Author Visit News for the week of March 21, 2007
Authors Booking
Hope you all had a fabulous March break! Have you got to the bottom of your inbox yet?
In this issue you will find...
** Our newest member – Tololwa Mollel!
** Quick links!
** Meet the Author: Kathy Stinson!
** THINK! – Last week's solution, this week's puzzle.
** Win an autographed book!
** Which out-of-province authors will be visiting soon
** Which Ontario authors will be in your area
** Book and nomination news!
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Our newest author: Tololwa Mollel!
Authors' Booking Service is pleased to announce that Edmonton-based children's author, storyteller and theatre man, Tololwa M. Mollel, is now scheduling visits to Ontario schools for the Eden Mills and nearby communities during the week of September 10 to 14, 2007.
Tololwa's Governor General award-winning picture book, The Orphan Boy, is being re-released in a beautiful new edition in the fall of 2007.
Tololwa has combined his storytelling, writing and dramatic skills in various theatrical projects and other creative work for children. Tololwa has presented and performed widely in schools, libraries, and at conferences, conventions and book festivals across Canada and the U.S. Of his presentations he says, "I always aim to provide a feast, for the ear, the eye and equally important, the mind."
To find out more about Tololwa and his presentations, go here
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Quick Links!
See a complete list of our authors go here .
Check out information in past newsletters by going here.
To book an author visit, reply to this message or email us at authors.boo...@gmail.com
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Meet the Author: Kathy Stinson
Kathy Stinson's
collection of short stories - 101 Ways to Dance - is hot! As well as
being named a Top Ten YA Book of 2006 by the OLA, it has been
shortlisted for the CLA YA Book of the Year award. Also, a teen is
interviewing Kathy about the book and related issues of sexuality for
the summer issue of What If? magazine.
The clue that Kathy Stinson has had a lifelong love of reading is in the wide range of books that she has written. "What you read," she says, "influences what you write. And so does the day to day life that you live."
That's why some of Kathy's characters have argued with parents and friends, and had cozy chats with them; have had trouble sleeping and ridden bikes along dirt paths; have fallen for someone in the summer and walked both beaches and city streets. Kathy says, "It's also fun, as a writer, to imagine yourself into situations unlike your own." That's what she did when she wrote about Marie-Claire, the girl who lived through a smallpox epidemic in Montreal in 1885, and Mr. Elliot, the caretaker who waited till he was a grandfather before he learned to read.
Kathy long ago taught school for five years - in the west end of Toronto where she grew up. She is the mother of two grown children, who inspired some of her earliest books. (She now has over 30 titles to her credit which include young adult fiction, novels for middle readers, picture books, non-fiction, and stories in magazines.) She also has two grown stepdaughters and five grandchildren. They all know that any time Kathy is out buying them a present, chances are good that it will be . . . a book. Of course!
For more information on Kathy. Go here.
THINK! Brain Teasers, Word Puzzles, Logic Problems…
Answer to last week's puzzle:
LINE (bowline, lineage)
TIC (genetic, ticking)
SCAPE (landscape, scapegoat)
IT (digit, itself)
ROT (parrot, rotate) or DON (pardon, donate)
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The
blanks in the following sentences will be filled in with three
different homonyms (words that are spelled differently but sound alike)
to make valid sentences. The dashes indicate the number of letters in
the words. Can you fill in the blanks?
1. The cut on his _ _ _ _ won't _ _ _ _ in time for the race, so _ _ '_ _ have to drop out.
2. The man was so upset about being _ _ _ _ that he regularly _ _ _ _ _ _ himself up on the bed and _ _ _ _ _ _ his eyes out.
3. I couldn't _ _ _ _ _ any of the _ _ _ _ _ _ in the flower shop,
because for some strange reason I had 50 _ _ _ _ _ crammed up my nose.
4. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the _ _ _ _ and essentially _ _ _ _ _ everything he _ _ _ _.
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Win an autographed book…
Have you booked an author with us in the past? Then you are eligible for our draw. Send us your details!
Here's how it works:
Your name is entered into the draw once for each session
you book with one of our authors. So, if you booked one author for one
session, you will be entered once. If you booked one author for three
sessions, you will be entered three times, and so on.
Please note that your entry will go into the draw on the month of the visit, and not at the time of booking.
Winners each choose a book, the author inscribes the book and mails it to the winner.
The first book draws (for 10 books) will take place at the end of March and will include all prior author visits arranged by this service. You must send in details of your author visits to be entered in the draw! (Month, author and number of sessions.)
After the first draw, three books will be won each month during the school year.
For a list of books available to win, go here.
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Authors Coming From Out of Province!
Linda Bailey: May for the Blue Spruce Award. Toronto, Mississauga, Brantford, Waterloo.
Vicki Grant: Toronto – first week of April; Ottawa – last week of April.
Michael Kusugak: Fall 2007. Toronto and surrounding area.
Adrienne Mason: May 10 – 18. Toronto area.
Carol Matas: June 11, 12 & 13: Toronto area.
Valerie Sherrard: Ottawa, April 23 & 24. Toronto & within 300 kms: April 30 - May 4.
Larry Verstraete: April 30 – May 04. Within 250 kilometres of Ottawa.
John Wilson: May 9 to 11, Sarnia, around the Red Maple & White Pine Awards. Toronto.
John is able to visit schools in the GTA during the week of May 21st, but these must be booked before March 26th.
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Ontario Authors Coming your way!
Peggy Dymond Leavey (Silver Birch 2007 nominee) will be in the Ottawa area and available for bookings Tuesday, April 24. She will be in the Toronto area and available for bookings Monday, May 14; Tuesday, May 15; Friday, May 18. She is available for bookings from now until the end of the school year within a 250 km radius of Trenton, Ont. This area includes Ottawa, Petawawa and Huntsville.
Nancy Belgue (Silver Birch 2007 nominee) available for Toronto and London areas on April 23 to 26. She is available in Mississauga on May 1, and is available to travel from Kingsville as far as to the GTA on these dates:Friday, March 23, Monday, April 2, Tuesday, April 3, Friday, April 6, Monday, April 9, Monday, April 16, Friday, April 20
Helaine Becker (Silver Birch non-fiction winner, 2006) available for Barrie, May 8
Marsha Skrypuch (Silver Birch 2007 nominee) available in Newmarket/Aurora April 12
Frieda Wishinsky (Red Maple 2007) is available in the Kitchener area April 25th or 27th. Shared costs. Oakville April 9 and 11th, and Friday May 4th in the London area.
Veronika Martenova Charles will be in Windsor on April 19, and Tillsonburg on June 6.
Cora Taylor be in Sauble Beach and available for school readings in Ontario from May 20th to the end of June.
Gail Nyoka (Silver Birch
2007 nominee) will be in Innisfil on June 4th and is available for one
reading in the area -- Bradford, East Gwillimbury, Keswick -- in the
afternoon. She is also available at other times within driving distance
of Guelph.
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Book and Nomination news
Helaine Becker's Like a Pro is a finalist in Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Awards for 2006
Kathy Stinson's collection of short stories - 101 Ways to Dance has been named a Top Ten YA Book of 2006 by the OLA and has been shortlisted for the CLA YA Book of the Year award!
Do you have questions, comments or suggestions about this service? We'd love to hear from you!
All the best,
Marsha & Valerie
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Connecting Canadian Creators and Educators
If unable to reach us here, please contact Marsha at mar...@calla.com or Valerie at val...@nbnet.nb.ca