Word on the Street 2014: Kitchener, Toronto, Halifax

In addition to the two western communities promoted earlier, Word On The Street, the annual celebration of literacy and the written word, will take place in Kitchener, Toronto and Halifax. 

Below, I've outlined the basics about the Kitchener, Toronto and Halifax WOTS, including listing of children's and young adult authors and illustrators scheduled to appear.  Check the website of the specific WOTS to determine how each author will participate in Word On The Street. Regardless, the list of youngCanLit authors and illustrators is mind-blowing! I truly hope you are near enough to attend one of these festivals.  Go YoungCanLit!

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Kitchener

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

Date:     Saturday, September 20, 2014

Time:     11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Location:    Kitchener City Hall

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Lesley Livingston, children's and YA author of Wondrous Strange, Descendant, Now and for Never and How to Curse in Hieroglyphics

• Caroline Pignat, children's and YA author of Unspeakable, Egghead, and Greener Grass

• Eve Silver, YA author of Rush and Push

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Toronto

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

Date:    Sunday September 21, 2014

Times:    11 am - 6 pm

Location:    Queen's Park Circle

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Helaine Becker, children's and middle-grade fiction and non-fiction author of upcoming Dirk Daring Secret Agent,  A Porcupine in a Pine Tree, How to Survive Absolutely Everything, and Ode to Underwear

• Andrea Beck, author-illustrator of Goodnight, Canada, Pierre in the Air!, and the Elliot Moose series

• William Bell, author of YA books Fanatics, Stones, Zack and Only in the Movies

• Sangeeta Bhadra, author of upcoming picture book Sam's Pet Temper

• Megan Crewe, YA author of upcoming Earth & Sky, and dystopian The Worlds We Make, The Way We Fall and The Lives We Lost

• Laura Croza, picture book author of From There to Here and I Know Here

• Claudia Dávila, author-illustrator of Super Red Riding Hood and graphic novel Luz Sees the Light, and illustrator of Viminy Crow's Comic Book

• Rachelle Delaney, author of The Circus Dogs of Prague and The Metro Dogs of Moscow

• Cary Fagan, children's fiction author of The Show to End All Shows, I Wish I Could Draw, Oy Feh So?, Mr. Zinger's Hat and The Fortress of Kaspar Snit

• Gail Gallant, author of YA Apparition

• Jennifer Gold, author of YA Soldier Doll

• Matt James, illustrator of Northwest Passage, From There to Here, and I Know Here

• Lynne Kositsky, YA author of upcoming With Fearful Bravery, The Plagues of Kondor, and Minerva's Voyage

• Julie Kraulis, picture book author and illustrator of Whimsy's Heavy Things

• Kat Kruger, author of paranormal YA The Night is Found, The Night Has Teeth, and The Night Has Claws

• Lucy Leiderman, author of YA fantasy Lives of Kings and Lives of Magic

• Lesley Livingston, author of Now and For Never, Descendant, Wondrous Strange, and co-author of How to Curse in Hieroglyphics and upcoming The Haunting of Heck House

• Jonathan Llyr, co-author of How to Curse in Hieroglyphics and upcoming The Haunting of Heck House

• Elizabeth Macleod, children's non-fiction author of Bunny the Brave War Horse, Why Do Horses Have Manes?, A History of Just About Everything and Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History's Mysteries

• Brian McLachlin, comic creator of Alex & Charlie

• Angela Misri, YA mystery author of Jewel of the Thames

• Melanie Mosher, picture book author of Fire Pie Trout

• Kenneth Oppel, author of The Boundless, Such Wicked Intent, This Dark Endeavour, Silverwing, Airborn

• Stella Parthenious Grasso, children's author of 101 Creepy Canadian Jokes and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Puck

• Karen Patkau, illustrator of picture books A Good Trade and One Watermelon Seed, and author-illustrator of non-fiction books Who Needs a Reef?: A Coral Ecosystem and Creatures Great and Small

• Shane Peacock, author of Double You, Last Message and The Boy Sherlock Holmes series

• Caroline Pignat, author of Speakable, Egghead, and Greener Grass

• Emily Pohl-Weary, author of YA Not Your Ordinary Wolf-Girl

• Robert Priest, YA author of The Paper Sword and The Old Pirate of Central Park

• Michael Redhill, author of Saving Houdini 

• Debbie Ridpath Ohi, illustrator of Naked! and I'm Bored

• Richard Scarsbrook, YA author of The Monkey Chronicles and Nothing Man and the Purple Zero

