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Liberia Lingers
…this month have submitted manuscripts, hoping for publication with Reading Liberia. I wonder how many essays were submitted for the Heroes anthology by the deadline they decided to set while…
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Reading Liberia – June 2011
…Liberia. She is a prolific writer currently revising a manuscript, in hopes of publication with Reading Liberia one day. It’s about two kids from different tribes struggling to convince their…
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Word from Liberia
…of the Reading Liberia program have now arrived in Monrovia! Yvonne, one of the founders of the program, wrote: Hello Kathy, Guess what! We have received the first four titles…
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The First "Reading Liberia" Books
…their lives and for the writers and illustrators who created them! I first became involved in “Reading Liberia” two years ago, and I’m proud to have been part of a…
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I Want To Go Back to Liberia!
We did so much during the workshop hours, and yet there’s so much more that we didn’t do. I read a few responses to writing exercises while there, and more…
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Looking Ahead… And Looking Back
…the Liberian people: I grew up in Canada at a time before a body of children’s literature was established here, so I appreciate the importance of what the Reading Liberia…
Read More...Reading Liberia Pictures
Come visit my “Reading Liberia” photo album!…
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Off to Liberia!
Hard to believe that a week from now I will be meeting with writers in Monrovia! Sponsored by CODE, “Reading Liberia” is a program through which books written by Liberian…
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The People in my "Neighbourhood"
…last week. Mike Weah (with the help of his wife Yvonne and others) runs the We-Care Library in Monrovia. He is the dynamic mastermind behind the Reading Liberia program that…
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Good News from Africa
…of Liberian stories being published as part of the Reading Liberia program, referred to in last week’s post. A publisher in Ghana is working with the We Care Foundation in…
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School Visits
…result of the new strategies he’d learned at two previous Reading Liberia workshops, in part because the students were sufficiently involved in lessons that he no longer had to use…
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“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 3
…working with, in Liberia, since 2009, as a volunteer with a program called Reading Liberia. Certainly when I sat at my dining room table in 1981, writing what would become…
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A Peek at Where I Write
…to this book, and subsequent one featuring violinist Joshua Bell. What a joy, later, to stand proudly with Dušan when our book received the TD Children’s Literature Award. Reading Liberia…
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More Books for Liberian Children
…book Liberian children would love to learn to read for themselves. (That’s the point of the Reading Liberia program I became involved with in 2008. CODE has since helped expand…
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It's "Wear Red" Day
…as part of the Reading Liberia team. In the meantime, my brilliant support team at Organized Assistant has kept track of and uploaded this posting for me. Actually, although I…
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What I Read on My Summer Vacation
…including those submitted for Reading Liberia, for our Nova Scotia writing workshop/retreat, and Brian Doyle‘s as yet unpublished memoir about his adventures and misadventures in education. That’s just a sampling…
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
…of the Reading Liberia program a few years ago, who are themselves working to raise awareness of how to stop the spread of ebola and distributing books to kids while…
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…Crossroads Gage Educational and At Work: us H. Aschehoug & Co. “Baby Love” in Reality Imagined McGraw-Hill Ryerson “Reading Liberia” in Truth Perceived McGraw-Hill Ryerson Journals “Cream Soda” in Grain…
Read More...Last Posting from Monrovia
…correct). Ingrid Ermanovics, Program Director for Reading Liberia, has kindly been sharing her computer with me this week, but internet access is often painfully slow, so that’s been a factor…
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"Lead with your heart"
…Reading Liberia a few years ago. It’s what produces a sense of compassion toward someone who might otherwise inspire impatience or irritation. I would probably do well to ‘lead with…
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