Karleen Bradford (born December 16, 1936) is a Canadian children's author.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bradford moved to Argentina as a child. She returned to Canada to attend university, and after graduation, she spent 34 years in different parts of the world as a Foreign Service Officer.

Published Books

• A Year for Growing - 1977 (republished as Wrong Again Robby - 1983)
• The Other Elizabeth - 1982
• I Wish There Were Unicorns - 1983
• The Stone in the Meadow - 1983
• The Nine Days Queen - 1986
• Windward Island - 1989 (winner of the 1990 Max and Greta Ebel Award 1990)
• There Will be Wolves - 1992 (winner of the 1993 Canadian Library Association Young
• Thirteenth Child - 1994
• Animal Heroes - 1995
• Write Now! - 1996
• Shadows on a Sword - 1996
• More Animal Heroes - 1996
• Dragonfire - 1997
• The Haunting at Cliff House - 1998
• 'A different Kind of Companion - 1998
• Lionheart's Scribe - 1999
• Whisperings of Magic - 2001
• Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald, Johnstown, Quebec, 1783 - 2002
• Angeline - 2004
• You Can't Rush a Cat - 2004
• The Scarlet Cross - 2006