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A Peek at Where I Write
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|Canadian Independent Bookstore Day
“How terribly strange to be seventy”
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|More Books About Women
Books About Women
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|How 7 nudges led me to my new project for the new year
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|Pandemic Connections
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|“The Reader I Was, The Writer I Am”
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|Beyond Orange Shirt Day
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|Do You Love Giraffes?
Summer Reading
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|Today is World Giraffe Day!
Did You Miss the Launch of The Girl Who Loved Giraffes?
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|First the Movie, Then the Book
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|What You Focus On
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|Bare Naked Review
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|The First International IBBY Canada Meeting
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|I Read Canadian
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|A “Bare Naked” Reveal
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|Season’s Greetings
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|Photo Walking
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|Comfort, Hope, and Connection through Children’s Books
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|Dark Spring
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|A Summer for “Goodbye…Hello…”
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|Do you love tulips?
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|Children’s Book Resources During Covid19 and Beyond
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|In the words of the late Jean Little
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|Picture Books about Remarkable Women
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|On Coming Home from the Banff Winter Writers Retreat
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|Dedicated to My Grandson Daniel
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|3 Books, 3 Illustrators, 3 Publishers
Why Zora? Why Walter? Why Ivy? and Other Name Decisions
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|Reading 2019 GG Books
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|Who is The Lady with the Books?
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|The Red Rule of Photography
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|Summer Reading, Reading Aloud
“Are you working on a book right now?”
New Editions
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|KathyStinson.com — 20 Years Already?
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|And the winner is…!
Can your dog fly?
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|Photographers On Photography
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|25 Random Things About Me
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|Why Write for Children?
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|My 23 Favourite Books in 2018
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|Stepping Away, Letting Go
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|5 Highlights of the 2018 IBBY Congress
Who is that dog…? Part 2
Looking Back, Moving On
A Book Recommendation for Kids AND Writers
Who is that dog…?
My Daughter “On Family & Friends”
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|“Let’s Read!”
5 Steps to Writing a Novel
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|A Happy Way to End (Almost) 2017
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|Coming Soon!
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|5 Reasons You Want to Be Invited to the Knowlton Literary Festival
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|Where you'll find me in Autumn 2017
Kathy Goes To Korea – A Slideshow
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|A Successful Retreat and One Happy Writer
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|Solitude – Not Just for Writers
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|What do these books have in common?
Canada 150
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|Announcing . . . The Dance of the Violin!
Standing Ovation for "The Man with the Violin"
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|World Premiere – The Man with the Violin
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|“Creative Vision?” Who Me?
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|My Year in Review
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|The Baby's Stocking
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|O Homem do Violino, Violinist, and Now…
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|Kathy Stinson, As Photographer
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|Books about Kids & Divorce
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|So You Want to Write a Picture Book
Book Cover Reveal
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|More Making Pictures with JoyfullyGreen.com
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|September Weekends
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|A Busy Fall Ahead
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|Storywalk with The Man with the Violin
Summer Time
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|Exciting News for The Man with the Violin
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|First Book Canada
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|When Green Is & Isn’t Best
Why Colour? Why B&W?
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|“When I’m Sixty Four”
Reading & Writing at Fool’s Paradise
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|Happy Birthday to A Great Dog
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|Fool’s Paradise, Here I Come!
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|Editing and Editing
"The Art of the Pattern" — A Photo Assignment
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|FOCUS 2016
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|Are You “Addicted to Distraction”?
Reading Aloud
I Am A Writer, I Am A Photographer
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|Celebrating Excellence in Canadian Children’s Literature
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|A Passion as Strong as Writing? Really?
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|Finding the Light
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|“Green 15”
Summer Reading, Fall Reading…
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|Where do you like to work?
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|5 Songs for a Desert Island
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|A Holiday in Your Honour
Book Groups & Summer Reading
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|One Woman’s Story About Red
How to Write a Picture Book
Write for a Better World – Choosing a Winner
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|Authors Support Indies Day
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|National Volunteer Week
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|Stabbing the Pumpkin
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|How To Write
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|One Lucky Mom, One Lucky Daughter
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|Kids, Get Writing!
