March 04, 2014

Celebrate World Read Aloud Day (March 5) with youngCanLit authors


If you're fortunate enough to have someone read aloud to you this day, enjoy.  Or if you can read aloud to a child, a class, a loved one, then do it.  The intimacy of words dispersed from one person to another is something that can rarely be duplicated.  But, if you'd like to listen to a youngCanLit author read aloud from his or her own work, enjoy these selected readings for World Read Aloud Day, several of which were produced by our wonderful Canadian Children's Book Centre. (n.b. There are so many more youngCanLit authors reading from their books on the Canadian Children's Book Centre channel including Kathy Stinson, Richard Scrimger, Patricia Storms, Marsha Skrypuch, Sylvia McNicoll, Richard Scarsbrook, Rosemary McCarney, Karen Krossing, Stephanie McLellan, Kari-Lynn Winters, Rick Revelle, Maggie de Vries, Cora Taylor, Helaine Becker, Amanda West Lewis, Jan Coates and Beverley Terrell-Deutsch.  Whew!  The CCBC has done an astounding job of getting our youngCanLit authors and illustrators to read from their own books.  Well done, CCBC!)



Jan Andrews: Rude Stories 
Tundra, 2010

Uploaded by Jan Andrews on November 9, 2010 to YouTube.



Marty Chan: The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2013
Uploaded by Canadian Children's Book Centre on February 24, 2014 to YouTube  
   


K.V. Johansen: The Storyteller and Other Tales     
Sybertooth, 2008
Uploaded by SybertoothInc. on April 18, 2011 to YouTube.



K.V. Johansen: Torrie and the Pirate Queen
Annick, 2005
Uploaded by SybertoothInc. on April 18, 2011 to YouTube.



Barbara Reid: Perfect Snow         
Scholastic Canada, 2009
Uploaded by BarbaraReidAuthor on February 16, 2014 to YouTube.



Arthur Slade:  Jolted        
HarperCollins, 2008   
 Uploaded by the Canadian Children's Book Centre on February 24, 2014 to YouTube  



Kevin Sylvester: Neil FlambĂ© and the Tokyo Treasure 
Simon & Schuster, 2012         
Uploaded by the Canadian Children's Book Centre on February 27, 2014 to YouTube.



Robert Paul Weston: Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff
Razorbill, 2013 
Uploaded by the Canadian Children's Book Centre on February 24, 2014 to YouTube  




 Happy World Read Aloud Day! 




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