Tag: scholastic

Upcoming book events

Next week, I’ll be touring for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre in North Vancouver and Pemberton BC. There is one open event at the NVPL. More info here.

I’ll be back in Toronto on May 14th, at Koota Oooma!

On May 21, I’ll be with London Ukrainian Canadian Congress for a book talk. A portion from book sales will be donated to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation. There will also be a raffle, and I’ve donated some hard-to-get editions of various books. May 21 is Vyshyvanka Day, and I will be wearing my newest traditional embroidered blouse! It will be neat to see a variety of vyshyvanky!!

On May 24th, I’ll be close to home, doing an event hosted by my favourite local bookstore, Riverside Bookshelf!

Mabel’s Fables triple book launch!

Many thanks to Eleanor LeFave and Mabel’s Fables for hosting a wonderful triple book launch last night! April is Canadian Independent Booksellers’ Month, so it was especially sweet to be in this iconic Canadian children’s bookstore right now.

It was an honour to be introducing my newest book with kidlit powerhouses Lorna Schultz Nicholson and Anna Rosner. An interesting and storied evening. And there were cookies and fruit! Thanks to everyone who came out and made it such a meaningful event.

Triple Book Launch at Mabel’s Fables!


So excited to be launching book #3 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine
trilogy at a triple book launch with fabulous Canadian children’s
writers, Anna Rosner and her newest, Last Year with Maddie, and Lorna Schultz Nicholson and her newest, The Man in Motion! Hope to see you
there!

Under Attack receives Social Studies Books Award

Thrilled to learn that KIDNAPPED FROM UKRAINE #1: UNDER ATTACK has been named a Winner of the 2026 NCSS-CBC Social Studies Books Award!

Here’s the full list.

The Notable Social Studies Trade Book Awards are an annual project of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) running since 1972. This award list features K-12 annotated titles published in the previous calendar year that are exceptional books for use in social studies classrooms, selected by social studies educators.

More pics and feedback for World Read Aloud Day

Teacher feedback: Thank you so much for once again joining us at Gideon Welles School in Glastonbury, CT, for World Read Aloud Day! We are so grateful for the time you took from your busy schedule to meet with us. Our students devour your books and have been writing historical fiction themselves. Your presentation was so supportive of what the English teachers are teaching right now-it was perfect timing!

5th grade students at Paramount Elementary, Washington DC
Merritt Bench Elementary BC
Love seeing well-thumbed copies of my books!

WRAD — eleven schools!

I did ten virtual WRAD sessions today, plus the one on Monday night with Tashkent International School. Fantastic students, fantastic questions. Great organizing by educators! The top pic is from Highland MS, Libertyville IL. The bottom is from Allendale MS, MI. The bottom pic shows two books that I think students will enjoy reading. Sheryl Azzam’s Red Flags and Butterflies, and Chrystyna K. Lucyk-Berger’s Swimming With Spies.