We each conduct presentations in schools and public libraries.
Funded by TD Canada and other sponsors, this program has tremendous impact on reaching and encouraging young readers. A writer from Nova Scotia might be send to the Arctic. An illustrator from British Columbia might get to share his art with children in New Brunswick or Quebec. I am touring, this year, in small towns in rural Ontario.
Each of us meets with hundreds of children who've been reading our books. We all show the process of how books are made and how these kids, too, can grow up to be the future generation of storytellers and artists.
I asked my fellow writers/illustrators on tour which book THEY are bringing with them, to read in planes, trains, busses and hotel rooms.
This is their eclectic list of titles. Have fun finding them and seeing what Canadian book creators are currently reading:
Birdwing, Rafe Martin
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
Flickers, Arthur Slade
The Dogs, Allan Stratton
The Nest, Kenneth Oppel
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Saving Montgomery Sole, Mariko Tamaki
Otherbound, Corinne Duyvis
Birdie, Tracey Lindberg
The Illegal, Lawrence Hill
Mortal Danger, Ann Aguirre
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl, Paige McKenzie (with Alyssa Sheinmel)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
#GoodMorningEarth: Chris Hadfield, Kate Lunau
Release, Daren Wride
Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains, Catherine Parr Strickland Traill
How the Heather Looks, Joan Bodger
Jenny Watson's Prove It, Josh
Lonely Planet Canada
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles, Shari Green
This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki
The Truth Commission, Susan Juby
Saint Anyone, Sarah Dessin
Mosquitoland, David Arnold
Legacy, Waubgeshig Rice
Legacy, Waubgeshig Rice
Ask and It Is Given, Esther and Jerry Hicks.
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