No Roundtable Meeting In March

The Victoria Childrens' Literature Roundtable will be joining the children of Victoria in their extended Spring Break this year, but we will return on April 26th, 2010 with another stellar presenter: Jeremy Tankard.

Jeremy Tankard is the author and illustrator of several books, including the best-selling, and the critically acclaimed, Grumpy Bird (Scholastic Press, 2007). Grumpy Bird has been nominated for many awards including the Blue Spruce Award 2008, The Shining Willow Award 2008, and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award 2008—a truly outstanding achievement for a first book. His most recent book, Boo Hoo Bird (Scholastic Press, 2009), received a starred review in Quill and Quire in January 2009.

Jeremy’s illustrations have appeared in many major magazines and newspapers including Time, Fortune, the New York Times, the Globe and Mail and the Boston Globe. He has been recognized by American Illustration magazine, the Society of Illustrators in New York City, and the American Association of Educational Publishers. His work has been exhibited in New York, Toronto and Calgary.

Join in the fun: Monday, April 26, 2010, 7:30 pm at the Nellie McClung Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library,(Cedar Hill & McKenzie).

For More Information: 250-598-3694

Doors Open at 7:00 pm, come and browse the Cadboro Bay Books table.
Everyone welcome! Cost: $5.00 at the door, Students $4.00, $25.00/year

Contest Time!

How would you like to win a $75 gift certificate to Cadboro Bay Books this spring? To be eligible, all you need to do is have a current membership to the VCLR and bring a friend to one of our monthly meetings. Bring a friend to three meetings and your name will be entered three times!

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Next Roundatable Meeting: Monday, February 15, 2010

Our next meeting is happening on Monday, February 15, 2010, 7:30 pm at Nellie McClung Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, (Cedar Hill & McKenzie). Doors Open at 7:00 pm, come and browse the Cadboro Bay Books table. 

Everyone welcome! Cost: $5.00 at the door, Students $4.00, $25.00/year

February's meeting features Sarah Harvey. Harvey caught the bookselling bug at fifteen when she got a part-time job at Ivy's Bookshop. She went back to university in her thirties, when her children were three and ten. After graduating with a degree in English she worked as the trade book buyer at the University of Victoria Bookstore for fifteen years. She currently works as a children's book editor.

She started writing reviews for the Globe and Mail in 1988 and had book columns in both the Times Colonist and Monday Magazine. In 1999, she became friends with author Carol Shields who invited her to submit an essay, entitled "Mother, Interrupted," to Dropped Threads 2, published in 2001.  Carol also suggested that she consider writing children's books; now Sarah is the author of four books for children:  Puppies on Board, The West is Calling, Bull’s Eye, and The Lit Report.

“Playing with Story” workshop with Margaret Read MacDonald

Learn several lively audience-participation folktales and leave ready-to-tell. Plan a story time for the week following the workshop so you can put your new tales to use! The workshop will also include a brief discussion of the art of the folktale picture book and the path a folktale takes from traditional teller to published book. Bibliographies for more telling resources will be provided.

Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald is an internationally renowned and respected storyteller, folklorist, children’s librarian, and author of numerous essential story-telling books. Her workshops empower the beginning teller, quickly turning novices into eager tellers. For more information, visit: www.margaretreadmacdonald.com


Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Central Library, Greater Victoria Public Library (735 Broughton Street, Victoria, BC) Cost: IslandLink Member Libraries – no charge. All others: BCLA members - $30.00 per person, non-BCLA members - $40.00 per person.
Registration deadline: December 31, 2009



For more information, please call Katherine Anderson at 250-383-9409 or email kanderson@islandlink.bclibrary.ca

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