Ann Blades (born November 16, 1947)[1] is a Canadian illustrator, writer and educator.
She earned a teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia in 1970.
In 1974, she graduated in nursing from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Blades taught school in a number of isolated communities in British Columbia.
[2][3] Her first book Mary of Mile 18, published in 1971, received the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award.