Halloween Book Launch with Kenneth Oppel and Kevin Sylvester (Toronto and streamed)

If you're fortunate to be in and around Toronto this weekend, consider this extra special book launch with two of youngCanLit's favourite authors to start off your Halloween season.

 

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Halloween Book Launch!

 

with authors 

 

Kenneth Oppel and Kevin Sylvester

 

for 

 

Ghostlight  and  Apartment 713 

On

 

 Sunday, October 16, 2022

 

there will be an Author Talk and Book Signing

 

 

at 2 PM

 

at the

 

Revue Cinema

400 Roncesvalles Avenue

Toronto

 

 

This will be followed by a free screening of 

the movie "Monster House" at 3 PM

RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/oppelsylvesterlaunch

(The author event will also be streamed at

 https://youtu.be/5l-UKFoL0Zg  

for those who can't attend in person.)

 

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Do check out my reviews of both books to see why you'll want to attend this event!

 

 

Apartment 713

Written by Kevin Sylvester
HarperCollins
978-1-4434-6094-1
240 pp.
Ages 8-12
September 2022 

Reviewed here

and

 

Ghostlight

Written by Kenneth Oppel
Puffin Canada
978-0-7352-7233-0
400 pp.
Ages 10+
September 2022

Reviewed here

 

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Inkling: Book launch (Toronto, ON)

If

 Kenneth Oppel

has a new book coming out,

then it's time to celebrate!

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Join award-winning youngCanLit author

Kenneth Oppel

for the launch of his latest book

Inkling

Written by Kenneth Oppel
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
HarperCollins Canada
 978-1-443450287
272 pp.
Ages 8-12
September 2018


on

September 17, 2018

7-9 p.m.

Revue Cinema

400 Roncesvalles

Toronto, ON


Note:  Tickets are free but must be reserved for admittance.
Go to Eventbrite at
 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/toronto-lit-up-kenneth-oppel-tickets-48179633581
to register.

From HarperCollins website at https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443450287/inkling/:

The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at school—even though he can't draw. Sarah's still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom. So much more than they can say.

Enter Inkling. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylance's sketchbook. But one night the ink of his drawings runs together—and then leaps off the page! This small burst of creativity is about to change everything.

Ethan finds him first. Inkling has absorbed a couple chapters of his math book—not good—and the story he's supposed to be illustrating for school—also not good. But Inkling's also started drawing the pictures to go with the story—which is amazing! It's just the help Ethan was looking for! Inkling helps the rest of the family too—for Sarah he's a puppy. And for Dad he's a spark of ideas for a new graphic novel. It's exactly what they all want.

It's not until Inkling goes missing that this family has to face the larger questions of what they—and Inkling—truly need.

Kenneth Oppel has given us a small masterpiece of middle-grade fiction. Inkling is funny and fizzy and exciting, and brimming with the kind of interesting ideas and dilemmas that kids will love to wrestle with. And Sydney Smith has created wonderfully inky illustrations to bring the story to vivid life. Get ready. A little ink blot is about to become your new favorite character!