Sheryl McFarlane

Don’t miss, author Polly Horvath Monday February 17th, 7:30 pm at the Victoria Children’s Literature Roundtable!

Polly Horvath, winner of the 2013 Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize for One Year in Coal Harbour, will join us to talk about her writing career. Polly’s award-winning books, such as The Trolls, The Canning Season, and My One-Hundred Adventures, delight children with their quirky sense of humor, rich language and plucky heroines.

Also at this meeting:

A presentation of The Great Plastic Round-up, featuring The Cascadian Crusaders, a book by local authors Michelle Peters, Haemish Beaton, Alex Witcombe and Jarrett Krentzel, illustrations by Alex Witcombe. Learn about all the plastic in our oceans and what we can do about it. Book the Cascadian Crusaders to bring their program to your school.

The VCLR is open to the public. Members free, drop-ins $5, students $4. Meetings are held at the Nellie McClung Branch Library, 3950 Cedar Hill Road.

Doors open at 7 pm. Browse Schoolhouse Teaching Supplies and Children’s Bookstore’s table before the meeting. Bring a friend!

For more information about the Roundtable, call 250-598-3694, find us on Facebook, or visit:

www.victoriachildrensliteratureroundtable.blogspot.com.

I’m thrilled to hear that Jessie’s Island continues to be a BC Bestseller…number 2 on the list; not bad for a book first published in 1992.

Just in the nick of time!  Stephen at Crow Cottage Publishing has managed to pull together Island Santa as an ebook in record time.  Stephen is awesome.  With Sheena Lott’s gorgeous watercolors, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s a lovely present for a child or grandchild. And, it’s in keeping with the holiday spirit since it helps to support Jeneece Place, a local home away from home for families who need to bring their children for medical treatment to the city.

If you’re looking for other fine audio enhanced e-picture books for children, be sure to check out Crow Cottage’s other titles. Their books are the kind that you and your kids will treasure for years to come.

Here’s a kidlit version of the traditional “Twelve Days of Christmas.”  Enjoy!

It was a chilly minus 8 degrees Celsius (about 18 degrees Fahrenheit) last night but the streets of Victoria were lined with crowds of young and old bundled up against the cold. The 15th annual Xmas Truck parade is kind of unique to Victoria but it shouldn’t be.  Local truckers decorate their trucks and wind their way through the city.  Food donation boxes are spread out along the route with volunteers dropping the boxes off at the end of the festivities. Everyone gets to enjoy a free, community based activity and we are all given an easy way to donate locally.This year, 75 trucks participated. It’s a total win win.  I love it.

I’m so pleased to hear that Jessie’s Island is on the BC Children’s Best Sellers Book List again this year. It’s one of the top five best sellers in BC. It was first published in 1992, and it’s still going strong thanks to great art work by Sheena Lott, a fabulous publisher, keen readers like you, the awesome teachers who introduce it to kids,  the wonderful book stores that continue to recommend it.Thanks to Lois Peterson for the heads up, and congratulations Lois on your best selling children’s book, The Paper House.