At the Hans Christian Andersen Awards and Dinner with LE Carmichael, Joan Marie Galat and Margriet Ruurs — #IReadCanadian powerhouses!
One more IBBY pic
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Darting storms
My husband picked me up at the Ottawa airport in our itty bitty plane and we dodged weather the whole way back. At least it makes for pretty clouds.
IBBY Congress: Bookbird through time
I very much enjoyed listening to the session about Bookbird through the decades. This journal publishes reviewed academic articles on children’s literature with an international perspective.
IBBY World Congress
I’m still in the midst of processing the jam-packed days of IBBY World Congress in Ottawa last week at Carleton University. I wish I could have cloned myself in order to attend more sessions. I came in on my own and stayed on campus. From the wealth of topics, I concentrated on those about children in war, refugees and immigration and it was fascinating to listen to so many perspectives and experiences from around the world.
Even though I am an extreme introvert by nature, I made a point of sitting beside a person I didn’t know over meals, at the lectures, during breaks, and I’m really glad that I did this because I met so many people who were involved in different facets of children’s literature, and from so many countries!
I also had the opportunity to visit in person with a number of my Canadian children’s book friends, particularly Joan Marie Galat and Lindsey Carmichael.
The last time I saw Joan in person was about twenty years ago, yet we recognized each other from across a packed room, and it was as if no time had passed at all! She was doing a poster session on Stories, Science and Dark Skies, and here’s a pic!
Lindsey and I had been working together on some communities initiatives, yet this was the first time we’d met in person. She also was doing a poster session on her upcoming book, The Matilda Effect, about women who’ve been hidden from history.
Bookbird!
So honoured to have two articles referencing my novel, Stolen Child (Stolen Girl) in the newest edition of Bookbird! Thank you Mateusz Świetlicki and Sharon Smulders for writing such interesting pieces. Stolen Child holds a special place in my heart. It was the first of my Scholastic WWII novels, and is the only one set in Canada. It was written as a tribute to my dear late mother-in-law, whose own WWII experiences inspired the story. Here’s a pic of her as a child:
