Available for virtual visits in : Alberta, Newfoundland & Labrador, Ontario
Home Province: Manitoba
Craft: Author
Genre: Middle-grade Fiction/Teen Fiction
Target Audience: Ages 8+ / Grades 3 – 12
Cost for School and Public Virtual Presentation with CCBC subsidy: $200.00
Website: www.anitadaher.com
Virtual Presentation Information
- PEANUT BUTTER AND CHAOS
The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton, Book One
Discussion, slides, film, book giveaway
Target Audience: Ages 8 to 12 // Grades 3 to 6
When twelve-year-old Sam is struck by a bolt of lightning out of a clear blue sky, he suddenly sees everything in pixels. His life is further upended by Flum, a non-binary being from a parallel world, a missing neighbour, and astonishing powers that may not last long. Science and magic collide as Sam races to solve a mystery and help Flum return home. But what happens when solving one mystery sparks another?
- Introduction and “about the book”
- Discussion and slide presentation:
- Inspiration, fact to fiction
- Personal pronouns
- “Magic or Science?” activity
- Cool weather facts
- Icelandic myths.
- Multi-media (short film in pre-production as of Nov 2021)
- Reading
- Q & A
- Book draw
“Anita Held the audience spellbound.” – Lögberg-Heimskringla (Forgetting How to Breathe presentation)
- YOU DON’T HAVE TO DIE IN THE END
Finalist: 2021 White Pine award, 2021 Manitoba Book Award
Discussion, slides, film, book giveaway
Target Audience: Ages 12+ // Grades 8 to 12
Eugenia Grimm is a tough girl living in a tough town at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. She drinks and fights and pushes against expectations. She is also hurting: after her father died by suicide, her older brothers drifted away and her mother up and left. After a last-straw violent incident and faced with the possibility of incarceration, she is sentenced to time at an Intensive Support and Supervision Program located at a remote mountain ranch. There, she begins to make connections, explore difficult truths, and might even turn things around—until a series of events pull her into a dark spiral she may not have the strength to resist.
- Introduction and “about the book”
- Discussion and slide presentation:
- Author process/inspiration
- How to approach difficult subject matter
- Multi-media: short film
- Reading
- Compare and contrast activity, novel vs film
- Q & A
- Book draw
“A provocative and compelling story that will leave you both emotionally raw, and satisfied.” — Eric Walters, author of Walking Home, The Rule of Three, Don’t Stand So Close to Me, etc.
Book List
Peanut Butter and Chaos (The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton Book One), Great Plains Publications, Winnipeg, 2022
You Don’t Have to Die in the End, Great Plains Publications, Winnipeg, 2020
Forgetting How to Breathe, Great Plains Publications, Winnipeg, 2018
Wonder Horse, Rebelight Publishing, Winnipeg, 2015
The Hustle, (audio book) Stabenfeldt International, Norway, 2014
Billeh the Kid, Stabenfeldt International, Norway, 2014
Itty Bitty Bits, Peanut Butter Press, Winnipeg, 2013
Wonder Horse, Stabenfeldt International, Norway, 2013
The Wilderness Cure, (audio book) Stabenfeldt International, Norway, 2012
On the Trail of the Bushman, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC, April 2009.
Poachers in the Pingos, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC, September, 2008
Two Foot Punch, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC, Nov. 2007
Spider’s Song, Penguin Canada, Toronto, ON, April 2007
Racing for Diamonds, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC, March 2007
Flight from Bear Canyon, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC, September 2004
Flight from Big Tangle, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC, September 2003