The Oshawa Public Libraries Festival is running during the month of November. In this this time four branches if the library will host visits by Canadian children’s authors as students celebrate the written word. To celebrate the launch, comedian and children’s author Sean Cullen addressed the adults gathered at the McLaughlin branch. He said he reads everything, adding the first book he read that influenced him was JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Cullen makes his appearance at ... read more
Posted: November 7th, 2008 by Lee | No Comments | Filed under J.R.R. Tolkien, KV Johansen
The Storyteller and other tales by KV Johansen is a collection for adults and older teens that will take you on a journey through exotic worlds and times. Demon bears take human shape and devils walk in the north of a world where every hill hosts a god and every river and spring a goddess. The storyteller Moth draws Ulfleif, a warrior-princess who would rather carry a lyre than a sword, into an unfinished tale, and old lays of vengeance and betrayal wake into bloody new life around her. A ... read more
Posted: August 17th, 2008 by Lee | No Comments | Filed under KV Johansen
KV Johansen will be part of TD Canadian Children’s Book Week 2008 that will be touring Quebec from November the 15th until the 22nd. A national not-for-profit organization and registered charity, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) was founded in 1976 to promote, support and encourage the reading, writing and illustrating of Canadian books for children and teens. For more information on KV Johansen and the tour follow this link - http://www.bookweek.ca/KVJohansen.htm KV ... read more
Posted: July 27th, 2008 by Lee | No Comments | Filed under KV Johansen