Next Meeting: Monday, May 6, 2013

Victoria Children's Literature Roundtable Meeting

Monday, May 6, 2013

Nellie McClung Branch Library (Cedar Hill & McKenzie)
Doors Open 7:00 pm; meeting starts at 7:30 pm.
Browse Schoolhouse Teaching Supplies and Children's Bookstore table from 7:00 pm.
Everyone Welcome! Cost $5.00 at the door; $4.00 students; $25/year.

Celebrate Canadian Children's Book Week! 

Come and hear Marthe Jocelyn talk about her most recent book, Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives. An award-winning author and illustrator, Marthe was a toy designer before turning her hand to writing. She has written picture books, novels and non-fiction, including Hannah's Collections, Earthly Astonishments, and A Home for Foundlings. To read about Marthe, go to her website:  Marthe Jocelyn

We gratefully acknowledge Canada Council for the Arts for this presentation.

Also at this meeting:
Joy Huebert, librarian and writer, will to give a short presentation about the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for the best illustrated picture book for children published in Canada.

Next Meeting: Monday, April 15, 2013

Victoria Children's Literature Roundtable Meeting

Monday, April 15, 2013

Nellie McClung Branch Library (Cedar Hill & McKenzie)
Doors Open 7:00 pm; meeting starts at 7:30 pm.
Everyone Welcome! Cost $5.00 at the door; $4.00 students; $25/year.
Browse the CanLit For Kids Books table before the meeting.

Join us for Teen Night with author Joelle Anthony! Joelle's two novels, Restoring Harmony and The Right and the Real, feature feisty heroines, lively plots, and page-turning action.

Joelle currently lives on a tiny island in British Columbia with her musician husband Victor Anthony, and their  cat, Miss Marley. As for the future, their plan is to avoid real jobs, write and play guitar in front of the wood stove, and live happily ever after. (Joelle Anthony's website)

Also at this meeting:
Orca Books will present their Spring Titles list!

Next Meeting: Monday, February 25, 2013

Victoria Children's Literature Roundtable Meeting

Monday, February 25, 2013

Nellie McClung Branch Library (Cedar Hill & McKenzie)
Doors Open 7:00 pm; meeting begins 7:30 pm.
Everyone welcome! Cost $5.00 at the door; $4.00 students; $25/year.
Browse the CanLit For Kids book table!

Debut author Caitlyn Vernon, winner of the 2012 Bolen Book Prize, will tell us about her uplifting ecology book, Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest, and how she got started as a writer. 

Caitlyn Vernon grew up on British Columbia's Pacific Coast and now calls Victoria home. She will never be too big to wade in the ocean in her gumboots, poke around in tide pools, explore coastal forests or climb trees and mountains. Caitlyn has a background in biology and environmental studies and is currently a campaigner with Sierra Club BC, working to protect the Great Bear Rainforest. Nowhere Else on Earth is her first book.

Next Meeting: Monday, January 21, 2013

Victoria Children's Literature Roundtable Meeting

Monday, January 21, 2013

Nellie McClung Branch Library (Cedar Hill & McKenzie)
Doors Open 7:00 pm; meeting begins 7:30 pm. 
Everyone welcome! Cost $5.00 at the door; $4.00 students; $25/year.

Kit Pearson, beloved award winning children’s author, well known for her amazing historical fiction books, will discuss her new books, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth, and talk about her life as an author. The Whole Truth won the CLA Book of the Year Award for Children and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award in 2012. The Whole Truth was shortlisted for the Bolen Book Prize 2012. For more information about Kit Pearson, see her website: Kit Pearson