Ottawa Public Library presents Teen Author Fest 2018 (Ottawa, ON)

On

 Saturday, October 27, 2018

12-5 p.m.

the Ottawa Public Library 

presents

Teen Author Fest 2018

a free event with 11 French- and English-language 
writers of stories for young adults

Lucile de Pesloüan 

Pourquoi les filles ont mal au ventre?

Émilie Rivard

1re avenue

Sophie Labell

Ciel

Hadley Dyer

Here So Far Away

Susan Glickman

The Discovery of Flight

Tiffany D. Jackson

Monday’s Not Coming

E.K. Johnston

That Inevitable Victorian Thing

Sarah Raughley

Siege of Shadows

Justin Joschko

Yellow Locust

Star Spider

Past Tense

Reviewed here

Danielle Younge-Ullman

Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

Reviewed here

There will be workshops,
panel discussions, 
author signings, 
a meet-and-greet, 
and 
book sales (through Octopus Books).

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All events will take place at

Ottawa Public Library Sunnyside branch 

1049 Bank Street

and

across the street at 

Southminster United Church 

15 Aylmer Avenue

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This is a free event!

Details about the schedule and authors and their books are available on the Teen Author Fest pages at https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/content/teen-author-fest (English) or at https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/fr/content/festival-des-auteurs-pour-ados (French)

The Ruinous Sweep: Multiple Ontario book launches

Governor General Award winning author

Tim Wynne-Jones

is launching his newest young adult novel

The Ruinous Sweep

Written by Tim Wynne-Jones

Candlewick Press

978-0-7637-9745-7

400 pp.

Ages 14+

June 2018

at multiple launches in Ontario over the next few weeks.

Do take in at least one
and get your own copy signed by the author himself.


When and where are the launches?
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June 26, 2018

7-9 p.m.

25One Community
251 Bank St. 2nd floor

Ottawa, ON

Details

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July 4, 2018

6-8 p.m.

Ben McNally Books

366 Bay St.

Toronto, ON

Details

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July 7, 2018

1- 3 p.m.

The Book Nook & Other Treasures
60 Gore Street East

Perth, ON

Details

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July 18, 2018

7 - 9 p.m.

Novel Idea

156 Princess Street

Kingston, ON

Details

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
We'll be doing lots here at CanLit for LittleCanadians to promote The Ruinous Sweep including:

• My review on Tuesday, June 26, 2018

• A Q & A with Tim Wynne-Jones on Wednesday, June 27, 2018

AND (here's the best part)

• a giveaway for a free audio book of The Ruinous Sweep, read by Tim Wynne-Jones. Just leave a comment on the Q & A post between June 27 and July 3 (noon EST) and we'll do a random draw and notify the winner via the comment reply. (Sorry, the giveaway is limited to residents of Canada and the US only.)

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Caroline Pignat speaks at Ottawa Children's Literature Roundtable (Ottawa)

Caroline Pignat

author of

multiple award-winning books

 Egghead (Red Deer Press, 2007)

Greener Grass (Red Deer Press, 2008)

Wild Geese (Red Deer Press, 2010)

Timber Wolf (Red Deer Press, 2011)

Unspeakable (Razorbill, 2014)

The Gospel Truth (Red Deer Press, 2014)

Shooter (Razorbill, 2016)

including two Governor General's Literature Awards 

for Children's Text

will speak 

at

The Ottawa Children's Literature Roundtable

 on

The Power of Story

on

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

7 p.m.

Ottawa Public Library- Sunnyside Branch

1049 Bank Street

Ottawa, ON

The Pact: Book launches (Perth, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa)

It's going to be a whirlwind of book launches 

for

Red Deer Press 

and

the author of

September 17

by Amanda West Lewis

Red Deer Press

978-0-88995-507-3

313 pp.

Ages 12+

2013

Reviewed here

Amanda West Lewis

for the launch of her newest book of historical fiction

The Pact

by Amanda West Lewis

Red Deer Press

978-0-88995-544-8

352 pp.

Ages 10-15

September 2016

Saturday, September 10, 2016

1-3 p.m.

The Book Nook 

80 Gore Street East

Perth, ON

A book signing with refreshments and conversation

Friday, September 16, 2016

7:30 p.m.

Mabel's Fables

662 Mt Pleasant Road

Toronto, ON 

A reading and discussion with refreshments

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

 7 p.m.

Novel Idea Bookstore

156 Princess Street

Kingston, ON

A reading and discussion with refreshments

Saturday, October 1, 2016

7 p.m.

The Avalon Studio

738A Bank Street

Ottawa, ON 

A reading and discussion with refreshments

From the publisher's website, the book is described as follows:

This vivid historical novel follows the life of young Peter Gruber — ten years old at the outbreak of World War Two in 1939 — and explores how an intelligent, sensitive youth responds to the propaganda and posturing of the Nazis. It also provides insights into the realities of living in a country at war, a country that suffers increasing waves of devastation, as the tide turns against the Nazis.

