Book Week Tour 2009

TD Canadian Children’s Book Week runs from Saturday, November 14 to Saturday, November 21, 2009. Twenty-nine English-speaking authors, illustrators and storytellers will be visiting schools, libraries, bookstores and community centres in every province and territory across the country.
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The Book Week tour participants will travel to the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador, across the Prairies, through the mountains of British Columbia and up to the very tips of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. They will visit schools, libraries, community centres and bookstores in every province and territory and speak to their audiences about the pleasures of reading, writing and illustrating books for children and teens.

Over 35,000 children, teens and adults will take part in the readings and workshops that will be given by the Book Week touring authors, illustrators and storytellers.

Who’s On Tour

Alberta
Vicki Grant, author
Larry Verstraete, author

British Columbia

Interior
Chuck Temple, illustrator

Lower Mainland
Kelley Armstrong, author

Vancouver Island
Adrienne Kress, author

Manitoba
Jacob Berkowitz, author
Lori Weber, author

New Brunswick
Tim Wynne-Jones, author

Newfoundland
Jeremy Tankard, author & illustrator

Labrador
Deborah Dunleavy, storyteller

Northwest Territories
Carol Leigh Wehking, storyteller

Nova Scotia
Jamie Bastedo, author

Nunavut
Patricia Storms, author & illustrator

Ontario
Wendy Berner, storyteller
Sigmund Brouwer, author
Claire Eamer, author
Susan Mitchell, illustrator
Ashley Spires, author & illustrator
Heidi Jardine Stoddart, author & illustrator
Mindy Willett, author

Prince Edward Island
Kari-Lynn Winters, author

Quebec (English-language tour)
Kristin Butcher, author
Charis Cotter, author
James Heneghan, author
David Poulsen, author
C.J. Taylor, author, illustrator & storyteller

Saskatchewan
Curtis Parkinson, author
Valerie Sherrard, author

Yukon
Hugh Brewster, author