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Ted Staunton
Ted Staunton (born March 29, 1956) is a Canadian author and teacher, best known for his children's books and numerous series. He has published nearly sixty titles. ''Puddleman'', his first major work, starting life as an assignment in university, but was later illustrated by internationally recognized artist Brenda Clark. Some of Staunton's titles include the ''Maggie and Cyril series'', ''What Blows Up'', and award-winning ''Who I'm Not''. He also teaches a course, "Writing Children's Fiction", through George Brown College, Toronto. Staunton lives with his family in Port Hope, Ontario. Many of his stories take place in Port Hope. Written works Series Working across multiple publishers, Staunton has written and developed, and contributed to, several series. He wrote ''Jump Cut'', ''Coda'', and ''Speed'', contributing to the over-arching SEVEN series, published by Orca Books. For Scholastic Canada, Staunton contributed ''What Blows Up'', part of The Almost Epic Squad. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Children's literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scienti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmund Brouwer
Sigmund Brouwer (born 1959) is a prolific Canadian author of children's, young adult, and adult books. He has over 100 titles and four million books in print. Brouwer's novel, ''Dead Man's Switch'', won the Arthur Ellis Award in 2015 for Canada's best young adult mystery of the year. His adult novel, ''Thief of Glory'', was Book of the Year for the Christy Awards and a winner of the Alberta Readers Choice Awards. ''The Last Disciple'', co-authored by Hank Hanegraaf, was featured in ''Time'' magazine. Early life and education Brouwer is a Dutch Canadian, as his Dutch parents Willem and Gerda immigrated to Red Deer, Alberta following their childhood survival of World War II. Brouwer was born and raised in Red Deer, Alberta, where he currently lives. Brouwer holds an undergraduate Commerce degree from Calvin College, as well as being a graduate of Carleton University's journalism program. As a young adult, Brouwer was an accomplished athlete. At the age of 22, Brouwer won the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Children's Writers
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of Short story, short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous Fact-checking, fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''The New York Times, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Grann
David Elliot Grann (born March 10, 1967) is an American journalist, a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and a best-selling author. His first book, '' The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon,'' was published by Doubleday in February 2009. After its first week of publication, it debuted on ''The New York Times'' bestseller list at #4. Grann's articles have been collected in several anthologies, including ''What We Saw: The Events of September 11, 2001'', ''The Best American Crime Writing'' of 2004 and 2005, and ''The Best American Sports Writing'' of 2003 and 2006. He has written for ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The Washington Post,'' ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''The Weekly Standard''. According to a profile in ''Slate'', Grann has a reputation as a "workhorse reporter", which has made him a popular journalist who "inspires a devotion in readers that can border on the obsessive." Early life Grann was born on March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Bourdin
Frédéric Pierre Bourdin (born 13 June 1974)Mick Brown''The Daily Telegraph'', 11 August 2012. is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon". He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities,Laura Plitt, producer"Frederic Bourdin – the man who changed his identity 500 times,"BBC News, 19 October 2012. three being teenage missing people. Early life Born in Nanterre, Bourdin was raised by his grandparents in Nantes until he ran away and eventually went to Paris. He never knew his father, who his mother stated was a married Algerian immigrant named Kaci.David Grann"The Chameleon: The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin,"''The New Yorker'', 11 August 2008. Impersonations Nicholas Barclay, aged 13 at the time he went missing, was last seen playing basketball with his friends in his home town of San Antonio, Texas, on 13 June 1994. Barclay never made it home and has not been seen or heard from since. In 1997, Bourdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Peacock (writer)
