Butterfly on the Wind

Written by Adam Pottle

Illustrated by Ziyue Chen

Roaring Brook Press

978-1-250-821-97-3

40 pp.

Ages 3-6

March 2024 

 

The anticipation of presenting the fairy tale she'd written is making Aurora quite nervous. But for a Deaf child who will use ASL to tell her story, trembling hands will make for a challenging storytelling. When she sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden, she recalls her father telling her that a butterfly's wings could create a wind that could carry around the world. With that, she is inspired her to generate one with her hands and send it off into the world.

 

From Butterfly on the Wind, written by Adam Pottle, illustrated by Ziyue Chen

Her butterfly travels to a farm where a little boy Milos, who also speaks with his hands, watches it sway the raspberry bushes. He creates his own beautiful blue butterfly that joins Aurora's to travel to a cabin in the mountains where Abbey and her grandmother spot them.

From Butterfly on the Wind, written by Adam Pottle, illustrated by Ziyue Chen

Knowing the cold would be hard on the butterflies, grandmother and granddaughter make their own butterflies to create an even stronger wind that blows all four butterflies off to warmer climes and above an ocean.

From Butterfly on the Wind, written by Adam Pottle, illustrated by Ziyue Chen

With each step (or rather flutter) of their journey, the butterflies meet a new Deaf child who with their supportive friends and family sends the butterflies off with new ones until "a tornado of butterflies, a churning circle of color and beauty" travels back to Aurora. Emboldened by her small butterfly wind becoming a magnificent storm, she can step forward into the school for her presentation.

From Butterfly on the Wind, written by Adam Pottle, illustrated by Ziyue Chen

Saskatchewan writer Adam Pottle was born Deaf and raised in a hearing family, so his story Butterfly on the Wind has an authentic voice, and a voice that does not objectify Aurora or Miles's disability, or that of all the other Deaf children. They are not there to inspire us with overcoming their deafness. They are there to demonstrate that, like everyone, they will have struggles and must find a way to cope. Aurora's strategy of sending out a beautiful butterfly ultimately garners strength from others in the Deaf community and gives her the courage to step forward for a public performance. There is magic in her butterfly and in all the butterflies that follow, but that magic comes from within–even if she doesn't know it at the time–and has the power to unite and invigorate and sustain. 

The magic that Adam Pottle creates for Aurora and the other Deaf children is something special, and the art that Singaporean Deaf illustrator Ziyue Chen uses to carry that magic is sweet and yet powerful. She uses colour that is both soft and vibrant, ranging from pinks and purples to blues and yellows. Whether it's the butterflies or the landscapes, there is a vibe of life and happiness. 

Adam Pottle appends his story with an enlightening Author's Note– also a visual depiction of the ASL alphabet–that tells readers of the symbolic nature of the butterfly in Deaf culture, and the basis of his story. His motive to reach others–"May it travel around the world as swiftly and beautifully as Aurora's butterfly"–is a testament to his good intentions and the same spirit of strength and grace shown by butterflies.

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There will be a very special in-person (Saskatoon) and streamed (YouTube) book launch for Adam Pottle's new picture book Butterfly on the Wind

on

Saturday, April 6, 2024

at

2 PM

at

the Travel Alcove of McNally Robinson Booksellers

3130-8th Street East

Saskatoon, SK

and

streamed

via

McNally Robinson Saskatoon Events channel on YouTube

here

There will be live ASL interpretation and 

CNS transcription provided by Saskatchewan Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services

 

 

The Girl with the Cat

Written by Beverley Brenna

Illustrated by Brooke Kerrigan

Red Deer Press

978-0-88995-531-8

32 pp.

Ages 5-10

April 2020

Based on a true story, The Girl with the Cat recounts a fortuitous visit to an art gallery that leads to an act of activism and the permanent installation of a bronze sculpture in Saskatoon.

From The Girl with the Cat by Beverley Brenna, illus. by Brooke Kerrigan

When a young girl and her older brother go exploring one Saturday shortly after the family's move from Toronto to Saskatoon, they discover an art gallery of epic proportions. Within the walls, the girl discovers a plethora of art which cannot be touched; that is, until she finds a bronze sculpture of a girl in a rocking chair with a cat on her lap. Without a sign about touching, lonely Caroline touches the chair and sees it rock. She pats the cat, and takes in the details of the artwork, from the girl's bare feet and shorts to the ripples of the cat's fur. Everything reminds Caroline of the home and cat she left behind and of playing with her friends. She makes a connection and returns to talk to the girl and her cat, identified as Nina and Sammy, time and time again.

