Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair: November 13-16, 2014

There's the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Book World Prague International Book Fair, and now we have Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair, right here in Canada.  Now we really are an international city!

From November 13 to 16, 2014, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building will become home, albeit temporary, to thousands of authors, illustrators, editors, publishers, exhibitors, workshop participants and readers.  And it's your chance to speak with, listen to, engage with and learn about all things book!

The schedule is extensive and available at http://www.torontobookfair.ca/schedule/ 
I can't possibly cover all those scheduled to read or speak or just be in attendance, but I can focus on some of the youngCanLit luminaries whom I will try to visit. (n.b.: this is an international book fair, so international book people, illustrators and authors, children's and adult, will be in attendance so you may also get to see some exceptional non-youngCanLit people as well. There are some. Okay, many.)

1. Kelley Armstrong 
2. Ashley Barron 
3. Hugh Brewster 
4. Sigmund Brouwer
5. Geneviève Côté 
6. Claudia Dávila 
7. Deborah Ellis 
8. Mimi Fay 
9. Beth Goobie 
10. Linda Granfield 
11. Jacqueline Guest 
12. Jon Klassen 
13. Gordon Korman 
14. Julie Kraulis 
15. Michael Kusugak 
16. Aaron Kylie 
17. Karen Levine 
18. Elly MacKay 
19. Kyo Maclear 
20. Rosemary McCarney 
21. Norah McClintock
22. Brian McLachlan 
23. Sylvia McNicoll 
24. Mireille Messier 
25. Sarah Mlynowski 
26. Evan Munday 
27. George Murray 
28. Mahtab Narsimhan 
29. Debbie Ridpath Ohi 
30. Ruth Ohi 
31. Shane Peacock
32. Kris Pearn 
33. David Poulsen 
34. Pierre Pratt 
35. Barbara Reid
36. Richard Scrimger
37. Alan Silberberg
38. Ashley Spires 
39. Ted Staunton
40. Patricia Storms
41. Allan Stratton 
42. Caitlin Sweet 
43. Kevin Sylvester 
44. Meg Tilley 
45. Vikki VanSickle 
46. Frank Viva 
47. Eric Walters
48. Mélanie Watt 
49. David Weale 
50. John Wilson
51. Cybèle Young 
52. E. Paul Zehr 

If you look back over three years of postings here on CanLit for LittleCanadians, you'll see the majority of these authors and illustrators have been covered.  And those who haven't been just tells me that I'd better get to reading and writing a little faster!

Enjoy  

Inspire!

Information about tickets, programming, authors, exhibitors, etc. is all available at the Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair website www.torontobookfair.ca