Daily Archives: August 6, 2009

A lot has happened since I’ve been wanting to make a new site. Now that it’s ready, I am going to go ahead and list a couple of things that happened after the release of my first Book ‘The Day it all blew Away’. Seeing as I’ve never had a blog before there is a lot that I would like to retroactively put up here regarding my first book especially. One of these days I’d like to have a whole site just for my kids books, but it definitely won’t be anytime too soon!

In March 2008 ‘The Day It All Blew Away’ got nominated for the Christie Harris Illustrated Book Price for the BC Book Awards!

Because of this I got to go on a Book Tour around the lower Mainland along with 3 other authors! It was sooooooo much fun! Luckily I did a couple of school visits before the tour so I was well prepared for doing readings in front of classes and already had a certain structure worked out for presentations. Well, … sort of. :) It was really fantastic to meet all of these kids who were so interested, smart and insightful. It was super cool to get to read my book to all of these classes in the lower mainland! Also, BC Book Prizes highly encouraged all the finalists to write about our experiences on tour on the BC Book Prizes Tour Blog, which I did, so if you want, you can check that out for more in-depth recollections regarding my book tour. Also there are quite a few photos on the blog. I will try to post a few here below for convenience sake. Jamie from BC Book Prizes was also very smart in having the idea of making a short video of me doing a reading in front of a class. I like it because of all the kids reactions you can hear in it, even though I seem a bit of a dork in it, but I guess that’s just my usual self. :)

At Brighhouse School

Robert Heidbreder, Librarian Felicity Eadon and me at Boundary Elementary.

At Hastings Elementary

Me doing a presentation at the downtown VPL

Me reading Elf the Eagle illustrated by Ruth Campbell

Presentation at Mission Library