Authors’ Booking Service is pleased to announce that young adult author, Shane Peacock, is now scheduling visits to Ontario schools for the coming school year.   
 
Shane would love to plan a visit to your school or library. His rate is $350 for a single session, $650 for two sessions, $900 for three sessions and $1100 for four sessions. His only other expenses are HST and travel from Baltimore, ON (approx 100k east of Toronto). 
 
Shane is the author of the hot new The Boy Sherlock Holmes series as well as the Dylan Maples Adventures. He is also a playwright, documentary screenwriter, and journalist.  
 
 
Shane Peacock's Eye of the Crow: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case, was the winner of the 2008 IODE Violet Downey Award for best children’s novel in Canada in the English language, the Arthur Ellis Award winner for best YA crime fiction in Canada, and the Honour Book for both the Canadian Library Association’s Children’s Book of the Year and the Young Adult Book of the Year. This goes with the book's inclusion on the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award shortlist, selection as a Junior Library Guild of America Premier award, Moonbeam Gold Medal Award, nominations on every Forest of Reading shortlist in Canada, and starred reviews in Booklist, The School Library Journal, CM Magazine, and Quill & Quire. The novel has appeared in translation in European countries as well. The sequel in the series, Death in the Air: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Second Case, was also a Junior Library Guild of America Premier Selection, a TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award nominee, a Violet Downey nominee, and a Silver Birch nominee. Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Third Case, also a Junior Library Guild of America selection, appeared in October 2009 It won the IODE Violet Downey Award, the Libris Award, and the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award, as was shortlisted for many others. The Secret Fiend: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Fourth Case was published in 2010 and became the fourth Boy Sherlock book in a row to be a Junior Library Guild of America Premier Selection. It tells the story of the apparent re-appearance of a vicious, legendary criminal named The Spring Heeled Jack, thought by many to be fictional. Sherlock discovers it may be real! The Dragon Turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Fifth Case is the latest in the series. In it, a London magician creates a sensation by making a real dragon appear on stage, but is then accused of murdering his great rival. Sherlock gets caught between them … and the dragon.

The Boy Sherlock Holmes novels are also being published internationally in many different languages, in such countries as the United States, France, Italy, Indonesia, Spain, China, and Slovenia.  
  
Here’s what school Librarian Pam Adair of Oshawa had to say about this author:   
  
“I’m sure Shane hears this all the time after his visits but our students could hardly wait to get their hands on our copies of his books! Wow! It is wonderful to see them so enthused. Both students and teachers have had many favorable comments about his visit.”  
  
Shane is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada, and so schools wishing to invite him may be eligible for a travel and fee subsidy to off-set the cost of his visit. For details of this program, please contact us.   
  

  
Young Adult Novels:

The Dragon Turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Fifth Case, 2011
The Secret Fiend: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Fourth Case, 2010
Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Third Case, 2009 
Death in the Air: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Second Case, 2008 
Eye of the Crow: the Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case, 2007 
Monster in the Mountains, A Dylan Maples Adventure. 2003 
Bone Beds of the Badlands, A Dylan Maples Adventure. 2001 
The Secret of the Silver Mines, A Dylan Maples Adventure. 2000 
The Mystery of Ireland’s Eye, A Dylan Maples Adventure. 1999 

 
Young Adult Non-Fiction: 

Unusual Heroes: Canada’s Prime Ministers and Fathers of Confederation. 2002 

Adult Non-Fiction:  
The Great Farini: The High-Wire Life of William Hunt. 1995  

 

  
Eye of the Crow: the Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case 

Winner, IODE Violet Downey Award, 2008

Winner, Arthur Ellis Award for Best YA Crime Fiction, 2008

Winner, Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, Gold Medal, 2008

Winner, Foreword Magazine YA Fiction Book of the Year, Gold Medal, 2008

Canadian Library Association Children’s Book of the Year, Honour Book, 2008

Canadian Library Association YA Book of the Year, Honour Book, 2008

American Library Association Top Ten Youth Mystery, 2008

Junior Library Guild of America Premier Selection, 2007

TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, shortlist, 2008

Silver Birch Honour Book, 2009

Red Cedar Award, shortlist, 2009

Geoffrey Bilson Historical Fiction Award, shortlist, 2008

Nautilus Award, Silver Winner, 2008

Manitoba Young Readers Choice, shortlist, 2008

Snow Willow Award, shortlist, 2009

Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award, shortlist, 2009

Rocky Mountain Award, shortlist, 2009

Tri-State Young Adult Fiction Book, Book of Note, 2008

Ontario Library Association Top Ten, 2008  

A Quill & Quire Magazine book of the year, 2007

Death in the Air: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Second Case

