Eric Walters

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Eric Walters
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Walters at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016
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Eric Robert Walters

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Eric Robert Walters, CM (born March 3, 1957) is a Canadian author of young adult fiction and picture books.[1][2] He has written over 130 books.[1]

Background

Walters was an elementary school teacher at Vista Heights Public School in Streetsville, Mississauga. In 1993, he was teaching a grade 5 class in which many of the students were reluctant readers and writers. To encourage them, Walters wrote his first novel, Stand Your Ground. The novel was set in the school and featured the names of many of his students. He has since written more than 70 novels for young adults.[3]

He is a three-time winner of both the Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award and Red Maple Award. His books have been translated and published in several other countries.[3]

Personal life

Eric Walters was born and raised in Toronto and resides in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife Anita. They have three adult children, Christina, Nicholas and Julia.[4]

In April 2010, Walters walked across the Sahara before writing Just Deserts. With his son, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for Between Heaven and Earth. He played with tigers before writing Tiger by the Tail.[4]

Walters and his wife founded the Creation of Hope, an organization providing care for orphans in the Mbooni district of Kenya.[5]

Awards

Walters's works have won or been nominated for the following awards:

Book Award(s)
Stars
Trapped in Ice
War of the Eagles
Diamonds in the Rough
The Hydrofoil Mystery
  • Canadian Library Association Honour Book designation, 1998[citation needed]
Caged EagIes
  • Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children shortlist, 2001[11]
  • UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance nomination, 2003[11]
Rebound
  • Red Maple Award, 2002[12]
  • Snow Willow Award, 2002[13]
The Bully Boys
Camp X
Run
  • Torgi Award, 2004[16]
We All Fall Down
  • Red Maple Winner, 2006[12]
Shattered
  • White Pine Winner, 2006[17]
Safe as Houses
  • Red Maple Winner, 2007[12]
The Pole
The King of Jam Sandwiches

Published works

Fiction

  • Stand Your Ground (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1994)
  • Stars (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1996)
  • Trapped in Ice (Penguin 1997)
  • War of the Eagles (Orca 1998)
  • Diamonds in the Rough (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1998)
  • The Hydrofoil Mystery (Penguin 1999)
  • Caged Eagles (Orca 2000)
  • Rebound (Stoddart 2000)
  • The Bully Boys (Penguin 2000)
  • Northern Exposures (HarperCollins 2001)
  • Camp X (Penguin 2002)
  • Ricky (HarperCollins 2002)
  • Tiger Town (Dundurn 2003)
  • Run (Penguin 2003)
  • Overdrive (Orca 2004)
  • Grind (Orca 2004)
  • Death by Exposure (Dundurn 2004)
  • Underdog (Orca 2004)
  • I've Got An Idea (HarperCollins 2004)
  • The True Story of Santa Claus (2005)
  • Juice (Orca 2005)
  • Elixir (Penguin 2005)
  • Triple Threat (Orca 2005)
  • Stuffed (Orca 2006)
  • Laggan Lard Butts (Orca 2006)
  • We All Fall Down (Doubleday 2006)
  • Shattered (Penguin 2006)
  • House Party (Orca 2007)
  • Bifocal (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2007)
  • Safe as Houses (Doubleday 2007)
  • Tiger Trap (Dundurn 2007)
  • Sketches (Penguin 2007)
  • Boot Camp (Orca 2007)
  • The Falls (Penguin 2008)
  • In A Flash (Orca 2008)
  • When Elephants Fight (Orca, 2008)
  • Voyageur (Penguin, 2008)
  • The Pole (Penguin 2008)
  • Splat! (Orca 2008)
  • Alexandria of Africa (Doubleday 2008)
  • Special Edward (Orca, 2009)
  • Black & White (Penguin, 2009)
  • Tell Me Why (Doubleday, 2009)
  • Wounded (Penguin, 2009)
  • United We Stand (Doubleday, 2009)
  • Shell Shocked (Penguin, 2009)
  • Wave (Doubleday, 2009)
  • Beverly Hills Maasai (Doubleday, 2010)
  • Branded (Orca, 2010)
  • Trouble in Paradise (Penguin, 2010)
  • Home Team (Orca, 2010)
  • Fly Boy (Penguin, 2010)
  • Shaken (Doubleday, January 2011)
  • Catboy (Orca, September 2011)
  • Just Deserts (Penguin, September 2011)
  • Between Heaven and Earth (2012)
  • The Matato Ride (Spring 2012)
  • The Taming (Spring 2012) with Teresa Toten
  • End of Days (Doubleday, September 2012)
  • Power Play (Spring 2013)
  • Tagged (Fall 2013)
  • My Name is Blessing (Fall 2013)
  • The Rule of Three (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2014)
  • Walking Home (Doubleday, 2014)
  • Saving Sammy (Orca 2014)
  • The Power of Three (Razorbill 2014)
  • Sleeper (Orca 2014)
  • Hope Springs (Tundra, September 2014)
  • Regenesis (Doubleday Canada 2015)
  • The Fight of Power (Razorbill 2015)
  • The Will to Survive (Razorbill 2016)
  • 90 Days of Different (Orca 2017)
  • Always With You (Nimbus Publishing, 2019)
  • The Boy Who Moved Christmas (Nimbus Publishing, 2020)
  • Don't Stand So Close to Me (Orca 2020)
  • The King of Jam Sandwiches (Orca 2020)
  • Bear in the Family (Orca 2022)

Non-fiction

  • Improve Your Child's Spelling 1 (1991) (with Norm Rippon)
  • Improve Your Child's Spelling 2 (1993) (with Norm Rippon)
  • When Elephants Fight (2008) (with Adrian Bradbury)
  • Tell Me Why (2009)
  • From the Heart of Africa: a Book of Wisdom (2018)

References

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eric Walters". Orca Book Publishers. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Medley, Mark (31 January 2014). "Eric Walters: The hardest-working writer in Canada". National Post. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gardner, Suzanne (11 March 2012). "Eric Walters". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About". Eric Walters. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Home". Creation of Hope. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."OLA: Silver Birch Award: 1997". Canadian Books & Authors. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Research Guides: Forest of Reading®, K to 6 Programs: Silver Birch Fiction Nominees, 1997". Queens University Library Research Guides. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Walters, Eric (1996). Stars. Stoddart. ISBN 978-0-7736-7447-9.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."1990s Canadian Literary Awards". Canadian Books & Authors. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  10. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."War of the Eagles". Orca Book Publishers. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  11. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Caged Eagles". Orca Book Publishers. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  12. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Research Guides: Forest of Reading®, 7 to 12 Programs: Red Maple Winners & Nominees, 1998-2026". Queens University Library Research Guides. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2002". Willow Awards. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."OLA: Red Maple Award: 2002". Canadian Books & Authors. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  15. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Camp X by Eric Walters". Canadian Books & Authors.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Berry, David (11 February 2020). "Run". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Berry, David (21 February 2020). "Shattered". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."National Outdoor Book Award". North Vancouver City Library. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."THE KING OF JAM SANDWICHES by Eric Walters Wins the 2020 Governor General's Award for Young People's Literature!". Transatlantic Agency. 1 June 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2026.

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