This award-winning book is a series of vignettes from the first person narrator, Amelia Douglas (Mia), during elementary school in the 1980s. Each short chapter gives readers an intimate insight into what it was like to belong to the Indigenous community of Tsimshian while growing up in the small coastal town of Prince Rupert, British […]
Category: Books
Happy World Environment Day!
For this year’s World Environment Day, the UN Environment Program is leading a campaign to #BeatPlasticPollution. I have a book set to release in 2024 with Orca Footprints, What Poo Can Do: How Animals are Fighting the Climate Crisis, that tackles plastic pollution in the first chapter on whales. The book I’m currently writing, BUGS […]
Giveaway!
It’s one week till the official launch of my latest science book for kids, Evolution Under Pressure, and I just found out it’s a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! To celebrate, I’m giving away one of my author copies!! Enter to win the giveaway before May 30th. [sweepwidget id=”70418″ url=”0ys79daw”]
Those Kids From Fawn Creek
I went on the record during my CBC Radio interview about the challenge of including multiple characters in a book without creating character soup. In Elliot Jelly-Legs, I wanted to include an entire hockey team (or most of it). The solution was hockey cards inserted in the text as each character is introduced. In Those […]
Linked
Will prolific kid-lit author, Gordon Korman, ever run out of ideas? I reviewed his book, The Hypnotists, in this post on my old website and included Ungifted in my SciWhy article Science in Middle Grade Fiction. But those are just a few of many great titles by Gordon Korman, who keeps finding new ways to […]