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Jan Thornhill at Cat Sass on Sunday March 24!
Cat Sass Literary Nights, a reading series in Norwood, Ontario, will be hosting Jan Thornhill on:
Sunday, March 24, 2013
from 2:00 until 3:30 pm.
4255 Hwy 7
Norwood, Ontario
K0L-2V0
This event is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts.
Please join my wonderful friend, children’s author and illustrator, Jan Thornhill, for a fun and interactive afternoon exploring her nature books and her “museum-in-a-bag”—Jan’s collection of animal skulls, desiccated insects, dinosaur bones, snake skins, mummified hummingbirds, and lots more.
Jan Thornhill is the internationally acclaimed author and illustrator of twelve books for children that are published around the world and have won numerous awards. Most recently, the Learning Partnership, a literacy charity, has chosen two of Jan’s books, The Wildlife ABC and Over in the Meadow, to be distributed free to almost 200,000 pre-schoolers across the country in the Welcome to Kindergarten program. Jan’s most recent book is Who Wants Pizza? The Kid’s Guide to the History, Science & Culture of Food. She has just completed a new picture book, Is This Panama? A Migration Story, which will be published later this year.
Jan lives near Havelock with her husband, artist Fred Gottschalk, and six goldfish. She spends her spare time hanging out in the woods looking for animal skulls and obsessively collecting and cataloguing wild mushrooms, weird fungi, and slime molds.
Jan’s books will be available for sale and she will be happy to sign these and any others your family already owns.
www.janthornhill.comWho Wants Pizza?: The Kids' Guide to the History, Science and Culture of Food
Sunday, March 24, 2013
from 2:00 until 3:30 pm.
4255 Hwy 7
Norwood, Ontario
K0L-2V0
This event is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts.
Please join my wonderful friend, children’s author and illustrator, Jan Thornhill, for a fun and interactive afternoon exploring her nature books and her “museum-in-a-bag”—Jan’s collection of animal skulls, desiccated insects, dinosaur bones, snake skins, mummified hummingbirds, and lots more.
Jan Thornhill is the internationally acclaimed author and illustrator of twelve books for children that are published around the world and have won numerous awards. Most recently, the Learning Partnership, a literacy charity, has chosen two of Jan’s books, The Wildlife ABC and Over in the Meadow, to be distributed free to almost 200,000 pre-schoolers across the country in the Welcome to Kindergarten program. Jan’s most recent book is Who Wants Pizza? The Kid’s Guide to the History, Science & Culture of Food. She has just completed a new picture book, Is This Panama? A Migration Story, which will be published later this year.
Jan lives near Havelock with her husband, artist Fred Gottschalk, and six goldfish. She spends her spare time hanging out in the woods looking for animal skulls and obsessively collecting and cataloguing wild mushrooms, weird fungi, and slime molds.
Jan’s books will be available for sale and she will be happy to sign these and any others your family already owns.
www.janthornhill.comWho Wants Pizza?: The Kids' Guide to the History, Science and Culture of Food
Is Running A Reading Series A Rite of Passage?
I went to Jarvis C.I. with Maria Meindl, although we didn't know each other well back then. I was re-acquainted recently when she invited me to read at her Draft Reading Series
Here she waxes poetic on the closing of Book City, the murder of Emmanuel Jacques, and Britnell's Books. The last two don't make much sense unless you were there for Toronto in the 70's.
Now I wonder--is running a reading series a rite of passage? I started Cat Sass Reading Series because I missed Peterborough's The Cooked and Eaten, and had learned so much working on that project with Esther Vincent that seemed a shame to waste...and, perhaps most importantly, I had Cat Sass--who provided both a venue and enthusiastic partnership. But now I look around and wonder whether it's part of becoming a grown-up writer. So many writers I know have started or worked on a reading series, including Sang Kim, Halli Villegas, Heather Wood, Sandra Kasturi, David Clink, Bruce Kauffman, Emily Pohl-Weary, and more. As with editing anthologies, it's a way to gain insight into the lives and concerns of other writers, and as such, a way to break out of isolation and become a more active community member. I'm grateful I started working on collaborative projects decades ago, including theater pieces and journalism--so many emerging fiction writers of any age unfortunately seem every bit as self-obsessed as the most unflattering stereotypes make us out to be...
Check out Maria's book...Outside the Box: The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew
Here she waxes poetic on the closing of Book City, the murder of Emmanuel Jacques, and Britnell's Books. The last two don't make much sense unless you were there for Toronto in the 70's.
Now I wonder--is running a reading series a rite of passage? I started Cat Sass Reading Series because I missed Peterborough's The Cooked and Eaten, and had learned so much working on that project with Esther Vincent that seemed a shame to waste...and, perhaps most importantly, I had Cat Sass--who provided both a venue and enthusiastic partnership. But now I look around and wonder whether it's part of becoming a grown-up writer. So many writers I know have started or worked on a reading series, including Sang Kim, Halli Villegas, Heather Wood, Sandra Kasturi, David Clink, Bruce Kauffman, Emily Pohl-Weary, and more. As with editing anthologies, it's a way to gain insight into the lives and concerns of other writers, and as such, a way to break out of isolation and become a more active community member. I'm grateful I started working on collaborative projects decades ago, including theater pieces and journalism--so many emerging fiction writers of any age unfortunately seem every bit as self-obsessed as the most unflattering stereotypes make us out to be...
Check out Maria's book...Outside the Box: The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew
