Dr. Kari-Lynn Winters is an award-winning Canadian children’s author, poet, playwright, performer, and Full Professor at Brock University. Since 2007, she has authored over 40 books for young readers. Her books have received numerous honours, including the Rainforest of Reading Award (Bad Pirate), two British Columbia Book Prize Silver Medals, and multiple nominations for the Forest […]

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch‘s award-winning books for young people include Last Airlift, a Red Cedar Information Book Award winner and OLA Red Maple Honour Book. Its sequel, One Step at a Time, won the OLA Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Her YA novel Dance of the Banished was a Junior Library Guild Selection for 2015. In 2008, […]

Maureen Fergus is an award-winning author who has published dozens of books for young people. Maureen’s books have been translated into dozens of languages, optioned for film, and shortlisted for many awards, including the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, The Sunshine State Young Readers Award, and more. Her picture book Buddy and Earl was a […]

Michelle Barker wrote A Year of Borrowed Men from the early childhood memories of her mother, Gerda. A versatile writer, Michelle has published short fiction; nonfiction; a fantasy novel, The Beggar King; and a book of poetry. She has lived and travelled in many places with her husband and four children, settling most recently in […]

Jennifer Maruno is the author of seven novels for middle grade and young adult readers as well as the picture book Moose’s Roof. Her novels have been nominated for the Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award, the Hamilton Arts and Culture Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award, and more. She received her Bachelor of Arts […]

When she was little, Emmanuelle Grundmann dreamed about the Amazon, about monkeys, and about flying above the canopy on feathered wings. Since then she has become an author and speaker with a doctorate in ethology (the science of animal behavior) and conservation. Emmanuelle writes and travels the planet for biodiversity-themed conferences and exhibits, with a […]

Angèle Delaunois was born in France and immigrated to Canada as a young woman. She earned a degree in visual arts at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, where she went on to work as a department head for ten years. Since then she has worked as a textile designer, a manager of book and […]

Michèle Marineau is an award-winning writer and translator of books for young people. She studied medicine, art history, and translation at the Université de Montréal and worked as a free- lance editor for several years. Her rst novel, Cassiopée ou l’été po- lonaise, won the Governor General’s Award for French-Language Children’s Literature in 1988; her […]

Catherine Buquet has never forgotten the books that mesmerized her as a child. After completing her studies in Modern Literature and teaching for several years, she began writing stories for children, and is now a full-time writer. Catherine has read countless stories: at bedtime and during the day; at university, to her students; and to […]

In 1980, Vanessa Ho Gatensby was just three years old when her father and eldest sister escaped from their home in South Vietnam. A year later, her mother, brother, and two older sisters also escaped in the middle of the night. For the next four years she waited to be reunited with her family while […]