Come Feast With Me
April 3, 2008 is the Feast of Authors in Toronto. If you love books, over 80 authors (including myself) are appearing at the St Lawrence Market North in support of books, reading, this April’s 10th anniversary as National Poetry Month, and the Toronto Dollar’s 10th Anniversary.
Acclaimed author Joy Kogawa talks about the event in this article from The Toronto Star. More too at The Toronto Dollar Project or the Facebook Event Page:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=843630703&k=Z4FX44V3326M5CB1UCW6SS
The Particulars:
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008
Time: 6:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Location: St. Lawrence Market North
Northwest corner of Front & Jarvis
92 Front St. E., Toronto
Admission: Free
For more information here are the Media Contacts:
Marilyn Hotta, Author Liaison
moolyn@hotmail.com
Joan Campbell, Publicity Coordinator
joancampbell@sympatico.ca
416-363-2164
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Literacy Night
I had the chance to talk reading and writing at a Literacy Night along with my good friend and fellow writer Caroline Rennie Pattison. She talked to the older kids in the crowd and I got the younger ones.
The kids were great. They chanted with me as I read some poems I’d had published in Babybug magazine and did all the actions for the different ways to travel in Let’s Go! One little girl even eyed my rubber froggie, a prop for The Nature Treasury. She looked like she wanted to pick it up and abscond with it. It was one of those moments when, as a speaker, you’re trying to keep your presentation going but you’re all the while thinking “Okay, do I ignore this or do something…and what?” Luckily her mom solved my dilemma.
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre gave every child there a free book to take home.
The local paper did a nice writeup of the entire evening (even if I do hate the picture of myself). You can read more here.
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Mega-Book Launch
It was a great opportunity to launch my book with other talented authors and illustrators at the Cancaip Mega-Book Launch at the OLA Superconference on Friday February 1st. Check out all the terrific book creators (in alphabetical order) with whom I shared the podium:
James Bow
Fathom Five, Dundurn Press
Veronika Martenova Charles
Don’t Walk Alone At Night!, Tundra Books
Don’t Go In There!, Tundra Books
Marina Cohen
Shadow of the Moon, Vanwell Publishing
Lois Donovan
Winds of L’Acadie, Ronsdale Press Inc.
Rachna Gilmore
Making Grizzle Grow, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Holly Tsun Haggarty
Summer Dragons, Napoleon Publishing
Emily Hearn
Our New Home, Second Story Press
Ben Hodson
Jeffrey and Sloth, Orca Book Publishers
Jennifer Lanthier
The Mystery of the Martello Tower: A Hazel Frump Adventure, HarperCollins Canada
Peggy Leavey
Treasure at Turtle Lake, Napoleon Publishing
Loris Lesynski
Shoe Shakes: Poems for Preschoolers, Annick Press
Elizabeth MacLeod
Alexander Graham Bell, Kids Can Press
Helen Keller, Kids Can Press
George Washington Carver: An Innovative Life, Kids Can Press
Sylvia McNicoll
Last Chance for Paris, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Beth Pollock
Harley’s Gift, James Lorimer and Company
Virginia Frances Schwartz
4 Kids in 5E & 1 Crazy Year, Scholastic Canada
Marsha Skrypuch
Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake Quebec, 1914, Scholastic Canada
Patricia Storms
13 Ghosts of Halloween, Scholastic Canada
So get prepared: there’s your March Break reading list if I ever saw one!!
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A Fabulous First Visit
I had a great visit with a kindergarten class last Friday. Thanks Mrs Nichols and Mrs Kamachi! We read Let’s Go! We pretended to walk, canoe, gallop, sail, chug-chug-choo-choo, fly fast, and blast into space. We found the dog Scot Ritchie hid in his illustrations.
Here’s me. There are kids there, honestly. I’m checking on permission about showing pics of the kids but for now here it is cropped in tightly to show only me.
This was my first reading for Let’s Go! It’s been several years since I last did presentations to classes. I love four and five year olds! But I was struck once more by the realization that it’s not to my best advantage to ask open-ended questions to this age group. Unless, that is, I wanted to hear about last night’s dinner or the time when that dad’s car got stuck and they had to call in the tow truck and….
They were an excellent audience. The best moment was when, after I read the line “Iron steam ships chewed the miles of sea,” one boy at the front looked pensive and said “Chewed?” That prompted a great talk about why I chose that word as opposed to another (sailed, crossed, traveled, etc.) and about the feeling I had hoped to invoke in readers when they came across that word. We all chewed on that for awhile. (Cool, it worked!!)
I hope they enjoyed our time together as much as I did. Thank you!
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No part of this blog may be used without written permission from the author.
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