Little’s passion for writing led her to Victoria College’s English language and literature program at the University of Toronto.
From then on, she found great joy in writing stories and poems, and also in the attention she received from her parents, who supported her burgeoning talent. In her autobiography, Little by Little: A Writer’s Education (Viking, 1987), Little recalled that she wrote her first story at age 10. A year later, in 1940, they settled in Guelph, and Little learned to adapt to a regular classroom, and was elevated to the fourth grade. The family returned to Canada in 1939, moving to Toronto, and seven-year-old Jean was in a class for visually impaired students. She regained some sight throughout her childhood, and her parents, who routinely read to Little and her siblings, taught her to read on her own. From birth, Little’s corneas were scarred and it was determined she was legally blind, able to respond to light.
Jean Little was born Januin Taiwan, where her physician parents were serving as missionaries. Canadian children’s book author Jean Little, internationally recognized for her novels featuring characters who realistically deal with adversity, died on April 6 at Hospice Wellington in Guelph, Ontario.
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