• Richard Scrimger, author of upcoming The Wolf and Me, Zomboy, Ink Me, co-author of Viminy Crowe's Comic Book

• Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, children's author of Dance of the Banished, The Best Gifts, Underground Soldier, and Making Bombs for Hitler

• Ted Staunton, children's and YA fiction author of upcoming Coda, Jump Cut, Who I'm Not and Acting Up

• Joel A. Sutherland, author of scary story collection Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terrors

• Suzanne Sutherland, author of YA When We Were Good, and Something Wiki

• David Weale, picture book author of Doors in the Air, Three Tall Trees and True Meaning of Crumbfest

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Halifax

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

Date:     Sunday September 21, 2014

Time:    11 am - 5 pm

Location:    Halifax waterfront, around the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• David Atkinson, children's author of upcoming Wereduck

• Jill Barber, singer-author of Music is For Everyone

• Janet E. Cameron, YA author of  Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

• Lesley Choyce, YA author of upcoming Into the Wasteland, Jeremy Stone, Crash and Rat

• George Elliott Clarke, poet-author of Lasso the Wind: Aurelia's Verses and Other Poems 

• Jan L. Coates, author of Rocket Man, The Power of Harmony

• Lennise Gallant, songwriter-author of Peter's Dream and A Day With You in Paradise

• Jacqueline Halsey, author of Bluenose Adventure

• Lisa Harrington, YA author of Twisted and Live to Tell

• Faith Erin Hicks, graphic artist of The Sound of Thunder and graphic novelist of Friends with Boys

• Kate Inglis, children's author of Flight of the Griffons and The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods

• Jessica Scott Kerrin, children's author of The Spotted Dog Last Seen

• Meghan Marentette, children's author of The Stowaways

• George Murray, author-illustrator of Wow Wow and Haw Haw

• Neil Pasricha, author of The Book of Awesome
  

• Natalie Corbett Sampson, author of young adult romance Game Plan

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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.

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

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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

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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: Kitchener, Toronto, Halifax

In addition to the two western communities promoted earlier, Word On The Street, the annual celebration of literacy and the written word, will take place in Kitchener, Toronto and Halifax. 

Below, I've outlined the basics about the Kitchener, Toronto and Halifax WOTS, including listing of children's and young adult authors and illustrators scheduled to appear.  Check the website of the specific WOTS to determine how each author will participate in Word On The Street. Regardless, the list of youngCanLit authors and illustrators is mind-blowing! I truly hope you are near enough to attend one of these festivals.  Go YoungCanLit!

Kitchener

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

Date:     Saturday, September 21, 2013

Location:    Kitchener City Hall

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Don Calame, YA author of Swim the Fly, Beat the Band and Call the Shots

• Meg Tilly, children's author of A Taste of Heaven and Porcupine

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Toronto

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

Date:    Sunday September 22, 2013

Times:    11 am - 6 pm

Location:    Queen's Park Circle

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Helaine Becker, children's and middle-grade fiction and non-fiction author of Little Jack Horner Live from the Corner, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree, How to Survive Absolutely Everything, and upcoming Ode to Underwear

• Don Calame, YA author of Swim the Fly, Beat the Band and Call the Shots 

• Scott Chantler, graphic novelist for children and YA including the The Captive Prince and Two Generals

• Megan Crewe, dystopian YA author of The Way We Fall and The Lives We Lost

• Lisa Dalrymple, children's book author of Skink on the Brink and If It's No Trouble...A Big Polar Bear

• Suzanne Del Rizzo, picture book illustrator of Skink on the Brink

• Cary Fagan, children's fiction author of Oy Feh So?, Mr. Zinger's Hat, The Boy in the Box and The Fortress of Kaspar Snit

• Gail Gallant, YA author of upcoming Apparition

• Shauntay Grant, spoken word artist and author of Up Home and The City Speaks in Drums

• Chantel Guertin, adult and YA author of recent The Rule of Thirds

• Nancy Hartry, children's author of Watching Jimmy and new Smokescreen

• Heather Hartt-Sussman, children's picture book author of Here Comes Hortense!, Nana's Summer Surprise, and Noni Says No

• Marthe Jocelyn, picture book, children's and YA fiction and non-fiction author of Where Do You Look?, How It Happened in Peach Hill, Scribbling Women and Would You