The story is told through the eyes of Peter as he is drawn into the Hitler Youth and at the same time comes to doubt what he is being told about his country and its destiny.

(Retrieved from http://www.reddeerpress.com/Detail/0889955441 on September 9, 2016.)

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Look for my review of this middle grade historical fiction novel soon. I just wanted to get this post out before Amanda West Lewis' first event tomorrow. 

Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend: Book launch (Ottawa and Toronto)

Join 

award-winning author of

Tilt (Groundwood Books, 2011)
All Night (Grass Roots Press, 2013)
The Secret Life of Owen Skye (Groundwood, 2002)
After Sylvia (Groundwood, 2004)
Dear Sylvia (Groundwood, 2008)

Alan Cumyn

and

publisher

Simon & Schuster Canada

for the launch of his newest YA novel

Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend

by Alan Cumyn

Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

978-1481439800

416 pp.

Ages 14+

March 2016

on

March 22, 2016

7 p.m.
Georgetown Sports Pub
1159 Bank St.
Ottawa

and

March 30, 2016

6 p.m.

Dora Keogh Irish Pub

141 Danforth Avenue

Toronto

The book is described on the Simon & Schuster website as follows :

Prepare to be blown away—or rather, carried away on huge muscular wings—by this blissfully outlandish, bracingly-smart, tour de force about a teen who has to come to terms with relinquishing control for the first time as she falls for the hot new…pterodactyl…at school. After all, everybody wants him! 

Shiels is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she’s at it). She’s smart, powerful, the Student Body Chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for? 

But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. There’s something about him—something primal—that causes the students to lose control whenever he’s around. Even Shiels, the seemingly perfect self-confident girl that she is, can’t keep her mind off of him, despite her doting boyfriend and despite the fact that Pyke immediately starts dating Jocelyn, the school’s fastest runner who Shiels has always discounted as a nobody. 

Pyke, hugely popular in a school whose motto is to embrace differences, is asked to join a band, and when his band plays at the Autumn Whirl dance, his preternatural shrieking music sends everyone into a literal frenzy. No one can remember what happened the next day, but Shiels learns that she danced far too long with Pyke, her nose has turned purple, and she may have done something with her boyfriend that she shouldn’t have. Who’s in control now?

(Retrieved from http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Hot-Pterodactyl-Boyfriend/Alan-Cumyn/9781481439800 on March 9, 2016.) 

Tell me that doesn't sounding enticing.  I dare you.

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 Gospel Truth: Book launch (Ottawa)

Governor General Literary Award-winning author

Caroline Pignat

is launching her latest book

The Gospel Truth

Red Deer Press

978-0889954939

328 pp.

Ages 12+

Released October 1, 2014

A novel in verse, The Gospel Truth takes the reader to a tobacco plantation in 1858 Virginia, and shares the interactions and perspectives of slaves, their masters and a visiting bird-watcher.

Visit 

Caroline Pignat

at

the All Saints Christmas Craft Fair

All Saints Catholic High School

5115 Kanata Avenue

Kanata (Ottawa), Ontario

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

to purchase The Gospel Truth, 

do some Christmas shopping, and 

support a great cause.

Admission 

to the Christmas Craft Fair

with over 150 vendors

is 

$1 or a canned good

Proceeds from sales of The Gospel Truth

will be going towards

a school, Todo los Santos,

sponsored by All Saints DR Experience Team and the All Saints community. 

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.

The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley: Book Launch & Celebration (Ottawa)

Award-winning author

Jan Andrews

 

When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew:  The Tales of Ti-Jean (Groundwood, 2011)

The Auction (Groundwood, 2007)

Rude Stories (Tundra, 2007)

Dear Canada: Winter of Peril:  The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge (Scholastic Canada, 2005)

The Very Last First Time (Groundwood, 1987)

celebrates the publication of her first young adult novel

The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley

Great Plains Teen Fiction

978-1-92653-168-7

200 pp.

Ages 12-15

March 1, 2013

Join her on

Saturday May 4, 2013

at 2:00 p.m.

480 Westminister Avenue

Ottawa, Ontario

Festival of Trees: Ottawa

Are you reading the Forest® in the Ottawa area?

 Then DON'T MISS OUT 

on Canada's largest literary event for young people 
and its first celebration in Ottawa

  
Festival of Trees™

May 17, 2012

Carleton University

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If you've been reading books in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading®'s 

Silver Birch or Red Maple programs

for the chance to vote for your favourite books, 

then you'll want to attend 

the first ever Ottawa Festival of Trees

Over half the tickets ($10 each) for this event have been sold already, so don't delay.   

Contact the Ontario Library Association here for tickets. 

For more information, please visit http://www.accessola.com/festivaloftrees