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|A Celebration of Poetry
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|“One Word” for the New Year
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|Best Books of the Year
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|Where can I buy your books?
November Beauty
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|How does it feel to have won the TD Children’s Literature Award?
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|Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
A House with No Windows, No Mirrors
Why did Joshua Bell do it again?
Congratulations to my Online Profile Developer!
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|The Man with the Violin Goes to Brazil
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|Writing by the Sea Again
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|“Who should I get to illustrate my manuscript?”
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|A Poem for Parents of Sons
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|One Voice In A Grand Choir
Read by the Sea
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|Another Man with Another Violin
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|10 More Days Till…
A Few of My Favourite Things
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|Pleasant Memories of Book Week
Home Sweet Home
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|TD Children’s Book Week in Alberta
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|One Book, Two Books
“Music Tells A Story”
Welcome Home, Soldiers
Kids Lit Quiz
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|A Summer Place
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|Your Chance to Write by the Sea
Kathy Goes to Washington [slideshow]
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|A Digital Book Award (and more fun) for The Man with the Violin
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|My Pinterest ABC
Losing Weight in the New Year
The Man with the Violin at The Bookshelf
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|Last “Photo of the Month”
Celebrating “The Man with the Violin”
Finding Book Info at KathyStinson.com
Books and Violins and Music in General
Going to the Fish House
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|Across this Country
RED Hair & RED Trimmed Pajamas in a RED Room IS BEST!
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|What does "The Man with the Violin" really care about?
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|“Writing With the Old Ones”
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|Claire Mackay, 1930-2013
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|Plans for Another Kathy Stinson Board Book
Photo of the Month #12
More Books for Liberian Children
Help For Your Picture-Book-Writing Woes
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|Meeting Joshua Bell
What 1 Movie & 2 Short Stories Taught Me About Writing
Whose Point of View?
Introducing: The Man With the Violin
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|Stuff bloggers have said about Me
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|Photo of the Month #11
Thank You, Terry Fallis!
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|Writing Picture Books
Author Interview
Photo of the Month #10
Our 7th Seaside Workshop/Retreat
Writers’ Blogs I Like Reading
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|A Plug for CANSCAIP
“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 14
Review of The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
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|“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 13
Photo of the Month #9
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|CANSCAIP’s 28th & 35th
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|“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 12
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|Congratulations, You’re #10,995!
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|Review of OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide by Chris Seibold; O’Reilly Media
Making the Big Switch
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|“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 11
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|What Happened to Ivy Giveaway
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|Books About Writing
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|“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 10
Photo of the Month #8
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|“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 9
Photo of the Month #7
“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 8
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|Photo of the Month #6
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|Golden Moments at the Golden Oaks Awards
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|“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 7
Photo of the Month #5
Red is Still Best
Hope & the Highway of Heroes
“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 6
Photo of the Month #4
Happy Birthday to Me
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|A Place for Group Creativity and Solitude
“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 5
Photo of the Month #3
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|Cornelia Hahn Oberlander & the Art of the Possible
“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 4
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|Organ Donation & A Grateful Heart
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|Photo of the Month #2
Good News from Africa
“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 3
Le Rouge C’est Bien Mieux
Photo of the Month #1
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|“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 2
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|A Writer's Scribbles
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|Do you get along well with your publishers?
“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 1
Do you ever visit book clubs?
Did you create your own website?
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|Will you come and speak at our conference?
Three Trees for Highway of Heroes
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|Book Lovers Day
Have you met any other authors?
Ontario Library Week
What kind of books did you like to read when you were growing up?
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|Do you speak to teachers on their professional development days?
How can we arrange a visit to our school or library?
Did you like to write when you were a kid?
How do you pick the illustrator for your picture books?
"So You Want to Write a Children’s Book"
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|A Star for Starfall
Do you write full-time now, or do you have another job, too?