From The Girl with the Cat by Beverley Brenna, illus. by Brooke Kerrigan

I sit beside them and the Gallery breathes softly around us. In the stillness I start to really see the paintings. This room is full of summer. There are trees for treehouses and beaches for swimming. I bet Nina likes this place. Maybe that's one of her secrets. I tell her my secrets in return.

But when Caroline learns that the sculpture is being returned to Ottawa where the artist lives, Caroline is devastated.

It feels as if there's a hole in the roof and all the light is leaking out.

Nine-year-old Caroline gathers up the little bit of money she and her brother have and delivers it with a letter to the director. Though he suggests there's nothing he can do, the next morning her letter graces the front page of the newspaper, and a month later Caroline is pleased to hear that the "Girl With Cat" would not be moved.

From The Girl with the Cat by Beverley Brenna, illus. by Brooke Kerrigan

According to the notes at the conclusion of The Girl with the Cat, Caroline Markham was the little girl who wrote the letter that saved this sculpture at the Mendel Art Gallery in 1966. That sculpture, by the artist Arthur Price of his own daughter and her cat, remains in Saskatoon though it has been relocated with the gallery's collection to the city's new art museum. But this child's small act of activism, championing a piece of art with which she made a connection and helped her become accustomed to her new home, reminds us that small deeds can enact important changes. Beverley Brenna, who has penned everything from picture books and early readers (I reviewed Sapphire the Great and the Meaning of Life last year) to middle grade, YA and short stories, is very astute about getting into the heads of children and giving voice to that which matters to them. This story may be about taking action but at its most heartfelt it's about the anguish a child feels about her family's move and her need for reassurance and a friend. She finds both in a bronze sculpture that also leads her to real friends. Not surprising she returns the favour.

From The Girl with the Cat by Beverley Brenna, illus. by Brooke Kerrigan

With Brooke Kerrigan's illustrations created with the softest of media like pencil crayon and watercolours, The Girl with the Cat is both muted and dramatic. Brooke Kerrigan makes the gallery itself impressively monolithic and the art it houses striking, which is how a child would perceive them to be. Her distinctive art styling has both a grace and a magic that consistently draw me in to the story. (Read my reviews of The Christmas Wind, The Little Boy Who Lived Down the Drain, and Fishermen Through & Through for a sampling of some of my favourites by Brooke Kerrigan.)

I'm glad Arthur Price created his sculpture and that it was there to comfort Caroline in 1966 and that she was able to help safeguard its presence in Saskatoon, but I am most thankful that Beverley Brenna and Brooke Kerrigan were able to share this story about how a small act can lead to transformation.

The Moon Watched It All: Book launch (Saskatoon, SK)

I may have missed an earlier launch for this book, one at which 

both author Shelley A. Leedahl and illustrator Aino Anto 

were in attendance,

but

here is a second opportunity 

and in a city that generally has fewer book launches than Toronto

so I'm pleased to post about it here.

🌑🌖🌑🌔🌑

Join

author 

Shelley A. Leedahl

for

the Saskatoon launch of

her new picture book

The Moon Watched It All

 Written by Shelley A. Leedahl
Illustrated by Aino Anto
Red Deer Press
978-0-88995-537-0
32 pp.
Ages 5-9
February 2019

Reviewed here

on

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

7 p.m.

at

McNally Robinson Booksellers

Travel Alcove 

3130 8 St. E.

Saskatoon, SK 

Details are posted at the McNally Robinson website here. 

🌑🌖🌑🌔🌑

If This is Home

by Kristine Scarrow

Dundurn Press

978-1-459736504

184 pp.

Ages 12-15

January 2017

The bright sun and wheat fields of the cover may hint at the Saskatchewan setting but not the darkness and confusion of If This is Home, Kristine Scarrow’s second novel for young people.  And though the story resolves itself to a setting in which a swing, grain fields and fresh breezes prevail, don’t expect a happily-ever-after ending because If This is Home is more real than that.

Even with their mother working two jobs, there is barely enough food in the house for sixteen-year-old Jayce  (J.J.) Loewen  and her four-year-old sister Joelle.  But now their mom is missing shifts, barely able to get out of bed, and their dad Joe, a touring musician, hasn’t been in the picture for years, never even having met Joelle.  When J.J. meets the intriguing senior Kurt at detention,  he shows interest in a friendship with her which she tries to nix.

