![]() ![]() ![]() She also wrote One Woman's Arctic (1973) about her two summers in Pond Inlet, Nunavut on Baffin Island. ![]() Although The Incredible Journey is marketed as a children's book, and in fact won the 1961 Canadian Children's Book of the Year award, Mrs Burnford has stated that it was not intended as a children's book. The book was a modest success in 1961 but became a bestseller after it formed the basis of a successful Disney film. In 1951 she emigrated to Canada, settling in Port Arthur, Ontario.īurnford is best remembered for The Incredible Journey, a story about three animals traveling in the wilderness (1961), the first of a number of books she wrote on Canadian topics. During World War II she worked as a volunteer ambulance driver. In 1941 she married Doctor David Burnford, with whom she had three children. George's School, Edinburgh and Harrogate Ladies College. Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford, née Every, ( – 20 April 1984) was an English novelist.īorn in Scotland but brought up in various parts of the United Kingdom, she attended St. ![]()
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