Victoria Miles

Accordions, old bears, sea turtles, scientists, ancient trees and even chocolate…as the author of numerous best-selling books for children, Victoria Miles’ writing has taken her into grizzly bear country, up to marmot meadows, and back hundreds of years in time.

Victoria’s picturebook Old Mother Bear received the 2007 fiction, ecology and environment Henry Bergh Award from the American Society for the Protection of Animals. Her novel, Magnifico, won the 2008 F.G. Bressani novel prize, and was a finalist in four Canadian children’s choice awards. Victoria also writes non-fiction, and her 2005 book Wild Science: amazing encounters between animals and the people who study them was a finalist in both the 2005 Science in Society Book Awards, as well as the Ontario Library Association’s Red Maple Awards. She is also the author of The Chocolatier’s Apprentice a commemorative picturebook to celebrate the first 100 years of Purdy’s Chocolates.

Victoria’s humour writing was featured in the finals of the 2007 CBC Literary awards and she’s created a funny, feisty fictional family in her newest children’s novel, “Mimi Power and the I-don’t-know-what” on Tradewind Books’ list for 2012.

Victoria loves a good bear story, listens to accordion music while cleaning the house, and eats a little bit of chocolate every day. She lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia with her husband, photographer David Nunuk, two children, and their extended family of stuffed animals.