POLLY HORVATH is the author of many books for young people, including The Night Garden, Very Rich, Everything on a Waffle, and The Trolls. Her numerous awards include the Newbery Honor, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature. Her novel Pine Island Home was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, as well as the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and won Italy's Premio Orbil award. She has also been shortlisted for The Deutscher Jugenliteraturpreis, Germany's most prestigious literature award. Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She lives in Metchosin, British Columbia.
