Weeks Past, Present and Future
Ack! What happened to last week? Two out of three kids home sick…one PD day…tour details to attend to.
Tour?
Yes:
5 Cities
5 Days
11 Presentations
That will be next week for me. Canadian Children’s Book Week beginning November 14 will see me in Ottawa, Kingston, Hamilton, Toronto, and London. This is this year’s poster.
I’m really looking forward to touring with Scot Ritchie as we talk to kids about our Grade 1 Giveaway Book. Hope everyone celebrates with a book or two–or seven (it’s a WEEK after all).
I’ll try to blog about it. But this means there’s technology to master this week, and maybe some other posts here on some other stuff I’ve been up to this year.
If you smell smoke, it’s not your neighbour burning leaves, it’s my brain.
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I Got the Giveaways!
The courier came with my copies of the TD Grade One Giveaway editions of Let’s Go! and On y va!
Wow. They are lovely. What can I say? Thank you to all involved!
It’s the first time I’ve seen the French edition. Someone around here remarked to me that they didn’t know I spoke French that well. Um, like I told them, I don’t. The credit for that goes to the translators. My grade 13 French is a little rusty, but I did manage to read the translation. Fascinating to see my words transformed into another language. And high praise to them for making the translation work in the space they had to fit it into!
I’m looking forward to touring some of Southern Ontario this coming Book Week. Appropriately enough, it might involved several modes of transportation (car, train, bus…).
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My Secret Identity–Revealed!
In the past week two people I interact with in different capacities during regular parental life have told me their kids have received my book at school (and really enjoyed it, but of course!). Obviously some schools in my area are already giving out their TD Grade One Giveaway books. Both individuals never knew I was an author.
That gives me cause to pause.
I’m not hiding the fact that I write from my everyday life, but I suppose I don’t proclaim it either. Why does it feel a little like my secret identity has been revealed, my cover is blown? I’ve never actively tried to keep my author job title a secret. Maybe I’m just not good at self promotion. Maybe I’m shy.
Soon there will be about 500,000 kids with my book in hand. That’s awesome…humbling…and maybe more than a little difficult to really wrap my head around. As part of the Giveaway program, it looks like Scot Ritchie, the book’s illustrator, and I will be touring some of southern Ontario for Canadian Children’s Book Week. I won’t be able to hide behind my identity as just a normal mom then, will I? It should be–gulp–fun!
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Proof in the Page Proof
Yesterday’s email brought an exciting surprise: a page proof! I got to verify the punctuation and wording for my poem, “Bedtime Teeth.”
It’s to be in an anthology called Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems, and it’s edited by none other than Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters, illustrated by G. Brian Karas, and to be published in March 2010 by Candlewick. It’s a companion to this lovely book:
The poem I share the page with, by Kaye Umansky, is terrific, and the artwork for our page is perfect! Bright, colourful, lots of fun! I’ve pinched myself. The proof was proof that I wasn’t really imagining all this!
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