Shane Peacock is a Canadian novelist, playwright, journalist, and television screenwriter. His first book ''The Great Farini'' was a biography of the colourful Canadian personality William Leonard Hunt. His plays have been produced by the 4th Line Theatre; his documentaries have included ''Team Spirit'', aired on the CTV Television Network, CTV national network, and among his novels are ''Last Message'', part of the Seven Series for young readers; ''Double You'', its sequel; and ''Separated'', its prequel. His best-selling series for young adults, ''The Boy Sherlock Holmes'', has been published in ten countries in twelve languages and has appeared on more than forty shortlists. It won the prestigious Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, IODE Violet Downey Book Award, two Arthur Ellis Awards for crime fiction, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, the Libris Award, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Awards#Governor General's Literary Awards, Govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norah McClintock
Norah McClintock (March 11, 1952 – February 6, 2017) was a Canadian writer of young adult fiction who published more than 60 books. She won five Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence. Biography McClintock was born March 11, 1952 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, where she also grew up. She received a Bachelor of Arts in history and a graduate degree in medieval history from McGill University. She later lived in Toronto. She was a member of the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators, and Performers and Crime Writers of Canada. McClintock married Herman Rosenfeld and had two daughters: Quinn and Brooke. She died of ovarian cancer on February 6, 2017. Awards and honours ''Hit and Run'' and ''I, Witness'' are Junior Library Guild books. 1990s 2000s 2010s Publications Standalone mystery novels * ''End of the Line,'' RFP Publications, 1981. * ''Shakespeare and Legs,'' Scholastic Canada, 1987. * ''Sixty-four, Sixty-five'', McClelland & Stewart, 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Clark
Brenda Clark (born February 10, 1955) is a Canadian illustrator, perhaps best known for her work on the Franklin the Turtle series of children's books. She was born in Toronto and studied illustration at Sheridan College. She now lives in Port Hope. Several books in the Franklin series have received awards from the Canadian Children's Book Centre. An animated television series ''Franklin'' based on the Franklin the Turtle books appeared on Canadian and American television. Canada Post issued a stamp featuring Franklin the Turtle in 2012. A second television series ''Franklin and Friends'' appeared in more than fifteen countries. Clark was named to the Order of Canada in 2014. Selected work * ''Sadie and the Snowman'' (1985) text by Allen Morgan * ''Franklin in the Dark'' (1986) text by Paulette Bourgeois * ''Little Fingerling'' (1989) text by Monica Hughes, received a book award from the Toronto chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire The Imperial Order Daughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wilson (Canadian Writer)
John Wilson (born Edinburgh, Scotland, 1951) is a Canadian author. Biography Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 3, 1951. He grew up on the Island of Skye, and in Paisley. After university, where he obtained a degree in Geology, Wilson worked as a geologist in Zimbabwe, before moving to Canada. For nine years, he worked for the Alberta Geological Survey in Edmonton. In 1989, Wilson wrote an article that was published by ''The Globe and Mail''. Wilson writes historical fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of over 30 books, 300 articles and essays, and 30 poems. Wilson now lives in Lantzville Lantzville is a coastal community on the east side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, along the western shore of the Strait of Georgia and immediately north of Nanaimo. The District of Lantzville was incorporated on June 25, 2003. I ... on Vancouver Island. Bibliography Fiction * Across Frozen Seas * Ghosts of James Bay * Adrift in Time * Red Goodwin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Scrimger
Richard Scrimger (born 1957) is a Canadian writer who has published fourteen books since 1996. He is best known for his children's literature, but has also written three books for adults: ''Crosstown'', ''Still Life With Children'' and ''Mystical Rose''. A winner of the Mr. Christie Award (for ''The Nose From Jupiter'') and recipient of dozens of award nominations, Scrimger is a favourite with many children and adults. All of his novels except ''The Boy From Earth'' and ''Still Life With Children'' have been short-listed for readers' choice awards. Several of his books have been named to Best-of, or Top-ten, or Notable lists by various libraries and publications, including Young Adult Library Services Association, Chicago Public Library, American Library Association, Time Out New York Kids, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire. His books have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Thai, Korean, Portuguese, Slovenian, Italian, and Polish. Life and work Scrimger was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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