Take the Stairs was a finalist for the OLA White Pine Award.Cut the Lights received a Starred Review in ALA’s Booklist Magazine.Bog won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award in Canada and was a OLA Best Bets selection.Punch Like a Girl and Bog were CCBC Best Books for Kids and Teens.Punch Like a Girl was a finalist for the Joan F.

Sour Cakes was an Ontario Library Association Best Bets selection.

It was also selected as a 2022 Science and Nature Book for Kids by Betsy Bird.

One Tiny Bubble was selected as a Chicago Public Library Best Informational Book.

Karen lives with her family in Toronto, on the traditional territory of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinabeg and the treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Karen Krossing Take The Stairs Paperback Octoby Karen Krossing (Author) See all formats and editions Kindle 6.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 16.48 1 Used from 9.13 2 New from 9. She also mentors writers for kids and teens. She also offers readings and book talks, where she talks about her work and the writing process.Īs a freelance writer and editor, Karen writes and edits for business and educational clients. Gritty, heartfelt and ultimately redemptive stories for young adults. Karen nurtures new writers through writing workshops for kids, teens, and adults. Take the Stairs by Karen Krossing (Paperback, 2003) About this product. Boy with Charlesbridge Publishing in 2023. Watch for her upcoming middle-grade novel Monster vs. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she's joined Whale Rock Literary Workshops as faculty. These are not the glossy stories one sees on TV but the real lives of teens growing up in Canada in the twenty-first century. Today, she’s the author of many books for kids and teens, including picture books One Tiny Bubble and Sour Cakes, and novels Punch Like a Girl, Bog, and Cut the Lights. Through reading Take the Stairs, one develops a greater appreciation for the commonality that runs through people’s lives: suffering, struggle, and hope. Karen Krossing wrote comics and poetry as a kid and dreamed of becoming a published writer.