Day Four Down

Toronto today. What a busy day!

Most Memorable Moments

  • the boy who had written and illustrated his transportation story and read it to Scot and I in front of his fellow students
  • the beautiful pink potted plant given to me 
  • the audience of kids who, despite an indoor recess and pent up energy, were amazing attentive listeners

Sights Seen from a Train

  • for the first time in five days, no train today!

And the CCBC and TD Book Awards gala at night. Wonderful to see the winners announced and hear them speak. Self-centeredly even better to see my book displayed on a screen maybe 20 feet tall. I will have to write on it all later. Sensory overload!!!!

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Day Three Down

Today was Hamilton. Another couple great groups of kids, and an interview with Hamilton’s Cable 14.

Most Memorable Moments

  • the girl who, while lining up to go back to class after the presentation, turned to me and shyly said, “Thanks for your words.”
  • the posters about transportation a class had made and hung on the school hall wall to prepare for our visit

Sights Seen from the Train
Too dark to see much but too tired to read, so I stared out the window anyway…

  • the startling whoosh when trains whizzed by in the opposite direction
  • the polka dot parade of headlights on the street
  • glimpsing windows and their illuminated impressions of life 

And a bonus today:

Sight Seen from a Taxi

  • the Hefty Hoagie restaurant (doesn’t that sound like a perfect setting for some hometown drama novel?)
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Day Two Down

Kingston kids were terrific! I’ll post about all the week’s visits after the Book Week tour when I’m not so tired.

Most Memorable Moments

  • Being asked what it was like knowing so many kids would be reading my book (Awesome question from a grade 1 kid!!)
  • Being gifted with a school pen (I love pens!)
  • Hearing a Lebanese woman on the train talk about how she was travelling for love
  • Hearing two different cabbies dis their two (different) cities as the worst in Ontario

Sights Seen from the Train

  • The endless rippled blue of Lake Ontario
  • An older model tractor abandoned in a fallow field (Why….?)
  • A pile of TP on the lumpy green floor of the train bathroom which, sadly, I could see from my seat until someone unstuck the door and closed it (!!)
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Day One Down

Ottawa library presentations went well. Great groups of kids! I think presenting with Scot Ritchie is a great way for the kids to see how both the words and the pictures are made. I’ll post a roundup once the week’s done; small updates as I’m able.

Today’s Sights Seen from Train

  •  Sadly, none. It was too dark to see out the window.

Most Memorable Moment

  • Seeing Scot draw a hamster driving a station wagon to great gales of grade one laughter!
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