Virtual Visit List and Two New Members!
Valerie Sherrard
Dear Teachers and Librarians,
Next week will be our final newsletter until September. However, we will be checking our mail throughout the summer and will be happy to help you with your fall booking needs at any time. Our response time may be a little slower, but should never been more than a few days.
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Still to come ...
Bits of News
Welcome Eric Zweig and Karen Bass!
Author Availability Section with our Virtual Visit Line-up for Fall
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Bits of News
Monique Polak's
Holocaust YA, What World is Left and Shelley
Hrdlitschka's YA, Sister Wife have been nominated for the
YALSA Best Books list for 2009.
Congratulations to these 2010 Manitoba Young
Readers' Choice Award nominees:
Vicki Grant's
Res Judicata
Monique Polak's What World is Left
Alma Fullerton's Libertad
Shane Peacock's
Death in the Air
Meg Tilley's Maybe Later and Janet
Wilson's One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists have both been chosen
by the Bank Street Book Committee as Best Children's Books of the Year.
Kathy Stinson is one of three authors participating in the event: “Panel Discussion: Authors on Landscape Architecture” at the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects 75th Anniversary conference in Toronto this August. Some of you might be surprised to learn that Kathy’s publishing achievements include the non-fiction title: Love Every Leaf: The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. In classroom presentations about this work, Kathy chats about the writing of her book about a woman (now 87 years old) who is still active in the profession she chose for herself at the age of 11. The book touches on Holocaust history, women's struggle for equality, and solutions to environmental issues. Grades 6 and up.
Check out
this terrific G&M review of Hal
Niedzviecki’s latest book: The Peep
Diaries:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/the-peep-diaries-by-hal-niedzviecki/article1164791/
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Welcome Eric Zweig and Karen Bass
Ever since he was a child, Eric Zweig has been all about sports! In 1985, after graduating from Trent University, he began writing about sports. By 1999, branched out and began to write for children too. His sports books for children and young adults include both fiction, and non-fiction titles.
An ideal presenter for sports-mad students and reluctant readers. Author of 11 sports books for kids, including Hockey Trivia for Kids, On This Day in Hockey, and Crazy Canucks: The Uphill Battle of Canada's Downhill Ski Team.
Eric has been an on-air guest on dozens of television and radio programs and appeared as a “Hockey Philosopher” in the CBC series Hockey: A People’s History.
More about Eric here: http://authorsbooking.com/2043/authors/Eric_Zweig.html
If you haven’t yet read anything by Alberta author Karen Bass, chances are good you soon will. Karen’s fascinating first book, Run Like Jager, combines the inspiration of a cousin who took part in an exchange program and Karen’s long-standing interest in World War Two.
This compelling work won Karen both the Christian High School Book Club 2009 Readers' Choice award and the 2009 CAA Exporting Alberta award. The Alberta award will mean a visit to Ontario this fall. Book early as time slots may go quickly!
For more information about Karen, visit: http://authorsbooking.com/2043/authors/Karen_Bass.html
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Author Availability:
It’s A GREAT TIME to start planning for the fall!
ASK US ABOUT POSSIBLE SUBSIDIES!
Coming this fall from Out-of-Province:
Valerie Sherrard: Available September 22 - 25 following the Eden Mills Festival.
Margriet Ruurs: Visiting the GTA from September 28 – October 2.
David Poulsen: Visiting various parts of Ontario October 19 – 23.
kc dyer: Visiting the GTA in October.
Karen Bass: Visiting the GTA and surrounding areas October 15 to 23
Joan Galat: Visiting the GTA in early November.
Don Aker to visit the GTA in November: available for school visits on the 11, 12 and 13.
The following ABS members will be offering Virtual Visits as of this fall.
Don Aker
Tara Anderson
Linda Bailey
Matt Beam
Helaine Becker
Jake Berkowitz
Marina Cohen
kc dyer
L.M. Falcone
Alma Fullerton
Joan Galat
Natale Ghent
Vicki Grant
Nate Hendley
David Jardine
Laura Langston
Peggy Dymond Leavey
Anita MacArthur
Carol Matas
Mahtab Narsimhan
Karen Patkau
Monique Polak
Margriet Ruurs
Richard Scrimger
Valerie Sherrard
Jocelyn Shipley
Lesley Simpson
Art Slade
Allan Stratton
Gail Sobat
Marsha Skrypuch
Meg Tilly
Robert Weston
Details coming soon!
Ontario Authors Now
Accepting 2009 - 2010 School Year Bookings!
These members are listed by their usual locations in
order to help you figure out approximate travel costs when booking them. Contact
us to ask about dates.
GTA: Matt Beam, Helaine Becker, Veronika
Martenova Charles, John Chipman, Marina Cohen, Ray Conlogue, Anne Dublin, Hadley
Dyer, LM Falcone, Andrew Feindel, Alma Fullerton, Natale Ghent, Nate Hendley,
Karen Krossing, Jennifer Lanthier, Deb Loughead, Paul Matthews, Robin Muller,
Mahtab Narsimhan, Hal Niedzviecki, Gail Nyoka, Karen Patkau, Richard Scarsbrook,
Jocelyn Shipley, Lesley Simpson, Martin Springett, Patricia Storms, Allan
Stratton, Edo Van Belkom, Jessica Westhead, Frieda Wishinsky and The Royal Pest
Team (Anita Reynolds MacArthur and Karen Roy).
Oshawa/Kingston
corridor: Tara Anderson, Wallace Edwards, Celia Godkin, Peggy Dymond Leavey,
Shane Peacock, Richard Scrimger, Robert Sutherland, Allan Stratton, Jan
Thornhill, Joe Weissmann
Ottawa/Montreal: Rachna Gilmore, Monique
Polak, Jill Murray, Alexander Herman
Hamilton/Guelph/Waterloo:
Robin Baird Lewis, Jo Ellen Bogart, James Bow, Gillian Chan, Svetlana Chmakova,
Marsha Skrypuch, Kathy Stinson, Janet Wilson
North of Toronto:
Alma Fullerton, Curtis Parkinson, Cora Taylor, Eric
Zweig
Sarnia/Leamington/Windsor: Nancy Belgue
LONDON
NIAGARA LIST:
Lynne Kositsky is now living in Vineland! In addition
to presentations to older students, Lynne and her husband are offering a special
half hour presentations for JK, K and SK. Their fee for these shorter sessions
is half their hourly rate --
$150.00 for a half hour program.
Authors who will travel to the London/Niagara Falls areas (contact us for more details): Helaine Becker, Nancy Belgue, Jo Ellen Bogart, James Bow, Marina Cohen, Hadley Dyer, Andrew Feindel & Paul Matthews, Alma Fullerton, Gail Nyoka, Vicki Grant, Karen Krossing, Shane Peacock, Richard Scarsbrook, Richard Scrimger, Valerie Sherrard, Marsha Skrypuch, Kathy Stinson, Allan Stratton, Janet Wilson, John Wilson, Frieda Wishinsky.
Save on Travel Costs for these dates and locations:
Celia Godkin is available for readings in the GTA on November 9 and 10.
Shane Peacock is available in Whitby on October 21.
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Marsha & Valerie
If, for any reason, you have difficulty reaching us at ABS, please contact either of us at home. Valerie: val...@nbnet.nb.ca Marsha: mar...@calla.com