Monthly Archives: May 2013
Talking Blank Pages and Fashion Choices with the Huffington Post
In other book news, I will (with many, many other authors) be at Trinity Bellwoods Park on Saturday, June 22nd for a Literary Picnic, part of Toronto’s 2013 Luminato Festival. There will be over 60 authors on three stages reading from our recent books and talking about starting to write a story. In addition to [...]
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Tagged Ed Hardy, Huffington Post, Literary Picnic, Luminato
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Festival of Trees Recap
On Wednesday, May 15, and Thursday, May 16, the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading‘s Festival of Trees dropped down at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, and over two days, thousands of kids from all over the Greater Toronto Area (and even as far as Orillia!) came to cheer on their favourite books on the Forest of [...]
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Tagged brit trogen, forest of reading, Harbourfront Centre, kari trogen, Making Bombs for Hitler, Making Plans for Nigel, Maragaret and the Moth Tree, marsha skrypuch, No Shelter Here, Rob Laidlaw, silver birch, XTC
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Traversing the (Near) North
Last week, as part of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading tour – think of a U.S.O. tour, but with children’s authors and only within Ontario – I travelled to Parry Sound and North Bay with a team of great writers (and one excellent OLA staff member, Meredith). The experience was both surreal and [...]
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Tagged bill swan, bobby orr, brit trogen, dionne quintuplets, forest of reading, janet wilson, kari trogen, marsha skrypuch, natalie hyde, north bay, ontario library association, parry sound, ringette, steve pitt, wesley king
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