Author’s Booking Service is please to announce that children’s author and storyteller, Anna Kerz, is now scheduling visits to Ontario schools for the coming school year.

A retired teacher and a veteran storyteller, Anna specializes in teaching children how to write and tell their own stories.

Her rate is $250 per session with standard travel charges outside the GTA.

Anna is a member of The Writer’s Union of Canada. Schools wishing to invite her may be eligible for travel and fee subsidy to offset the cost of her visit. Contact us for details of this.

Published Works

Better Than Weird Orca Books 2011

The Gnome’s Eye Orca Books 2010

The Mealworm Diaries    Orca Books 2009

Awards and Nominations

Better Than Weird

2011 Silver Birch Award nominee

The Gnome’s Eye

2011  CCBC Best Books
2011  Hackmatack Children's Choice Award nominee
2010  PSLA Top Forty

2011 Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year

(Historical Fiction)

The Mealworm Diaries:

2012 Rocky Mountain Book Award nominee
2010  Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year [starred]
2010  CCBC Best Books
2010  Hackmatack Children's Choice Award nominee
2010  Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award nominee
2010  Silver Birch Award nominee
2010  SYRCA Diamond Willow Award nominee
2009  OLA Best Bets
2009  Resource Links "The Year's Best"

Presentations

Large group presentations:

My goal is to provide presentations that inform, entertain, engage and motivate students to view storytelling and writing as a way to explore their world, and celebrate their own experiences in it. I am quite comfortable working with sizeable groups.

Workshops: for smaller groups of students in grades 3-8. 

Topics:

Nothing ever happens to me - Writing what you know
Characters to remember – how to create interesting characters
Who talks like that anyway? – writing dialogue
How was that again? - Retelling a story from a different point of view.

Presentation notes:

I present to grades 3 – 8, but can adapt my presentation to other grades.  
  

I am comfortable in a library, classroom, or auditorium.

Requirements: a microphone in large group settings