty years before returning to Stratford.{{Cite web |title=Life |url=https://www.marthejocelyn.com/bio.htm |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Marthe Jocelyn |archive-date=2022-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528032848/https://www.marthejocelyn.com/bio.htm |url-status=live }}
She is married to Tom Slaughter and has two daughters: Hannah and Nell. Tom and Nell have contributed illustrations to a number of her children's books.
Aside from writing, Jocelyn owned Jesse Design, a "toy and clothing design firm", for fifteen years.
Awards and honors
In 2009, Jocelyn received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People,{{Cite web |title=2009 Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature Recipient: Marthe Jocelyn |url=https://bookcentre.ca/book-review/2009_vicky_metcalf_award_for_childrens_literature_recipient_marthe_jocelyn |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Canadian Children's Book Centre |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129191543/http://bookcentre.ca/book-review/2009_vicky_metcalf_award_for_childrens_literature_recipient_marthe_jocelyn |url-status=live }} an honour bestowed by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer or illustrator whose body of work has been "inspirational to Canadian youth".
Five of Jocelyn's books are Junior Library Guild selections: Earthly Astonishments (2000),{{Cite web |title=Earthly Astonishments by Marthe Jocelyn |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780525462637J&name=Earthly_Astonishments |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Junior Library Guild}} Mable Riley (2004),{{Cite web |title=Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance by Marthe Jocelyn |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780763621209J&name=Mable_Riley |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Junior Library Guild}} Folly (2010),{{Cite web |title=Folly by Marthe Jocelyn |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780385907316J&name=Folly |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Junior Library Guild |archive-date=2020-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930225450/https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780385907316J&name=Folly |url-status=live }} The Body under the Piano (2020),{{Cite web |title=Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body under the Piano by Marthe Jocelyn |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780735265462J&name=Body_Under_the_Piano |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Junior Library Guild |archive-date=2022-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811214415/https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780735265462J&name=Body_Under_the_Piano |url-status=live }} and Peril at Owl Park (2021).{{Cite web |title=Peril at Owl Park: Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen by Marthe Jocelyn |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780735265493J&name=Peril_at_Owl_Park |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Junior Library Guild |archive-date=2022-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815095607/https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780735265493J&name=Peril_at_Owl_Park |url-status=live }} Two of her books have been included on USBBY's Outstanding International Books List: Would You (2009){{Cite web |last=Angus |first=Carolyn |date=2009-02-01 |title=World Class: USBBY |url=https://www.slj.com/story/world-class-usbbys-outstanding-international-books-for-young-people |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=School Library Journal}} and Sam Sorts (2018).{{Cite web |last=Walke |first=Martha M. |date=2018-02-09 |title=Presenting 38 must-have titles {{!}} USBBY |url=https://www.slj.com/story/presenting-38-must-titles-usbbys-2018-outstanding-international-books-list |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=School Library Journal}}
In 2007, the Toronto Public Library included Eats on their "list of the top 10 books of 2007 for children under the age of five".{{Cite web |last=MacDonald |first=Scott |date=2007-11-23 |title=Best of 2007 for the under-five set |url=https://quillandquire.com/industry-news/2007/11/23/best-of-2007-for-the-under-five-set/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Quill and Quire |language=en}} The same year, School Library Journal named How It Happened in Peach Hill one of the best children's books of the year.{{Cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Trevelyn |last2=Toth |first2=Luann |last3=Grabarek |first3=Daryl |last4=Charnizon |first4=Marlene |last5=Fleishhacker |first5=Joy |date=2007-12-01 |title=SLJ's Best Books of 2007 |url=https://www.slj.com/story/sljs-best-books-of-2007 |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=School Library Journal}}
Folly was named one of the Kirkus Reviews
Selected texts
= Standalone books =
- Earthly Astonishments (2000)
- Hannah's Collections (2000)
- A Day with Nellie (2002)
- Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance (2004)
- One Some Many, illustrated by Tom Slaughter (2004)
- Over Under, illustrated by Tom Slaughter (2005)
- ABC x 3, illustrated by Tom Slaughter (2005)
- How It Happened in Peach Hill (2007)
- Eats, illustrated by Tom Slaughter (2007)
- Ready for Summer (2008)
- Would You (2008)
- Same Same, illustrated by Tom Slaughter (2009)
- Folly (2010)
- Scribbling Women (2011)
- Ones and Twos, illustrated by Nell Jocelyn (2011)
- What We Hide (2014)
- Viminy Crowe's Comic Book, with Richard Scrimger, illustrated by Claudia Dávila (2014)
= Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series =
The Aggie Morton books are illustrated by Isabelle Follath.
- The Body Under the Piano (2020)
- Peril at Owl Park (2020)
- The Dead Man in the Garden (2021)
- The Seaside Corpse (2022)
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Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:Governor General's Award–winning children's writers