My mom has kind of given up on everything and stays in bed all the time.  My four-year-old sister pretty much fends for herself.  I'd invite you in, except I'd have nothing to offer you but a hot, steamy bowl of oatmeal and, really, my life is getting far too complicated to add something new in, so it's best if we cut ties now. (pg. 22)

However, after her mom is taken to hospital and diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, and J.J.’s best friend Amanda pays little attention to anything but her own dramas, J.J. finds Kurt a valuable support as she seeks out her dad, as instructed by her dying mother.

However, the search for Joe does not lead to the comforting family the girls need.  In fact, J.J. discovers Joe is no longer the bad-boy musician she’d remembered and is harbouring secrets that stun and anger her.  Meanwhile her mother is reaching out to her own mother who’d stood by when J.J.’s grandfather kicked J.J.’s mother out upon learning of her pregnancy at 18.  Will J.J.’s father and grandmother be able to offer the support her family needs?  Does she have it in her to forgive their trespasses against her mother and sister and herself?

I'm done letting people walk in and out of my life at their whim. It's better just to keep them out altogether. (pg. 119)

When  troubles overwhelm, most of us seek out family.  After all, they’re the ones who are supposed to take you in when no one else will.  But what happens when history and disappointment and anger impede that happy reunion?  Do you look elsewhere or find the means to forgive?  Kristine Scarrow creates a tenuous situation of an ill mother trying to find caregivers for her children when there seems to be no one around and worrying that she will die before she is able to restore familial links.  But more than that, If This is Home is about a teen trying to be the adult in a family untethered, trying to secure assistance without showing her vulnerabilities or forgiving those who’ve neglected them for so long. While Kurt, a young man who lives and cares for his ailing grandmother and is very forthcoming about his own parents’ inadequacies, provides a sharp contrast to J.J.’s own situation, he provides her with the unconditional support she requires.  He becomes the family she desperately needs while helping her to reconcile the family she has.

If This is Home is all about finding home in whatever form is available to you.  For J.J. and Joelle, home is what is made for them by those who want to do right and it's a home and a family as real as any.

Freedom's Just Another Word

by Caroline Stellings

Second Story Press

978-1-77260-011-7

232 pp.

Ages 12+

September 2016

From the title (taken from the song “Me and Bobby McGee”) to her unexpected stop in Saskatoon in 1970 and the journey Easy Merritt takes to meet up with her idol, Janis Joplin is the soundtrack for Caroline Stellings’ latest young adult novel, Freedom’s Just Another Word.  And what a soundtrack it is: earthy, guttural, soulful and rich with the blues.

But when she sang–oh, when she sang–that tempered-in-a-forge voice of hers was like a flame in this burned-out world.  You ’d have to be stone deaf or a cadaver not to be electrified by her; she could sound as smooth as the Southern Comfort that dribbled from the corners of her mouth, or as gritty as sandpaper.  And the way she clutched every stanza like it was her last made me shake with anticipation. (pg. 1)

Though her name might suggest otherwise, growing up half-black–the product of her black father’s affair with a white prostitute named Wendy Wood–in Saskatoon has not been comfortable for Easy (Louisiana) Merritt.   She may be good at car mechanics like her father but she wants to sing the blues, and the two venues in town, Saskatoon Blues and The Beehive are not willing to give her a chance.  So Easy saves her money from working at the garage and singing in front of the liquor store, playing her accordion and frottoir, for the chance to get out.  Her break comes after a fortuitous meeting with the great Janis Joplin when the Festival Express train stops for a booze run in Saskatoon and Easy helps the singer get a bottle of her much-loved Southern Comfort liqueur and earns an invitation to meet up with her in Austin, Texas the following week.  So, Easy begins her pilgrimage, accompanying two nuns, the upbeat Sister Beatrice and the sour postulant Marsha, whom she’d assisted in purchasing a used car, on their journey to a mission in Albuquerque from which Easy could head to Texas.

Like any road trip, Easy’s is a mixture of highs and lows, and more so in 1970 when the civil rights movement is struggling to get a foothold in both Canada and the US, and an eighteen-year-old girl of black and white parentage isn’t always tolerated, much less accepted.  And travelling the famous Route 66, a.k.a. The Mother Road, a road in the process of being retired for the faster, more direct I-40, foreshadows some mother issues with which Easy must grapple to understand herself and others better, if she is to make a success of herself.

