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What did you read today?

On February 12, 2013   /   Contest, Event, Literacy   /   Leave a comment

The National Reading Campaign’s “What Did You Read Today?” contest winners have been chosen! Read on for the message shared with us today from the National Reading Campaign. What did you read today? Public Campaign Congratulations to the 10 winners of the contest for the general public:

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Kit Pearson speaks at next Victoria Children’s Lit Roundtable

On January 16, 2013   /   Author, Event   /   Leave a comment

Kit Pearson, award-winning children’s author, will discuss her new books, The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth, and talk about her life as an author at the next Victoria Children’s Literature Roundtable on Monday, January 21. The Whole Truth won the CLA Book of the Year

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Victoria Fall Book Launch

On November 5, 2012   /   Author, Event, News, Orca   /   Leave a comment

Please join Sara Cassidy (Seeing Orange), John Wilson (Lost Cause), Alex Van Tol (Shallow Grave and Oracle), Sean Rodman (Dead Run), Lou Allin (Contingency Plan), Sheryl McFarlane (Island Santa—author) and Sheena Lott (Island Santa—illustrator) as they launch their new books this fall! Come meet the authors, enjoy

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Write On! Catherine Austen visits Ottawa Teen Author Fest

On October 23, 2012   /   Author, Event, Writing   /   Leave a comment

Find out what it takes to write like a pro from a panel of published authors. Catherine Austen, author of last year’s award-winning dystopian teen fiction title All Good Children, will be part of a YA discussion panel in Ottawa as part of Teen Author Fest. Catherine

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Seven (the Series) authors team up at Vancouver Writers Fest

On September 25, 2012   /   Author, Educators, Event, News   /   Leave a comment
Seven (the Series) authors team up at Vancouver Writers Fest

The launch of Seven (the Series) is just around the corner, and just a few days after the launch, three of the seven authors (John Wilson, Shane Peacock and Richard Scrimger) will team up at the Vancouver Writers Fest to discuss their parts in the project. If

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Nowhere Else on Earth a Victoria Book Prize finalist!

On September 17, 2012   /   Author, Awards, Event, News, Orca   /   Leave a comment
Nowhere Else on Earth a Victoria Book Prize finalist!

Congratulations to Caitlyn Vernon, whose Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest has been named a finalist for the 2012 Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize. The winners will be announced at an awards gala at the Union Club of Victoria on October 10 at 7:30.

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