The Book Week tour participants will travel to the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador, across the Prairies, through the mountains of British Columbia and up to the very tips of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. They will visit schools, libraries, community centres and bookstores in every province and territory and speak to their audiences about the pleasures of reading, writing and illustrating books for children and teens.
If you are interested in hosting an author, illustrator or storyteller during Book Week, please fill in the online application form and the Book Week Coordinator in your region will contact you in March 2017 if they are able to provide you with a reading.
Alberta
Joyce Grant, author
John Martz, author/illustrator
British Columbia
Interior
Geneviève Côté, author/illustrator
Lower Mainland
Mahtab Narsimhan, author
Vancouver Island
Charis Cotter, author
Northern Region
Melanie Florence, author
Manitoba
Marianne Dubuc, author/illustrator
Beth Goobie, author
New Brunswick
Linda Granfield, author
Newfoundland
Josée Bisaillon, illustrator
Labrador
Mireille Messier, author
Northwest Territories
Natasha Deen, author
Nova Scotia
Kathleen Kompass, storyteller
Nunavut
Joan Marie Galat, author
Ontario
Mike Boldt, author/illustrator
Jason Chabot, author
Karen Gummo, storyteller
Kate Inglis, author
Diane Carmel Leger, author
Stacey Matson, author
Gabrielle Prendergast, author
Prince Edward Island
Caroll Simpson, author/illustrator
Quebec
(English-language tour)
Norm Perrin, storyteller
Kathyrn Shoemaker, author/illustrator
Judith Silverthorne, author
Ted Staunton, author
Kari-Lynn Winters, author
Saskatchewan
Northern Region
Alan Cumyn, author
Southern Region
Erin Bow, author
Yukon
Emil Sher, author