Like her Geoffrey Bilson Award-nominated book The Manager (Cape Breton University Press, 2013), Freedom’s Just Another Word is a story based in the 1970s, a time often disregarded in much historical fiction.  But it’s an important time of change, with respect to civil rights and opportunities for women, and Caroline Stellings composes a story that is both embedded in the time yet universal in its themes of acceptance, tolerance, and family.  By taking Easy on a journey both spatially from Saskatoon to Albuquerque and Texas and back, and emotionally as she struggles with acknowledgement of her own family’s secrets and story, Caroline Stellings creates an alluring, cross-country excursion of the soul and heart which ends with finding enlightenment, sometimes closer to home than you might expect.

Small Displays of Chaos: Book launch (Saskatoon)

Join 

Coteau Books

and 

debut YA author

Breanna Fischer

for the launch of

Small Displays of Chaos

by Breanna Fischer

Coteau Books

9781550506617

112 pp.

Ages 13+

May 2016

on 

Monday, May 2, 2016

at

7 p.m.

at

McNally Robinson Booksellers

3130 8th St. E.

Saskatoon, SK

A riveting, haunting novel about one teenager’s journey toward self-love and strength.

17-year-old Rayanne Timko is only a few months into her senior year of high school, and her biggest concern should be deciding on a university and career path. But while her classmates are filled with anticipation, nothing in her life seems to going smoothly, and Rayanne finds herself struggling to overcome anorexia. She has a new friend: Ed - the seductive and demanding presence in her head who insists she be as skinny as possible. With Ed around, Rayanne is blind to nearly everyone else in her life. But what happens when Ray begins to suspect she may be losing more than weight? Will she be able to save her family - and herself - before it’s too late?

Filled with complex relationships and realistic young adult tribulations, Small Displays of Chaos follows Rayanne as she struggles with the astonishingly common yet stigmatized disorder of anorexia nervosa. Throughout her story she fights to discover who she is despite her illness, and learns that by loving herself, she is better able to love those around her.

Retrieved from Coteau Books website at http://coteaubooks.com/index.php?id=1046 

on March 28, 2016.

Word on the Street 2014: Lethbridge, Saskatoon

Across Canada, five communities are planning their WOTS days.  If you see "WOTS" in Twitter, Twitterers are talking about Word On The Street, an annual celebration of literacy and the written word.  Usually held in late September, readers and writers come together to share their love of books and magazines, participate in workshops, readings, and check out the CanLit book buyer's nirvana of marketplaces. 

Details about WOTS in Lethbridge and Saskatoon follow here, with a listing of youngCanLit authors who are scheduled to attend.  I'll post about the other three WOTS directly.

Lethbridge

http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/lethbridge 

Date:   Sunday September 21, 2014

Time:   11 am - 5 pm

Location:  Main Library at 5th Ave. S. and 8th St. S.

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Karen Bass, author of Graffiti Knight and Drummer Girl

• Erin Bow, children's author of Sorrow's Knot and Plain Kate

• Jacqueline Guest, children's author of Ghost Messages, Outcast of River Falls and Belle of Batoche

• Carrie Mac, author of young adult The Opposite of Tidy, The Gryphon Project and The Droughtlanders

• Michelle Mulder, fiction and non-fiction author of Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water Home, Not a Chance and Out of the Box

• Ruth Ohi, author and illustrator of Fox and Squirrel, Kenta and the Big Wave, and Chicken Pig Cow

• Morgan Rhodes, author of young adult fantasy Falling Kingdoms and Rebel Spring

• Martin Springett, author of illustrated non-fiction Kate and Pippin: An Unlikely Love Story

WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS

Saskatoon

http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/saskatoon

Date:    Sunday September 21, 2014

Time:    11 am - 5 pm 

Location:    Civic Square around City Hall, in front of Frances Morrison Library

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Kelley Armstrong, children's and YA author of Odin's Ravens, Loki's Wolves, The Gathering, The Awakening, The Calling, The Reckoning

• Brenda Baker, YA author of Camp Outlook

• Deborah Ellis, author of newest The Cat at the Wall, Looks Like Daylight, The Breadwinner, I Am a Taxi

