Sylvia McNicoll

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Hurray for grade 8 students (at Jack Chambers Public School) Nishit, Justin And Sumar. They created this dramatic book trailer and they honoured copyright! Thank you to Mrs. Gulliver too for inspiring (or maybe just assigning) her students to look at a book more…

We’d rather be writing still I think most readers would be surprised how often an author must stop to research things even for fiction. It ruins the right brain flow if we’re not absolutely sure about say, how a school might evacuate during a bomb threat….

We competed against Toronto’s best and brightest young readers and we didn’t lose.  Oh sure, you think authors should score high on a quiz about books.  What about a quiz on cartoons, cats, finance, flowers, prisons and prisoners, body parts, and beasts in…

  Friday, February 1, 2013,  CANSCAIP authors and illustrators celebrated their new creations with their favourite people, librarians.  Who likes books better?  As usual I cruised the aisles as did fellow volunteers Lena Coakley (author of Witchlanders) and…

Multi-media, I love the sound of that word. As writers, our chosen media is usually print but Ontario Library Association wanted to produce some 15 second radio commercials to publicize the fantastic Forest of Reading Program. Because my novel crush. candy. corpse is…