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Rachna Gilmore's Writerly Plarks*: TIPS ON WRITING HISTORICAL FICTION -- PART II
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Rachna Gilmore's Writerly Plarks*. Friday, June 24, 2011. TIPS ON WRITING HISTORICAL FICTION - PART II. More tips on writing historical fiction - with the same caveats as in previous post:. 10) Visit museums that specialize in the era of your story. It’s a great way to flesh out your understanding of that era. It also helps you imbibe the right atmosphere. I went to the Cumberland Museum in Cumberland Ontario. 15) I chose deliberately not to include a map in my book, because P.E.I. is a small...16) The e...
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CanLit for LittleCanadians: The Time Time Stopped
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10045; Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators ✽. December 19, 2011. The Time Time Stopped. If it weren't for the tongue-in-cheek humour, I might have wondered if Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had written a sequel to The Little Prince. Posted by Helen K. The Time Time Stopped. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). CanLit for LittleCanadians: All Blogs. Book Trailers and Other Media. Bookmark CanLit for LittleCanadians! 169; CanLit for LittleCanadians. Tea Time at Annick Press.
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Moonlight Musings: April 2011
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Q&Q Writer Series featuring Rachna Gilmore. Hmmm, wondering what can I say about this latest guest on my blog which will adequately describe her warm, witty, intelligent, talented, fun-loving personality? I give up. I think you better read it in her own words. Here is Rachna Gilmore. Who has written everything from picture books to adult fiction. One of my favourites from her repertoire is A Screaming Kind of Day. The GG award winner in 1999! 2) What is your deepest desire?
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CanLit for LittleCanadians: Here Babies, There Babies
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10045; Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators ✽. May 06, 2015. Here Babies, There Babies. Illustrated by Carmen Mok. Everyone loves babies, and they are everywhere! They’re traveling with moms and dads and various caregivers, everywhere and no where, and sitting and playing and crying and sleeping. Then repeat. It’s a recipe for a fun day of watching babies in all their glorious busyness. 8217;s delightful rhyming text is very simple but not simplistic. Posted by Helen K.
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CanLit for LittleCanadians: We are All Made of Molecules
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10045; Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators ✽. May 11, 2015. We are All Made of Molecules. For release May, 2015. Blending families can be difficult but even more so when each family has a young teen burdened by the issues related to why their original family no longer exists. We Are All Made of Molecules. Ashley’s emphasis on the Social Ladder and everyone’s placement on it,. Is re-assessed courtesy of Stewart and his quality self. Susin Nielsen. Still Stewart shares wi...
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CanLit for LittleCanadians: Forever Julia
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10045; Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators ✽. May 05, 2015. Great Plains Teen Fiction. Maybe if I convince Annika to tone down her wardrobe, Jeremy would see how incredible she really is and then maybe everyone would get along. Sadly naïve, but probably not atypical for a teen who is trying to work everything out. Who is the girl who kisses her boyfriend in public like there's no one else around? Though I suspect she hasn’t come into herself completely, yet. F...Thanks ...
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PROJECTS WE HAVE SUPPORTED - Harambee!Ottawa
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PROJECTS WE HAVE SUPPORTED. How You Can Help. Grandmothers Raising Children Orphaned by AIDS. Between March 2007 and November 2008 we supported a project named "Called From Retirement" in Western Kenya. We raised funds to provide basic food, clothing and hygeine necessities for elderly caregivers of orphaned children in a small village in western Kenya. We provided funds for the purchase of oxen and a plough in this same village, as well as funds to dig a well. In September 2010 Harambee! 61623; Hygiene ...
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Judging From His Tracks: March 2008
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Judging From His Tracks. Judging from his tracks, Boo was about six and a half feet tall, dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch. There was a long, jagged scar that ran across his face. His eyes popped and he drooled most of the time." Jem describing Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. Facts are stubborn things." Tobias Smollett. Thursday, March 27, 2008. The state flower of Arizona. Here is an excellent site on the saguaro cactus. Here is a video. Posted by Dinged Corners. Links to this post.
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CanLit for LittleCanadians: Mad Miss Mimic: Book Launch (Toronto)
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10045; Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators ✽. May 09, 2015. Mad Miss Mimic: Book Launch (Toronto). Will be launching her first book. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. High Park Curling Club. Wear a fancy hat (DIY embellishments encouraged! And participate in a contest (judging at 8:30 pm sharp). To win a free, signed copy of Mad Miss Mimic. Special performance by Cantores Celestes Women's Choir. Book City will have copies on sale. Posted by Helen K. Book Trailers and Other Media.
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CanLit for LittleCanadians: Mad Miss Mimic
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10045; Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators ✽. May 07, 2015. For release May, 2015. 8221; (pg. 21)–in order to procure an engagement for Leonora and finally move her out of Hastings House. Fortunately, her cousin Archie Maverty, a reporter, who knows of her mimicry, rescues her, though more for her benefit than for Thornfax whom he regards as suspicious. But it is Daniel’s work at his surgery, where a young man named Tom Rampling assists him, that makes Leonora...CanLit ...
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