https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqDPAKiWPmE&t=32s
I was honored this past spring to be one of 9 authors interviewed during a week-long celebration of the Ontario Library Association’s annual Forest of Reading event. This was thanks to my young-adult novel Stowaway (Dundurn Press) being nominated for a Forest of Reading award. The event was hosted by the Peel School District in Ontario. Click on the link above to watch my interview and reading.
Thousands of students and teachers participated in this celebration, all virtually. The clip also features “queen” of ceremonies Melanie Mulcaster, instructional coordinator for libraries in the Peel District School Board. The virtual event was hosted by Daniel Lewis, Peel graduate, entrepreneur and motivational speaker.
The full list of Canadian authors who took part :
Helaine Becker – Counting on Katherine
Phillippa Dowding – Oculum
Zetta Elliot – Dragons in a Bag
Serah-Marie McMahon – Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed and Murdered Through History
Natasha Deen – In the Key of Ghani
Kenneth Oppel – Inkling
Anna Humphrey – Megabat
Pam Withers – Stowaway
Kevin Sylvester – Follow Your Stuff: What Makes it, Where Does It Come From, How Does it Get to You?
(Find them by scrolling down this list: https://www.youtube.com/user/PeelSchools/videos to where it says “Peel Virtual Forest of Reading.”)
