Susan Juby and Susin Nielsen: Book Launches

Two authors

two new books

The Truth Commission reviewed here

We Are All Made of Molecules reviewed here

many book launch events

CALGARY 

Monday, May 11, 2015

7:00 p.m.

Indigo CrossIron 

BRAMPTON

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

7 :00 p.m.

Chapters Brampton

TORONTO (North York)

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

7:00 p.m.

Toronto Public Library, North York Central Branch 

OTTAWA

Thursday, May 14, 2015

6:30 p.m.

Ottawa Public Library, Carlingwood Branch

VANCOUVER (Kitsilano)

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

7:00 p.m. 

Kidsbooks in Kitsilano

The Boundless: Book Launches (Canada and USA)

Award-winning author

of these favourites

Kenneth Oppel

launches his newest book and series

a middle-grade fantasy with trains, murder, steampunk automotons

and no-end adventure

The Boundless

by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada
978-1-443410328
336 pp.
Ages 10-14
Release April, 2014

While Kenneth Oppel will also be attending numerous schools, both in Canada and the United States,

most of the following tour dates at bookstores and such are open to all!

IN CANADA

April 26, 2014

2:00 PM
Chapters Brampton

Brampton, ON 

May 5, 2014

7:00 PM

Munro's Books
Victoria, BC 

May 6, 2014

9:15 AM

Belfry Theatre
Greater Victoria Public Library
Victoria, BC 

May 6, 2014

7:00 PM

Vancouver Kidsbooks
Teacher’s Night Event
3083 W Broadway
Vancouver, BC

May 7, 2014

7:00 PM

North Vancouver District Library 
(Lynn Valley branch)
1277 Lynn Valley Road 
North Vancouver, BC
 

May 10, 2014

2:00 PM

Fish Creek Library
11161 Bonaventure Dr SE 
Calgary, AB 

May 11, 2014

2:00 PM

Chapters Sherwood Park
#500 - 2020 Sherwood Drive 
Edmonton, AB

May 12, 2014

7:00 PM

McNally Robinson Grant Park
1120 Grant Avenue 
Winnipeg, MB 

May 14, 2014 

1:00 PM

Point Claire Public Library
Point Claire, QC

May 14, 2014
7:00 PM
Beaconsfield Public Library
303 Beaconsfield Boulevard 
Beaconsfield, QC

IN THE U. S.

April 28, 2014 

4:30 PM

Children's Book World

Philadelphia, PA

April 29, 2014 

10:30 AM

Politics and Prose

Washington, DC

April 30, 2014

6:30 PM

St. Charles City-County Library 

Spencer Rd. Branch 

St. Louis, MO

May 2, 2014 

7:00 PM

Anderson's Bookstore
Chicago/Naperville, IL

May 20, 2014

7:00 PM

Copperfield's Books
Petaluma, CA 

May 21, 2014
7:00 PM

Hicklebee's

San Francisco, CA 

May 22, 2014

7:00 PM
Reading Bug
San Carlos, CA

Get more details at
 Kenneth Oppel's blog at http://kennethoppel.blogspot.ca/ 

and

check out the book trailer  here.

Weeds Find a Way: Book Launch (Calgary)

What a perfect beginning to gardening season and spring!

Illustrator

Carolyn Fisher

invites youngCanLit readers to celebrate
the recent release of her non-fiction picture book

Weeds Find a Way

by Cindy Jenson-Elliott

Illustrated by Carolyn Fisher

Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster
 978-1442412606
40 pp.
Ages 4-8
Released February, 2014

Join her

on

Saturday, April 26, 2014

at 

2:00 p.m. 

Monkeyshines

Calgary, Alberta

Listen to the story, then make some weedy art!

Everyone welcome!

Uploaded from http://www.carolynfisher.com/videos/

Book Rapport: WordFest (Calgary)

WordFest is a literary festival held in Banff and Calgary, bringing readers and writers together through readings, performance, panel discussions and interviews.  A part of WordFest is its educational program, First Calgary Financial Book Rapport, when children and youth will have the opportunity to experience the power of stories.

Welcome to Book Rapport!

For five days each October, Book Rapport hosts an eclectic mix of talent, bringing the ideas and words of great writers alive and up close to youth in Calgary and Banff. In 2012, over 6,600 students experienced these fun and engaging events in various cultural venues in Calgary and in schools.

This year's list of authors for children and young adults includes both youngCanLit authors and illustrators (names in colour) and those from outside Canada:

• Marie-Louise Gay, author and illustrator of Read Me a Story Stella, When Stella Was Very, Very Small, Caramba and Henry

• Eric Walters, picture book and middle-grade fiction author of My Name is Blessing, The Matatu, Camp X, and Between Heaven and Earth

• Monica Kulling, children's fiction and non-fiction of Lumpito and the Painter from Spain, Going Up: Elisha Otis's Trip to the Top, Mister Dash and the Cupcake Calamity, and Making Contact: Marconi Goes Wireless

• Teresa Toten, YA author of The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B, The Taming, and Me and the Blondes

• David Ward, author of picture books and children's fiction including One Hockey Night, The Hockey Tree and Escape the Mask

• Barbara Reid, plasticine illustrator and author of Perfect Snow, Read Me a Story and Fox Walked Alone

• Alan Silberberg, author of illustrated middle-grade books Milo and his newest The Awesome Almost 100% True Adventures of Matt and Craz

• Cary Fagan, children's fiction author of Oy Feh So?, Mr. Zinger's Hat, The Boy in the Box and The Fortress of Kaspar Snit

• Rhéa Dufresne, l'auteure de Arachnéa

• Wallace Edwards, illustrator and author of Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe, Alphabeasts and Monkey Business

• Hélène Koscielniak, l'auteure de Filleul et de Marraine

• Glen Huser, young adult author of The Runaway, Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen and Stitches

• André Jacob, l'auteur de Le Journal de Guerre d'Emilio