Biography: Caroline Adderson is the author of Very Serious Children (Scholastic 2007). I, Bruno (Orca 2007) and Bruno for Real (Orca 2009) are collections of stories for emergent readers featuring seven year-old Bruno and his true life adventures. Caroline also writes for adults and has won two Ethel Wilson Fiction Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, as well as the 2006 Marion Engel Award given annually to an outstanding female writer in mid-career. Her numerous nominations include the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Caroline was the Vancouver Public Library's 2008 Writer-in-Residence. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her family. For more information, visit www.carolineaddersonkids.com.