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Anne Millyard grew up in Berlin. At the age of nine she wrote an 89-page
epic tale in her exercise book which, unfortunately, was left behind at the
bottom of her school desk. Bilingual from childhood, she first obtained a
translator's diploma and later studied Art and Design. While working in the
motion picture industry in Munich she met her Canadian husband and
eventually returned with him to Toronto. Two children and seventeen years
later, she co-founded with Rick Wilks the publishing house that would become
Annick Press and publish more than six hundred books for children. Since her
retirement in 2000, Anne has been writing and painting, and reading the
inspiring work of new authors. |
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Born in Edmonton, Maureen Bush was raised in Edmonton and Calgary. She
has worked as a public involvement consultant and trained as a mediator
Her first book was The Nexus Ring (Coteau Books, 2007). Maureen lives in
Calgary with her husband and two daughters. |
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Cary Fagan is an author for adults and children. Among his awards are the
Toronto Book Award, the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction, and the Mr.
Christie Silver Medal. His picture books are Gogol's Coat, The Market
Wedding, Ten Old Men and a Mouse, My New Shirt, and this August 2008 his
newest picture book, Thing-Thing, will be available. He is also the writer of
the popular Kaspar Snit series which includes The Fortress of Kaspar Snit and
Directed by Kaspar Snit. The newest addition to the series, Ten Lessons for
Kaspar Snit, will be available in the fall of 2008. For more information
about the author please visit www.caryfagan.com |
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Karen Patkau is the award-winning author and illustrator of many books for
children. The first book she illustrated was Don't Eat Spiders by Robert
Heidbreder, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal. Several of her
other books have also won prizes including the Our Choice selections Sir
Cassie to the Rescue, Python Play, Creatures Great and Small, and Ringtail
along with Dimensional Illustrator Award-winners In the Sea and Seal is Lost.
For more information about the author please visit www.patkauillustration.com |
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Author and illustrator Sean L. Moore studied classical animation in his native Toronto
until he moved to Vancouver in 1998 to pursue his career. For the past nine years he has
worked as a character designer for a number of popular animated television shows. But it
was in 2001 that he wrote a poem about being afraid of the dark (when he was a kid, of
course.) That poem, along with a caricature self-portrait, became Always Run Up the
Stairs his first picture book. Always Run Up the Stairs (2003) was published by Simply
Read Books and received an honourable mention from the Alcuin Society. His second title
with Simply Read was Veggies, Smeggies (2006) Sean currently lives in Vancouver, BC.
Yellow Blues (2008) is his first titles with Raincoast Books. For more information about
the book, Q&A with Sean L. Moore and Yellow Blues activity sheets visit
www.raincoast.com/yellowblues/ |
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Maxwell Newhouse is one of the country's most accomplished folk artists. His work is exhibited in galleries across Canada. He is well known for his paintings of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which are gathered together for the first time in The RCMP Musical Ride. He has illustrated five books for Tundra, including Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World by Jo Ellen Bogart, Laura Secord by Janet Lunn, and, Let's Go for a Ride, which he both wrote and illustrated and was nominated for a Governor General's Award for Illustration. He lives in Cultus Lake, British Columbia. For more information about Maxwell Newhouse, please visit his website at www.maxwellnewhouse.com |
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Hazel Hutchins was born and raised on the prairies and in the foothills of southern Alberta. As a child she daydreamed a lot...yes, even in school. She also loved stories and wanted to be a writer. Her first short stories were for adults and she began sending them out when she was in high school and university.
She moved to the mountains with her husband and gradually discovered how much she liked writing for younger audiences. From fantasy novels, to picture books, to the “fun and fact-filled” series of books about TJ and his overly-energetic friend Seymour, her writing world continued to grow.
Today Hazel is an award winning author of over forty picture books and novels. She is always on the look-out for a good story idea and keeps a notebook close at hand whether she is walking the trails at home or traveling to schools and libraries across Canada. She also finds it helps to read widely, from amazing facts about cats to theories of the universe to stories of pioneer times to tales of nature....one never knows what bits of information might help a good story grow into something even better. She lives in the mountain town of Canmore, Alberta. Her three wonderful children are fully grown and headed off in directions all their own — but they still show up in her stories...and the family home...from time to time. |
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