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Reviews and promotional material

Series contains newspaper clippings, printouts from websites, and publisher's catalogues that feature reviews and promotional material about Budge Wilson's books. The series also contains drafts of press releases written by Budge Wilson to promote her books and newspaper articles that feature Budge Wilson and her writing career.

Budge Wilson fonds

  • MS-2-650
  • Fonds
  • 1948-2018
Fonds consists of manuscripts and proofs of Budge Wilson's books and short stories; correspondence with publishers, students, and teachers; publicity material; photocopies and clippings of reviews, profiles, and notices regarding awards and appearances; diaries; recorded radio interviews; and an assortment of other documents created and collected by the author throughout her writing career. The fonds also contains materials relating to the adaptation of Wilson's novel "Before Green Gables" into a Japanese animated television series.

CANSCAIP draft of Budge Wilson's update for Round Up

File contains a handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's news announcement for the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP) newsletter, News Roundup. The announcement includes her recently published book "After Swissair"; readings at public libraries, the Hubbards Literary Society, and Word on the Street; interviews on CTV and CBC radio; features in the Chronicle Herald; and the upcoming publication of the fourth new Polish edition of "Before Green Gables."

Books and short story anthologies by Budge Wilson

Series consists of research, manuscripts, and drafts of books and short story anthologies written by Budge Wilson. Series also contains some draft illustrations by Budge Wilson and artists with whom she collaborated, including Terry Roscoe, and signed, published copies of her books.

Short stories by Budge Wilson

Series consists of independent short stories written by Budge Wilson (i.e., those not included in complete anthologies by Wilson). Series includes drafts and proofs with annotations by Budge Wilson and her editors.

A detached compassion : drafts

File consists of two typescript drafts, with hand-written revisions, of the short story "A Detached Compassion" by Budge Wilson.

Big little Jerome : drafts

File includes two copies of two typescript versions of the short story Big Little Jerome by Budge Wilson. The story appears in the book Friendships: stories.

Crazy poems : drafts

File consists of seven typescripts of crazy poems by Budge Wilson. Includes the poems: Marybelle; The Darling Boy; Victor; two copies of The Skunk; Words; two copies of The King Who Took Up Reading; and The Queen Who Dined On Sugar Lumps.

The prince and the pirate : draft

File consists of the typescript, with hand-written revisions, of the short story "The Prince and the Pirate" by Budge Wilson.

The surprise : manuscript and draft

File consists of a manuscript and typescript of the short story "The Surprise" by Budge Wilson. Early title was "Points of View" but was changed to "The Surprise."

The watcher : draft

File consists of the typescript, with hand-written revisions, of the short story "The Watcher" by Budge Wilson.

School visits

Series consists of cards, letters, artwork, and stories given to Budge Wilson by children in schools that she visited in her capacity as an author.

Breakdown

Subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts of Budge Wilson's book "Breakdown" for its first edition in 1988 by Scholastic Publishing, and then for its 2015 reissue by Northwest Publishing.

Edits and correspondence with Jeanette McCurdy and Julie De Adder of McGraw Hill on reissuing My Cousin Clarette

File contains copies of outgoing and incoming emails between Budge Wilson, Jeanette McCurdy, and Julie De Adder regarding the reissuing of Wilson's book "My Cousin Clarette" by McGraw Hill. The file also contains a partial, annotated proof for "My Cousin Clarette" with marked edits that are discussed in various emails, Wilson's handwritten biography, and Wilson's handwritten discussion of "Why I wrote 'My Cousin Clarette.'"

Breakdown : typescript draft

File consists of the transcript with hand written revisions of the book "Breakdown" by Budge Wilson, updated to 2015. This version was published by Northwest Publishing.
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