by Pam | Sep 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sure, it has already won an award (The Ontario Library Association’s 2016 White Pine Honour Book Award), but I’m giving it another: best young-adult novel I’ve read in a very long time, and best one in the pile of 20 YA novels I had to take home and...
by Pam | Sep 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
What’s the most beautiful place in the world? A place of quiet inspiration and nature that takes one’s breath away? I’ve just returned from it, and am still under its magic spell. Who’d have thought I’d find a place more beautiful than the one I’m privileged to...
by Pam | Sep 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Author Feature: Pam Withers See an interview with me regarding my newly released middle-grade adventure novel from Orca Book Publishers. And tomorrow morning, my blog will offer an inside story of how it came about: pamwithers.com...
by Pam | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
A key reason boys struggle more than girls in school and life: Adults fail to help them get comfortable with reading at a young age. Boys read less than girls do. Parents read to boys for shorter periods of time than they read to girls. Teen girls read almost...
by Pam | Aug 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
When a company offers materials, supplies or money to a school, it’s a kind gesture, a simple tax write-off and good public relations for the business, correct? Not to mention a boon to the cash-strapped school that involves no...
by Pam | Aug 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
I just took a weekend pause for my birthday. And it was a perfect pause, a wonderful getaway. A cabin in the woods on an island I hadn’t visited for years, with my loving husband of 31 years. A couple of hikes, a picnic, a delicious dinner at an Italian...
