Lunn as "a model of what a Canadian writer should be. Moore, her collaborator and another former chair of the Writers' Union, said he thought of Ms. Lunn's death of heart failure on June 26 in Ottawa at the age of 88. In that role, she advocated fiercely to reverse cuts to the budget of the Canada Council for the Arts. She was the first children's author to serve as chair of the Writers' Union of Canada, in 1984-85. I write them because some small, stubborn part of me still feels that, if I am quick enough, or wily enough, one day I will find my way through that time barrier" – like her heroine, Rose, in The Root Cellar. Lunn protested, though: "I don't write historical novels to teach anything. Teachers across the country wrote to thank her for writing the historical novels they used to teach history to children in an interesting way. Civil War Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (1988), a supernatural tale with a Celtic twist that took her to the north of Scotland to research the look, sounds and smell of the landscape and well-received biographies of Laura Secord and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Other titles were The Root Cellar (1981), about a ghost that becomes a young girl's best friend and guide in an old root cellar that's actually a portal to the time of the U.S. These included The Hollow Tree, which won a Governor-General's Literary Award in 1998, and The Story of Canada, co-authored with Christopher Moore, the first illustrated history of Canada for young people and winner of a Mr.
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