Congratulations Again, Cornelia!
Do you have any pets?
How old are you?
How old are your children now?
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Can you help me get published?
Reading Liberia – June 2011
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|Happy Birthday, Cornelia!
Endings & Beginnings
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|“Baby Love”
Is my ship sinking?
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|What do you like writing better? Picture books or novels?
My Dad, Doug Powell
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|The Fallen Canadian Soldier Project
"Lead with your heart"
A National Poetry Month Guessing Game
More Books (and Almost Books) by Seaside Retreat/Workshop Alumni
Why did you want to be a writer?
Jan Coates, An Alumnus of the Seaside Writing Workshop
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|Do you offer writing workshops?
What's your favourite book that you've written?
Where do you get your ideas?
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|The Joy of Cutting Words
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|March Break Fun
A Volunteer-Reader’s Anniversary
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|Word from Liberia
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|Writing Communities
Writing Tip – How to Not Engage a Reader
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|Writing Workshops
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|International Year of the Volunteer
A Well Earned Honour for an Outstanding Canadian
Reading at the CNIB
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|The First "Reading Liberia" Books
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|Revisiting PIRDY a Year Later
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|Book Exchanges
Why I Want You to Care about Bill C-32
A Gift that Really Keeps on Giving
When Our Book Club Meets in December
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|And More Ways to Honour Them
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|Tips for Writers
More Tributes to Canada's Soldiers
Remembrance Day
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|School Vegetable Gardens
The Up Side of Email
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|An Ancient Child by Lynn Davies
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|Multiple Viewpoint Novels
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|Teacher's Guide for Highway of Heroes
The Launch of Highway of Heroes
World Food Day
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|Highway of Heroes – The First Review is In
Writers by the Sea
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|My Latest Book – Highway of Heroes
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|What I Read on My Summer Vacation
International Literacy Day
Summer Reading Excerpt #8
A Potent Argument for Reading Aloud
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|Summer Reading Excerpt #7
Summer Reading Excerpt #6
Summer Reading Excerpt #5
Summer Reading Excerpt #4
Wow, look how long my story is!
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|A Proud Month
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|Summer Reading Excerpt #3
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|Spring Gardens
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|How's the Novel Going?
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|Summer Reading Excerpt #2
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|Organ Donation
Mother's Day
Summer Reading Excerpt #1
The Osborne Collection
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|Happy B-Earth Day to me!
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|“Babysitting Helen”
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|Editing Tips
April is Autism Awareness Month
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|Seaside Writing Retreat & Workshop
A Writing Group to Celebrate
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|More on Kids, Books and Libraries
Gotta Love Your Library!
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|A Writer’s Professional Development
Children's Literature Conference – March 5-6, 2010
Reading Liberia Photos Now Up
The People in my "Neighbourhood"
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|Last Word from Liberia
It's "Wear Red" Day
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|Heroes in Liberia
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|Back in Liberia
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|Another Thing About Reading
Children's Book Suggestions
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|Does Your Writing Life Need A Boost?
The PIRDY Plan
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|Other Holiday Traditions
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|One Dickens of a Messy Manuscript
Christmas Shortbreads
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|Talented Young Writers
Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter
Students All in a Buzz
A GG for Greener Grass
A Book for Every Youngster
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|Coffee Shop Author
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|Inspirational Role Models
The Bite of the Mango
Bringing Robert Frost Home From Newfoundland
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|Touring Newfoundland's West Coast
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|Kathy Stinson as Editor and Mentor
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|A New Honour for “Love Every Leaf” Subject
A Title “of Exceptional Calibre”
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|Another Treasure for My Pocket
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|More On Africa
A Pocket… Goes to Italy
The ABCs of European Travel
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|South Africa
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|Good News for Love Every Leaf
Looking Ahead… And Looking Back
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|A New Year's Approach to Email
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|7 Things You Probably Don't Know About Me
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|Kathy Stinson & Cornelia Oberlander Visit Crofton House
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|Children's Book Week 2008 – A Breakfast Surprise
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|A “Desert Island” Author
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|A Sister Visit
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|Settling In
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|A Word on the Street Surprise
School Visits
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|Reporting from Liberia
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|The Bare Naked Talk
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|Children's Book Week 2008 – A Few Highlights
Come See Me at "Word on the Street"
Summer Reading
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|Six Word Memoir
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|More Honours for Cornelia
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|National Landscape Architecture Month
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|A Treasure for My Pocket
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|I've Got Mail
A Day Can Have A Surprise In It
A Pocket Can Have A Treasure In It
Summer Writing Workshop/Retreat by the Sea
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|A Pocket… unveiled
Progress?
