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About Me

Former elementary Special Education & ESL Teacher and Teacher-Librarian. Parent to teens. Forest of Reading and CBC Canada Reads nerd. Loves books, kids, animals, gardening, martial arts, coffee, popcorn and chocolate -- not always in that order -- and receiving book recommendations from our youngest patrons.

My Interests

Picture books, early readers & chapter books, children’s novels, youth non-fiction, Can Lit.

My Favourites

Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, (1977-)
Home by Tonya K. Lippert
Waiting is not easy! by Mo Willems
Our house is on fire by Beata Ernman
The madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis
Geeger the Robot goes to school! by Jarrett Lerner
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The stone thrower by Jael Ealey Richardson, (1980-)
A song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
Indians on vacation by Thomas King, (1943-)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
On the trapline by David Robertson, (1977-)

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