• Julie Kraulis, picture book author and illustrator of Whimsy's Heavy Things

• Monica Kulling, children's fiction and non-fiction of Lumpito and the Painter from Spain, Going Up: Elisha Otis's Trip to the Top, Mister Dash and the Cupcake Calamity, and Making Contact: Marconi Goes Wireless

• Daniel Lafrance, illustrator of YA graphic novel War Brothers

• Andrew Larsen, children's picture book author of In The Tree House, Bye Bye Butterflies and The Imaginary Garden

• Loris Lesynski, poet and children's author of Boy Soup, Dirty Dog Boogie and Crazy About Basketball

• Elizabeth MacLeod, children's non-fiction author of A History of Just About Everything, Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History's Mysteries, Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns and Everything But the Kitchen Sink

• Sue MacLeod, poet and YA author of Namesake

• Michael Martchenko, illustrator of numerous Robert Munsch books such as The Paperbag Princess, 50 Below Zero, and upcoming Swamp Water, as well as Allen Morgan books including Matthew's Midnight Adventures

• Maureen McGowan, dystopian YA author of Deviants and Compliance

• Sharon McKay, children's and YA fiction author of War Brothers, Whispers from the Ghettoes, Enemy Territory and Thunder Over Kandahar

• Stephanie McLellan, picture book author of Hoogie in the Middle, Tweezle Into Everything and The Chicken Cat

• Gillian O'Reilley, children's author of non-fiction The Great Number Jumble and Slangalicious

• Ruth Ohi, picture book author and illustrator of new Kenta and the Big Wave, Chicken Pig Cow, Me and My Sister, and The Couch was a Castle

• Shelly Sanders, YA historical fiction author of Rachel's Secret and upcoming Rachel's Promise

• Richard Scarsbrook, YA author of The Monkey Chronicles and upcoming Nothing Man and the Purple Zero

• Eve Silver, YA author of Rush, Book 1 The Game series

• Ted Staunton, children's and YA fiction author of Jump Cut, Acting Up and upcoming Who I'm Not and Ace's Basement

• Patricia Storms, picture book author and illustrator of Never Let You Go and The Pirate and the Penguin

• Suzanne Sutherland, YA author of When We Were Good

• Bill Swan, non-fiction author of Real Justice: Convicted for Being Mi'kmaq: The Story of Donald Marshall Jr., and Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death: The Story of Steven Truscott

• Kevin Sylvester, picture book, fiction and non-fiction author and illustrator of Splinters, Game Day, Neil Flambé series, and Sports Hall of Weird 

• Jan Thornhill, picture book and non-fiction author of Who Wants Pizza, I Found a Dead Bird, The Wildlife ABC and new Is This Panama?: A Migration Story

• Meg Tilly, children's author of A Taste of Heaven and Porcupine 

• Teresa Toten, YA author of The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B, The Taming, and Me and the Blondes

• Andrew H. Vanderwal, historical fiction author of new Death of a King and The Battle for Duncragglin

• Frank Viva, children's picture book author and illustrator of Along a Long Road and A Long Way Away

• Elizabeth Wein, YA author of Code Name Verity and new Rose Under Fire

• Elizabeth Wennick, YA author of Whatever Doesn't Kill You and Changing Jareth

• Kari-Lynn Winters, children's fiction and non-fiction author of Gift Days, Buzz about Bees, Jeffrey and the Sloth and upcoming Stinky Skunk Mel

 

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Halifax

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

Date:     Sunday September 22, 2013

Time:    11 am - 5 pm

Location:    Halifax waterfront, around the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

YoungCanLit writers/illustrators scheduled:

• Laura Best, children's author of Bitter Sweet and Flying With a Broken Wing

• Lesley Choyce, YA author of Reckless, Crash, Breaking Point and new Jeremy Stone

• Jan Coates, children's fiction author of  The Power of Harmony and A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk

• Charles DeLint, YA author of Eyes Like Leaves, Under My Skin and newest Over My Head

• Sam Fisher, children's author of Scare Scape

• Darren Hynes, YA author of Creeps

• Kat Kruger, YA and adult author of The Night Has Teeth and The Night Has Claws

• Hugh R. MacDonald, author of Trapper Boy

• Jill MacLean, children's and YA author of upcoming The Hidden World of Sigrid Sugden and Nix Minus One

• Jo Ann Yhard, historical fiction author of Buried Secrets at Louisbourg, The Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines and Lost of Brier Island

 

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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

 

 

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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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.