![]() ![]() It was a modest success commercially and became a bestseller after release of the 1963 Disney film, The Incredible Journey (which was remade in 1993 as Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey). It is marketed for children but Burnford has stated that it was not intended as a children's book. The story of three animal pets traveling in the wilderness won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1963 and the ALA Aurianne Award in 1963 as the best book on animal life written for children ages 8–14. īurnford is best remembered for The Incredible Journey, published by Hodder & Stoughton with illustrations by Carl Burger in 1960. In 1951 she emigrated to Canada, settling in Port Arthur, Ontario. ![]() During World War II, she worked as a volunteer ambulance driver. David Burnford, with whom she had three children. ![]() She also attended schools in France and Germany. George's School, Edinburgh, and Harrogate Ladies College. She is best known for her novel The Incredible Journey about two dogs and a cat traveling through the Canadian wilderness.īorn in Scotland and brought up in various parts of the United Kingdom, she attended St. ![]() Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford née Every ( – 20 April 1984) was a Scottish writer. ![]()
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