• Beth Goobie, author of young adult The Throne, Jason's Why and Born Ugly

• Alice Kuipers, author of  upcoming children's book Violet and Victor Write the Best Ever Bookworm Book, and young adult 40 Things I Want to Tell You and The Worst Thing She Ever Did

• Marion Mutala, author of A Magical Ukrainian Christmas

• Martine Noel-Maw, auteur de Le 13e Souhait

• Barbara Reid, plasticine illustrator of new The Night Before Christmas; also Perfect Snow, Fox Walked Alone

• Shannon Richards, author of cookbook Monkeys in the Kitchen

• Carey Rigby-Wilcox, author of My Dad Couldn't Read

• Arthur Slade, children's and YA author of the Hunchback Assignments series, Dust, and Megiddo's Shadow

• Edward Willet, author of Song of the Sword and Twist of the Blade of The Shards of Excalibur fantasy series

WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS

If there are any errors in this posting, they are completely my own. Please check the Word On The Street websites provided to confirm details.

The Word On The Street 2013: Lethbridge and Saskatoon

Across Canada, five communities are planning their WOTS days.  If you see "WOTS" in Twitter, Twitterers are talking about Word On The Street, an annual celebration of literacy and the written word.  Usually held in late September, readers and writers come together to share their love of books and magazines, participate in workshops, readings, and check out the CanLit book buyer's nirvana of marketplaces. 

Details about WOTS in Lethbridge and Saskatoon follow here, and youngCanLit authors who are scheduled to attend.  I'll post about the other three WOTS directly.

Lethbridge
http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/lethbridge 

Date:   Sunday September 22, 2013
Time:   11 am - 5 pm
Location:  Main Library at 5th Ave. S. and 8th St. S.

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Robert Heidbreder, poet and children's author of Drumheller Dinosaur Dance, Noisy Poems for a Busy Day and new Black and Bittern was the Night

• Celia Barker Lottridge, children's author of Home is Beyond the Mountains, One Watermelon Seed, and Ticket to Curlew

• Norah McClintock, YA mystery author of My Side, Close to the Heel, Robyn Hunter Mystery series, and Chloé and Levesque Mystery series

 

 

WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS

Saskatoon
http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/saskatoon

Date:    Sunday September 22, 2013
Time:    11 am - 5 pm
Location:    Civic Square around City Hall, In front of Frances Morrison Library

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Beverley Brenna, children's and YA author of The White Bicycle, Waiting for No One, The Moon Children and upcoming The Bug House Family Restaurant

• Sigmund Brouwer, children's and YA author of Dead Man's Switch, Devil's Pass, and Justine McKeen series

• Alice Kuipers, YA author of 40 Things I Want to Tell You and The Worst Thing She Ever Did

• Lesley Livingston, YA fantasy author of Descendant, Starling, Every Never After, and Wondrous Strange

• Sylvia McNicoll, children's and YA author of Dying to Go Viral, Crush Candy Corpse, and A Different Kind of Beauty

• Gail Sidonie Sobat, YA author of Not With a Bang, Chance to Dance For You, and Gravity Journal

• Lois Simmie, children's and adult author of Mister Got To Go: The Cat That Wouldn't Leave, Mister Got To Go and Arnie, and Mister Got To Go Where Are You?

• Arthur Slade, children's and YA author of the Hunchback Assignments series, Dust, and Megiddo's Shadow

• Ashley Spires, graphic novelist, children's author and illustrator of Binky the Space Cat series, Larf and Small Saul

• Brian Trainor, author of Bully 4 U and Stop Fraud 

• Larry Warwaruk, adult and children's author of Brovko's Amazing Journey and Andrei and the Snow Walker

WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS

If there are any errors in this posting, they are completely my own. Please check the Word On The Street websites provided to confirm details.

Brovko's Amazing Journey: Book Launch (Saskatoon)

Coteau Books

and

 Larry Warwaruk

author  
of  
Andrei and the Snow Walker (Coteau, 2002)

invite you to the book launch 
of 

Brovko's Amazing Journey

Brovko's Amazing Journey
by Larry Warwaruk
Coteau Books
9781550505542
168 pp.
Ages 7+
April 2013

The story of 12-year-old Andrei's companion Brovko, who is left behind when the family leaves Ukraine to start their new life in Canada.  But Brovko finds a way to get himself reunited with his best friend. 


on

Thursday, May 16, 2013

at

7:30 p.m. (CST)

at 

McNally Robinson Booksellers
8th Street East
Saskatoon, SK

For more information on Brovko's Amazing Journey, go to Coteau Books here http://ow.ly/kSghg

********************************

This is a book launch that I wish I could attend.  While my father came to Canada from Ukraine when he was in his twenties, he still had a photo of his dog, Marko, that he had left behind.  Looking at Larry Warwaruk, I see a Ukrainian grandfather, one I never knew, and know that Brovko's Amazing Journey will be an amazing story imbued with the richness of Ukrainian traditions.