Junior Library Guild of America Premier Selection, 2008

TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, shortlist, 2009

Canadian Library Association’s Children’s Book of the Year, shortlist, 2009

IODE Violet Downey Award, shortlist, 2009

Silver Birch Award, shortlist, 2010

Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award, shortlist, 2010

A Mystery New Book of the Year, 2008

Ontario Library Association Best Bets, 2008

Resources Links Best Books for 2008, Fiction, grades 7-12  
 

Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Third Case

Winner, IODE Violent Downey Award, 2010

Winner, Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2010

Winner, Libris Award, Canadian Booksellers Association, 2010

Junior Library Guild of America Premier Selection, 2009

Canadian Library Association Children’s Honour Book, 2010

Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year, Shortlist, 2010

Geoffrey Bilson Award for YA Historical Fiction, Shortlist, 2010

Manitoba Young Readers’  Choice Award, Shortlist, 2010

Ontario Library Association Best Bets for 2009

Canadian Living Magazine Editor’s Pick of the Month, 2009

CBC Radio Children’s Book Panel Choice, 2009

The Secret Fiend: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Fourth Case

Junior Library Guild of America Premier Selection, 2010

Canadian Library Association Children’s Honour Book of the Year, 2010

Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Best Books, 2011

Ontario Library Association, Top Ten Children’s Books, 2010

The Mystery of Ireland’s Eye, A Dylan Maples Adventure: 

- Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award, shortlist, 2001 

- Rocky Mountain Award, shortlist, 2001 

- CNIB Torgi Talking Book Award, shortlist, 2001

- Arthur Ellis Award, shortlist, 2000  

- Red Maple Award, shortlist, 2000  
 
Bone Beds of the Badlands, A Dylan Maples Adventure: 

- Red Maple Award, shortlist, 2002 

- Arthur Ellis Award, shortlist, 2002

The Secret of the Silver Mines, A Dylan Maples Adventure: 

- Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Select Choice, 2000

Unusual Heroes: Canada’s Prime Ministers: 

- Ontario Library Association, Best Bet for 2002, Non Fiction 

Shane offers an upbeat presentation about why he thinks reading and writing are the most exciting things a kid can do. It appeals to all ages and genders within his audience, though teachers often comment that it has a particularly positive effect on boys and reluctant readers. He discusses why it took him a while to get interested in reading as a kid, how he became a writer, and the wild and crazy things he has written about. He shows students how to tell stories by telling a few dramatic ones – a favorite is his account of The Great Farini’s high-wire duel with Blondin over Niagara Falls, first told in his biography of the inimitable Farini. He also describes how he conceived and wrote his best-selling, award-nominated series “The Boy Sherlock Holmes,” tells a little about them, reveals a few secrets of his trade, and delivers a short, dramatic reading from one of his books. Students are encouraged to interact.   
  
Sometimes Shane gives lessons on how to walk high wires and sumo wrestle, shows a short segment from a documentary he wrote, in which the world’s greatest high wire walker crosses above a river with no net, filming the walk as he goes, or plays exciting trailers from his Boy Sherlock Holmes series.
  
Specifics Overview from Shane:

I will present to grades 4 to 12

I will present to grade 3s as well, in a pinch.  

Maximum number of students per session: 100

I’ve spoken to as many as 300 at schools and if consulted ahead of time and satisfied with the venue, would always at least consider presenting to such large numbers.

I offer Skype presentations.  

I offer workshops for grades 4 - 12

Maximum participants for workshop: 20 or 30  

I also offer...

Grade 12 Writers' Craft Workshops  

Venue preferences:  Libraries are by far the best followed by classrooms. Some auditoriums have theatre-like areas – obviously they would be fine.  I will and
 do speak in auditoriums and gyms, but like to know ahead of time of such a choice of venue and only speak there if libraries aren’t available.  

I require a TV with VCR/DVD capability, and a table to display my books.