Linda Bailey is the author of more than two dozen much-loved books for children, including the Stevie Diamond Mysteries, Stanley’s Party and most recently, If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur.  She has received numerous awards across North American including the California Young Readers Medal, the Ontario Blue Spruce and Ontario Silver Birch Awards, and the Georgia Picture Book Award. Linda has traveled around the world, and so have her books. Her new books (fall/15) are Seven Dead Pirates: A Ghost Story and When Santa Was a Baby. She has two grown daughters, Lia and Tess, and lives in Vancouver, close to the sea.

Festival Books

At Wordfest 2015, Linda Bailey presents When Santa was a Baby, a funny and sweet story about Santa’s formative years as a jolly, one-of-a-kind kid (for grades 1-2). For grades 4 to 6, Bailey also presents Seven Dead Pirates, about a shy boy who comes to life and finds his voice when the ghosts of seven dead pirates appear in his bedroom. Other new titles by Linda Bailey include Stanley at School, the latest in the Stanley series.