Word on the Street 2012: Vancouver, Lethbridge, Saskatoon

Across Canada, six communities are planning their WOTS days.  If you see "WOTS" in Twitter, Twitterers are talking about Word On The Street, an annual celebration of literacy and the written word.  Usually held in late September, readers and writers come together to share their love of books and magazines, participate in workshops, readings, and check out the CanLit book buyer's nirvana of marketplaces. 

Details about WOTS in Vancouver, Lethbridge and Saskatoon follow here.  I'll post about the other three WOTS later.

Vancouver

http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/vancouver 

Date:   Friday, September 28  - Sunday, September 30, 2012
Location:  Homer Street, Hamilton Street, and in and around the Vancouver Public Library (see map)

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Caroline Adderson, children's author of Middle of Nowhere
• Nicola I. Campbell, picture book author of Shin-Chi's Canoe
• Hiromi Goto, YA author of Half World, Darkest Light
• Rachel Hartman, YA fantasy author of Seraphina
• Robert Heidbreder, poet author of Noisy Poems for a Busy Day 
• Lauren Howell, author of If I Was the Mayor, What Do You Want to Be?
• Glen Huser, author of The Runaway
• Tanya Lloyd Kyi, non-fiction author of Seeing Red: The True Story of Blood
• Shar Levine, non-fiction author of Yo-Yo for Beginners, Hockey Science
• Gina McMurchy-Barber, author of When Children Play, Free as a Bird, Reading the Bones
• Julie Morstad, illustrator The Swing, How To, When I Was Small
• Susin Nielsen, author of The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen, Dear George Clooney Please Marry My Mom
• Sylvia Olsen, author of A Different Game
• Kit Pearson, author of And Nothing But the Truth, The Whole Truth
• Lois Peterson, author of The Paper House
• Rhea Tregebov, picture book author of What-If Sara, The Big Storm
• John Wilson, YA author of Lost Cause, Shot at Dawn: World War I, Allan McBride, France, 1917
• Caroline Woodward, picture book author of The Village of Many Hats, Singing Away the Dark

WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS

Lethbridge
http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/lethbridge 

Date:   Sunday September 23, 2012
Time:   11 am - 5 pm
Location:  Main Library at 5th Ave. S. and 8th St. S.

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Susan Aiyoshi, children's author of Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1941
• Amy Bright, YA author of Before We Go
• Scott Chantler, graphic artist and author of The Captive Prince, the Three Thieves series
• Shane Peacock, children's author of Becoming Holmes: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Final Case, The Boy Sherlock Holmes series - via SKYPE
• Kit Pearson, children's author of The Whole Truth, And Nothing But the Truth
• Janet Gurtler, YA author of I'm Not Her, If I Tell, Who I Kissed
• Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, non-fiction authors of Fatty Legs, A Stranger at Home
• Lisa Matchev, YA fantasy author of Eyes Like Stars, Perchance to Dream and So Silver Bright - via SKYPE
• Arthur Slade, children's author of Island of Doom, the Hunchback Assignments series - via SKYPE
• Thomas Wharton, fantasy author of The Fathomless Fire, Perilous Realm trilogy

WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS

Saskatoon
http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/saskatoon

Date:    Sunday September 23, 2012
Time:    11 am - 5 pm
Location:    23rd Street East between 3rd and 4th Avenues

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Adele Dueck, children's author of Racing Home, Nettie's Journey
• Alice Kuipers, YA author of 40 Things I Want to Tell You, The Worst Thing She Ever Did
• Alison Lohans, author of Picturing Alyssa 
• Marion Mutala, children's author of Baba’s Babushka: A Magical Ukrainian Christmas 
• David Poulsen, children's and YA author of the Salt and Pepper Series, Numbers
• Will Stroet, children's performer
• Alison Uitti, author of First Days Night Movies

WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS     WOTS

If there are any errors in this posting, they are completely my own. Please check the Word On The Street websites provided to confirm details.