Sylvia McNicoll

The week before March break, I was stricken with one of those annoying colds that makes your throat sore for three days and then launches you into a full blown sneezy wheezy grumpy dopey (and all the other dwarves) colds. The irony was the teachers at Charles Beaudoin…

Wednesday at Charles Beaudoin I led a workshop with grade 5s on character. Then, while currently I forget the names of the great teacher and student teacher in the background, I did remember to take a Go really cleans Other fully…

First of all we need to change the title since YouTube is a trademark. So we have suggestions from grade 5 at Charles Beaudoin: Killing on the Internet, Death on a Skateboard (mine), Killing on Video. Well as brainstorming goes, I’ve come up with this one…

Wednesday I took some of my favourite people to see Disney on Ice–these were complimentary passes from my employer Rogers–I’m the features editor for Today’s Parent Toronto. Also we needed to squeeze in a restaurant review, called Whine and…

You think that it would be a relief to type “The End” when you’re done a book. First of all many writers don’t even do that–they type “-30-” some old-fashioned printer’s code to signal not to look further for more text…

I can’t remember having a better time than at this years CANSCAIP Launch. So many different approaches. Some read–authors read beautifully. Some sang–yes authors sing beautifully. Ted Staunton played At Amazon it pharmacystore for an more. Had…