Sylvia Olsen

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Sylvia Olsen


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Sylvia Olsen is a writer and public speaker living on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. She is the author of several picture books, a number of first readers and novels for young adults and one non fiction—so far. Most of all she is a mother and grandmother and aunty to dozens of nieces and nephews.

Sylvia has spent most of her life living in Tsartlip First Nation, where her children and grandchildren now live. Because Sylvia is non native and her children are of mixed heritage most of her stories are about the place—the time—the experience of where different sorts of people come together. That’s one of the things that interests her the most. It’s one of the things she knows the most about—and like many authors—Sylvia writes about what s
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Unravelling Canada: A Knitt...

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Yellow Line

3.54 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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No Time to Say Goodbye

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3.82 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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The Girl with a Baby

3.74 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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White Girl

3.69 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Middle Row

3.64 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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Working with Wool: A Coast ...

4.56 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Yetsa's Sweater

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3.94 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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knitting stories

4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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Counting on Hope

3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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