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.