A Not-Typical Day in the Life – December 5
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|My Web Site
Hurray! Another contract!
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|Summer Reading
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|A Busy June
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|Stop the presses!
Meeting a Reader and Writer
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|It’s “Take Your Webmaster to Lunch” Day
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|May is Vision Health Month
Notes on a Work in Progress
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|International Women’s Day
Liberia Lingers
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|Three Things About Reading
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|And speaking of lists…
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|All My Bags AREN'T Packed
I Want To Go Back to Liberia!
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|Last Posting from Monrovia
Off to Liberia!
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|TPL’s First and Best!
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|What is it about me and titles?
I've made it!
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|A Peek at Where I Write
All around me in the room where I write are things that act as symbols for much that keeps me going when the writing gets tough: who owned my desk before me; writer-friends; illustrators whose art has perfectly extended the stories I’ve written; the determined minds and open hearts of writers and artists who’ve participated…
Read MoreCanadian Independent Bookstore Day
Saturday, April 30 is your chance to celebrate heroes of the Canadian book business, Canada’s independent sellers. Read my take on why they deserve celebrating, and I’ll then tell you what they’re doing to celebrate you, their customers. My friend says, “Books are cheaper somewhere else.” But when people buy cheaper, author royalties are correspondingly…
Read More“How terribly strange to be seventy”
… as Paul Simon wrote in the lyrics of “Old Friends” while still in his twenties. My birthday is this month. Friends older than I am smile or even laugh when I say how strange it feels to be on the brink of seventy. “You’re so young,” one said to me recently. I suppose in…
Read MoreMore Books About Women
This International Women’s Day post picks up from last month’s post left off, and offers my reaction to a few books by women—fiction and non-fiction—that I’ve rated highly on goodreads so far this year. Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Amazing Journey to Becoming a Novelist by Donna Morrissey As a longtime…
Read MoreBooks About Women
When I delivered the 33rd Helen Stubbs Memorial Lecture in the fall of 2021, one of my themes was women. I started it with a reading from Saturday Walk, a book I’d read as a child, back in the 1950s. It’s about a young boy walking with his dad observing all the men at work…
Read MoreHow 7 nudges led me to my new project for the new year
A number of things late this year have been nudging me in a new direction for my writing. It started in November when I decided to go through a file called “Scribblings” to see just what I’d stuffed in there over the years. “Scribblings” contained notebooks and loose pages; writing exercises I’d done with various…
Read MorePandemic Connections
What do these books have in common? 1. Both were signed to me personally and mailed to me from the US by their authors. 2. I value both books highly, and even moreso the connections I’ve made with their authors, whom I have never met. This would not be the case, were it not for…
Read More“The Reader I Was, The Writer I Am”
How could I say no? It was an honour to be asked, back in February 2019, if I would “consider speaking at the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books in Toronto” as the 33rd annual Helen E. Stubbs memorial lecturer in the fall of 2020. “This lecture series,” Martha Scott wrote, “is held in the…
Read MoreBeyond Orange Shirt Day
Like many Canadians, I’m horrified and saddened by stories that continue to come out about the mistreatment, past and present day, of Indigenous people in this country. So I’m pleased to know that starting tomorrow, we will be honouring the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities with a National Day…
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