MARY LABATT

Mary Labatt is a full-time writer, well known for her highly successful children’s series about Sam, the Dog Detective, as well as other books written for early readers. Mary is a Fellow of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation, elected for her distinguished career achievement in education. During her career as a teacher, Mary earned many such honors, including being selected by her peers for the Ontario Greer Award for her outstanding contribution in the field.

For fourteen years, Mary was the editor of a magazine for Ontario teachers. The Canadian Educational Press Association awarded to Mary the Golden Leaf Award for excellence in educational communications. She has won also Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Educational Press Association of America.

Forthcoming:

Sam, Dog Detective series - graphic novels

• Spying on Dracula
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2009

• The Secret of Sagawa Lake
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2009

Fiction:

A Puppy is for Loving
Orca: Oct. 2007

Sam, Dog Detective series - novels

• One Terrible Halloween
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2002

• The Secret of Sagawa Lake
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2001

• The Mummy Lives!
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2001

• Aliens in Woodford
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2000

• A Weekend at the Grand Hotel
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2000

• Spying on Dracula
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 1999

• The Ghost of Captain Briggs
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 1999

• Strange Neighbours
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 1999

• Could Dracula Live in Woodford?
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 1982

Selected Early Reading books

• A Parade for Sam
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2004

• Sam Gets Lost
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2004

• Sam Goes to School
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2004

• Sam Finds a Monster
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2003

• Sam's First Halloween
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2003

• Sam Finds a Friend
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2003

• Pizza for Sam
  Kids Can Press: Toronto, 2003

• Mrs. Barn Owl Has to Move
  Curriculum Plus Publishing: Toronto, 2003

• Chip Finds a Friend
  Curriculum Plus Publishing: Toronto, 2003

• Dinosaurs
  Curriculum Plus Publishing: Toronto, 2003

• All About Fossils
  Curriculum Plus Publishing: Toronto, 2003

• Making a Book
  Curriculum Plus Publishing: Toronto, 2003

Non Fiction:

Academic Work

Always a Journey: A History of Women Teachers
Ontario Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario
Toronto, 1993

Selected Articles

FWTAO Newsletter

"Teacher Morale - It's Worse than You Think" October, 1994

"Children in Poverty - Educators Must be Their Advocate " April 1992

"Violence Against Women and Children
- An Epidemic and a National Disgrace"
December, 1990, January, 1991

"First Call - A New Dawn for the World's Children"
October/November, 1990

"The Superkid Syndrome - Do We Expect Too Much Too Soon?"
co-authored with Carolyn Crippen, June 1989

"Violence Against Women"
Canadian Principals' Association Journal, March, 1991 and
Ontario School Counsellors' Association Report, September, 1991

"Educational Software Gets Low Marks"
Software Canada 1984

Software Programs

Rhyme Time Reading Ontario Ministry of Education, 1987

What is Weather? co-authored with K. Adams,
Ontario Ministry of Education, 1987

Get Ready for Math Ontario Ministry of Education, 1986

Know Your Numbers Ontario Ministry of Education, 1986

Learn to Count Ontario Ministry of Education, 1986

Learn to Add Ontario Ministry of Education, 1986

Learn to Subtract Ontario Ministry of Education, 1986