The Ontario Library Association has partnered with Authors’ Booking Service to assist nominees with arranging school and library bookings. We are honoured to be helping the following nominees with their visits.

All of the nominees listed below are available for school and library readings. Nominees who are based in Ontario have more flexibility in timing their visits.

Out of province nominees will be clustering their presentations during the days preceding the Festival of Trees on May 11 and 12. Our goal is to get all of the out-of-province nominees enough bookings so that they can afford to come to their own award ceremonies. You can help us with that. Let us know if you would like to host an author visit in early May 2010. Ask us about subsidy possibilities.

To read our most recent newsletter, go here.

Blue Spruce

Lana Button, author of Willow's Whispers. Lives in Burlington.

Tania Howells, illustrator of Willow's Whispers. Lives in Toronto.

Sharon Jennings, author of C'Mere Boy! Lives in Toronto.
 
Andrew Larsen, author of Imaginary Garden. Lives in Toronto.




Silver Birch Express Fiction


Sylvia Olsen, author of A Different Game. Lives in British Columbia.

Lois Peterson, author of The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw. Lives in British Columbia.

Chad Solomon, author of Rabbit & Bear Paws: True Heart. Lives in Toronto.




Silver Birch Express Non-Fiction

Monica Kulling, author of It's A Snap. Lives in Toronto.




Silver Birch Fiction

 
Kate Jaimet, author of Dunces Anonymous. Lives in Ottawa.

Sharon Jennings, author of Home Free. Lives in Toronto.

Art Slade, author of Hunchback Assignments. Lives in Saskatchewan.





Silver Birch non-fiction


Helaine Becker, author of What's the Big Idea? Lives in Toronto.

Jane Drake and Ann Love, authors of Talking Tails. Live in Toronto.

Gillian Richardson, author of Kaboom! Explosives of All Kinds. Lives in BC.

Valerie Wyatt, author of How to Build Your Own Country. Lives in BC.




Red Maple Fiction


Marina Cohen, author of Ghost Ride. Lives in Markham.

Vicki Grant, author of Not Suitable for Family Viewing. Lives in Nova Scotia.

Terry Griggs, author of Nieve. Lives in Stratford.

Barbara Haworth-Attard, author of Haunted. Lives in London.

Y. S. Lee, author of The Agency: A Spy in the House. Lives in Kingston.



Red Maple non-fiction

Kathy Clark, author of Guardian Angel House. Lives in Ottawa.

Kathy Kacer, co-author of Whispers from the Ghetto. Lives in Toronto.

Sharon McKay, co-author of Whispers from the Ghetto. Lives near Burlington.

Marc Ngui, illustrator of Watch This Space. Lives in Cambridge ON.

Beryl Young, author of Charlie: A Home Child's Life in Canada. Lives in BC.



White Pine

Rosemarie Boll, author of The Second Trial. Lives in Alberta.

Don Calame, author of Swim The Fly. Lives in BC.

Natale Ghent, author of Gravity Brings Me Down. Lives in Toronto.

Alyxandra Harvey, author of Hearts at Stake. Lives north of Toronto.

Richard Scarsbrook, author of Monkeyface Chronicles. Lives in Toronto.

Allan Stratton, author of Borderline. Lives in Toronto.

Courtney Summers, author of Some Girls Are. Lives in Belleville.




Golden Oak

Rona Arato, author of Courage and Compassion, Ten Canadians Who Made a Difference. Lives in Toronto.

Marsha Skrypuch, author of Stolen Child. Lives in Brantford.

Christine Welldon, author of The Children of Africville. Lives in Thornhill.