Wendy Barrie Wendy Barrie Wendy Barrie (born Marguerite Wendy Jenkins, 18 April 1912 – 2 February 1978) was a British-American film and television actress. Barrie was born in Hong Kong to English parents. Her father was a successful lawyer and King's Counsel, F.C. Jenkins. She received her education at a convent school in England and a finishing school in Switzerland. While still in her teens, she began pursuing a career as an actress, helped by her red-gold hair and blue eyes. She adopted the stage name Wendy Barrie in honour of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, who was her godfather. She began
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award Oppel, in 2011. Nine books named CLA Book of the Year for Children have also won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or the preceding Canada Council Children's Literature Prize, or earlier Governor General's Award for juvenile fiction (in all, conferred for English-language books from 1949 to 1958 and 1975 to present). The writers and CLA award dates were Richard S. Lambert 1950, Farley Mowat 1958, Kevin Major 1979, Cora Taylor 1986, Janet Lunn 1987, Michael Bedard 1991, Tim Wynne-Jones 1994, Pamela Porter 2006, Susin Nielsen 2013. Thus "Shadow in Hawthorn Bay" (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986) by