Super excited that The Sorry Life of Timothy Shmoe has been nominated alongside all these great picture books for the 2022 Blue Spruce Award. The Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest recreational reading program. I love that it’s the kids who will do the judging...
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...
Northwest Territories, with an area of 1.3 million square km, is 35,000 times as big as my town of Newmarket, Ontario. Despite this, my small town has almost double the population of the entire Northwest Territories – 84k people vs. 45k people. One of the things I was...
It is remarkable, in a way, that teachers across the country have found a way to wedge The Christmas Wind Story Project into an already full curriculum. They’ve not only fit the project in week by week, but embraced it and, with their students, fallen in love with it....
One part of the Christmas Wind Story Project that evolved, because it was too good to pass up, was an initiative to fuel communication between the 13 classes across the country. School/Province “Trading Cards” were produced which they mailed to each other so they...
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