Surprise Party for Timothy Shmoe & Sully!

Surprise Party for Timothy Shmoe & Sully!

My amazing kids surprised me Wednesday evening with a year-in-the-making book launch party. While The Sorry Life of Timothy Shmoe and Sully, Messed Up were released in April 2021, this was also the month my husband of 40 years, Jeff, died. None of us felt much like...
Timothy Shmoe Selected as 2022 Blue Spruce Honour Book

Timothy Shmoe Selected as 2022 Blue Spruce Honour Book

Congratulations to Peggy Collins (Harley the Hero) for winning this year’s Blue Spruce Forest of Reading award … Happy that Shmoe, alongside No More Plastic by Alma Fullerton, were Honour Books! … Thanks to all the teachers, librarians and students for reading and...
From the Blue Spruce Frontline

From the Blue Spruce Frontline

❤️Love ❤️ seeing these frontline reports from teachers 🧑‍🏫 reading through the Blue Spruce Forest of Reading Books! 📖 ❤️📖...
#IReadCanadian – Feb 17, 2021

#IReadCanadian – Feb 17, 2021

To celebrate the upcoming I Real Canadian Day on February 17, here’s a list of some Canadian books recently ordered from beloved Canadian bookstores (and a bunch already owned and read) plus some amazing Canadian organizations that support Canadian writers I...
Meeting a Literary Legend: Dennis Lee

Meeting a Literary Legend: Dennis Lee

Having had the opportunity to rub shoulders with KidLit Greatness – THE Dennis Lee to my right and the wonderful Patricia Storms, Author & Illustrator to my left – at Mabel’s Fables Bookstore’s 30th Birthday Bash today, I am certain my...