The Disappearance: Book launch (Hamilton, ON)

Join best-selling author

Gillian Chan

author of middle-grade and young adult

historical fiction, short stories and more

for the launch of her newest young adult book

The Disappearance

Written by Gillian Chan

Annick Press

978-1-55451-983-5

208 pp.

Ages 12+

September 2017

on

  Saturday, October 7, 2017

1:30 p.m.

at 

The Reading Room

Bryan Prince Bookseller

1060 King Street West

Hamilton, ON

I hope to review this book before the launch (thanks Annick Press for the review copy!) but, until it is posted, here is the publisher's take on what is sure to be a superbly suspenseful read:

A fast-paced, gritty mystery with a supernatural twist.

Jacob Mueller and Mike McCallum couldn’t be more different. After mystifying doctors, who finally decide that he is an elective mute, Jacob ends up in a juvenile group home, isolated, withdrawn, and bullied. Mike, also in the group home, is scarred physically and emotionally after the murder of his younger brother. He uses his horrific appearance, imposing size, sharp intelligence, and a calculated brutality to keep everyone at bay—until he encounters Jacob. Mike is fascinated by Jacob, particularly the way in which he seems able to shut out the world around him. This fascination becomes tinged with a mixture of awe and horror when Jacob starts to talk, and appears to have knowledge of Mike’s past, particularly of his dead brother. Mike takes it upon himself to solve the puzzle that is Jacob Mueller, and when he comes to the impossible conclusion that Jacob is from another time, he makes it his mission to return him home.

Retrieved from http://www.annickpress.com/Disappearance-The on September 28, 2017.

The lovely Gillian Chan promises

• a reading

• talk of books

• refreshments

• book sales and signing

and

possibly

• learning who disappeared and why.

Will you be there?

A Bedtime Yarn: Book launch (Hamilton, ON)

Picture book author

Nicola Winstanley

Cinnamon Baby illus. by Janice Nadeau (Kids Can Press, 2011)

The Pirate's Bed illus. by Matt James (Tundra, 2015)

launches her new book

A Bedtime Yarn

Written by Nicola Winstanley

Illustrated by Olivia Chin Mueller

Tundra Books

978-1-10191808-1

32 pp.

Ages 3-7

Release September 2017

on

 Saturday September 30, 2017

11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

at

Epic Books

226 Locke Street South

Hamilton, ON

This darling tale is described as:

Frankie is a little bear who has a hard time falling asleep. The dark is scary, and he hates to be alone. So his mother gives him a ball of yarn to hold when he goes to bed, and she keeps the other end in the next room, working it into a surprise for Frankie. 

Every few nights the yarn color changes, and Frankie dreams in all the colors that he and his mother pick out. One night he's swimming in turquoise water, another night he's in a cool gray fog. He plays with a marmalade kitten and eats delicious chocolate cake. Eventually Frankie and his mother create something special--and Frankie learns that he's always connected to those he loves, even when he's alone in the dark.

A beautiful story of love and crafting, A Bedtime Yarn will appeal to knitters, sleepy little bears and any parents dealing with their child's fear of the dark.

Retrieved from Penguin Random House site at http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/534052/bedtime-yarn#9781101918081

on September 12, 2017.

This book launch has all the hallmarks of a great event:

•  treats

•  crafts

•  story reading

•  book signing by the author

Do attend!

Telling Tales Tuesdays: Paul Covello (Hamilton, ON)

Paul Covello

 illustrator, designer, and motion graphics artist from Toronto
will present from his books

Canada ABC and Toronto ABC

and take you on a tour across the country using numbers and letters
 to explore all of the incredible things about Canada

for the final

Telling Tales Tuesdays

on 

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

at

Cotton Factory

at the Quilt of Belong Exhibit

270 Sherman Avenue North, Hamilton, Ontario L8L 6N4

There will also be interactive literacy activities 

with staff from the Hamilton Public Library.

Admission is free

Free parking is available

Telling Tales Tuesdays has been going on all summer (July 11-August 15) as a collaborative celebration of Canada’s 150th with Telling Tales Festival, and is funded by the Community Fund for Canada's 150th which includes the Hamilton Community Foundation and the Government of Canada.

Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/114471629176575/

Telling Tales Tuesday: Itah Sadu (Hamilton, ON)

 Itah Sadu

author of numerous well-loved books

and her most recent book

Greetings Leroy

Written by Itah Sadu

Illustrated by Alix Delinois

Groundwood Books

978-1-55498-760-3

32 pp.

Ages 4-7

May 2017

Reviewed here

for

Telling Tales Tuesdays

on 

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

at

Cotton Factory

at the Quilt of Belong Exhibit

270 Sherman Avenue North, Hamilton, Ontario L8L 6N4

There will be interactive literacy activities 

with staff from the Hamilton Public Library 

and

storytelling by author Itah Sadu, 

who will share traditional African stories and those of the Caribbean

Admission is free

Free parking is available

Telling Tales Tuesdays has been going on all summer (July 11-August 15) as a collaborative celebration of Canada’s 150th with Telling Tales Festival, and is funded by the Community Fund for Canada's 150th which includes the Hamilton Community Foundation and the Government of Canada.

Crushing It: Book launch (Hamilton, ON)

The very funny author

 Joanne Levy

who delighted readers with her 

Forest of Reading-nominated 

Small Medium at Large

by Joanne Levy

Bloomsbury Children's Books

978-1-59990-836-6

193 pp.

Ages 9-13

2012

Reviewed here

is back with another funny middle grade read

Crushing It

by Joanne Levy

Aladdin

978-1-4814-6473-4

240 pp.

Ages 9-13

January 2017

which she will launch 

on

Saturday, January 28, 2017

2-4 p.m.

at

Hamilton Public Library, Westdale Branch

955 King St. W.

Hamilton, ON

Joanne Levy promises a reading, a Q & A, swag, light refreshments and, of course, books for purchase and signing.

Although I can't share my review of Crushing It yet–read it, loved it, giggled repeatedly–I can reveal that it's a middle grade story of first crushes gone sideways, when twelve-year-old Kat ends up helping her cousin Olivia snare the boy next door, Tyler, who is so not into popularity-craving Olivia and more into Zombie-slashing gamer Kat.  If things can go wrong, they do, but with much hilarity, courtesy of Joanne Levy's funny (ha!ha!, not strange) writing.

The book is out today, though, so you can always purchase it now, read it and then bring it to the launch for an author's signature and some swag. Whatever way you do it, get the book, enjoy the story.