His many awards also include the Seal First Novel Award for Odds End (1981) the Arthur Ellis Award (Best Crime Writers of Canada) and the Edgar Award (Mystery Writers of America) in 2000 for The Boy in the Burning House (2000).

He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Text : in 1993 for Some of the Kinder Planets and in 1995 for The Maestro. He is best known for for his fiction as well as his critical writing and teaching in the field of children literature. Tim Wynne-Jones is the author of numerous short-stories, picture books and novels. He is a Faculty Member of the University of Vermont's writing for children & young adults programs, Children Literature New England. He has thought children literature courses at the University of Ottawa. Columnist for the Globe and Mail from 1985 to 1988, he became editor at Red Deer College Press from 1989 to 1996. He started his career as a full-time writer in 1980. He performed as a professional musician and worked in visual art and design. He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo (B.A., 1975) and York University (M.F.A. He is the son of Sydney Wynne-Jones and Sheila Beryce and is married to Amanda Lewis. Ages 10-up.Wynne-Jones, Tim, 1948- : Writer of childrens' books, teacher, journalist and songwriter, Tim Wynne-Jones was born in Bromborough, Cheshire, Great Britain, in 1948. Complex and poignant, wrapped around a dramatic story line, this book won Canada's Governor General's Award for Children's Literature in 1995.

Wynne-Jones's (Some of the Kinder Planets) builds strong, multidimensional characters Burl's father Cal both teaches his son about fishing lures and punches him in the face Burl triumphantly dreams of living alone but is desolate that his parents never bothered to report him missing the Maestro loves nature but fears wildlife. When the quirky Maestro leaves Burl in charge of the cabin and his grand piano, Burl thinks he's found a haven-but it's not long before events hurl the teen into a web of other people's plans and back to his own family trauma. There, the Maestro, as Burl is instructed to call him, having fled busy Toronto and the demands of his public, is trying to finish writing his great oratorio before he dies. When Burl runs away from home, he follows the sound of piano music and finds its source in an unlikely, pyramid-like cabin. The wilderness of northwest Ontario is a fitting setting for this tantalizing coming-of-age story about an abused boy, Burl, whose pervasive sense of isolation is cracked by an encounter with a famous pianist.

The maestro by tim wynne jones