Authors in your Neighborhood
Bringing fun to reading and writing, that’s always been my goal. The joy of meeting the author–that should be accessible to all and it should start when you’re a child. Which is why every year I apply to the City of Burlington Culture Fund to give kids an up-close experience with a writer from their own town. I call the project “Authors in your Neighborhood.” This year we have five writers and one illustrator to create with the kids: Lana Button in August, Jennifer Maruno is September, Anitha Rao-Robinson in November, Jennifer Faria, our illustrator, in December and me to finish off our program with an all family invited fun afternoon of playing with words. As a bonus, we also have a picture book panel in the Literary Festival so everyone can learn about the process of creating. Watch for the Burlington Library eblasts and register.
Hurray for Canadian Children’s Book Week!
You can write the best story ever but if a book lands on a bookshelf and no one notices, it doesn’t get read. Canadian kids’ books compete with those from the behemouth to the south, complete with Hollywood platforms, full colour illustrations and sparkling covers. One of our publicity paths is visiting schools. We talk about writing process in conjunction with our creations and intrigue the students, not only with reading our books, but possibly writing their own stories. And there’s a side product. We are Canadian success stories and if we can do it, so can they. Not only with writing but all the other dreams they have. Thanks to the Canadian Children’s Book Centre I visited Quebec City classrooms, a German International school, many Montreal classrooms as well as (Mohawk) Akwesasne School, a dream of mine. I know my friend-a-leagues and I had fun and were inspired by the kids too!
You can write the best book
Blue to the Sky–the trailer!
Allergic-to-Everything girl comes alive in this book trailer for Blue to the Sky! 12 year old Ella is one of my favourite characters ever. You’ll love her. She’s so quirky.
CCBC Book Week Tour!
Happy to have been selected to tour, in person, the province I think of as my long lost home, Quebec. For these tours, the cost drops significantly so it’s a great opportunity for a school to engage their young readers with a writer they may not know yet. Having written for 35 years and visited libraries and schools across Canada for the same amount of time, I think of myself as a grandmother of literacy.. I love the kids and my work. Passion inspires across the board, not just for reading and writing. You’ll see if you host me. Because the profile I’ve posted here is a screen shot, the pink hyperlink button won’t work. Here’s the application link, nice and long: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPAM6jf7KIl2RN9LgJ2AzZ9swgizIOojcGXxcj8v07gQXTAg/viewform?pli=1
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