Authors' Booking Service is pleased to announce that author Deborah Ellis is now booking presentations with us through the Forest of Reading program.

Deborah Ellis is the internationally acclaimed author of a number of award-winning titles for children, including the Breadwinner trilogy, No Ordinary Day, and True Blue. A peace activist and humanitarian field worker, Deborah has traveled the world to meet with and hear the stories of children marginalized by poverty, war, and illness.

Deborah's rate is $250 per session plus HST. Generally, she covers her own travel costs. If she has to go far, she’ll need the cost of a cheap motel.

Here's what Deborah has to say about her presentations:

The world is an ever-changing place, and we humans, through our choices, determine whether those changes will be positive or negative. The presentations explore the impact of big and small choices on the world around us and look at how we can learn to make better choices. There is a focus on social justice and on bringing a global perspective to our daily lives. My books take place in a wide variety of places – Afghanistan, the Middle East, southern Africa, Bolivia, Europe and North America – so I talk about the folks I’ve met, what their lives are like and what I’ve learned from them.

I can also do workshops with students who are interested in writing.

I am also looking for input from students for a new book that’s in the works. The working title is Adults Behaving Badly, looking at the ways the bad behaviour of adults affects kids and what kids can do about it.

Deborah is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada, and so schools wishing to invite her may be eligible for a travel and fee subsidy to off-set the cost of her visit. For details of this program, please contact us.

Time slots are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis, so please contact us early if you are interested in booking Deborah Ellis.

  

Published Works

Novels

Looking for X

The Breadwinner Trilogy

A Company of Fools

The Heaven Shop

Jackal in the Garden

4 Keeley books in the Our Canadian Girl series

I Am A Taxi

Sacred Leaf

Jakeman

Bifocal (with Eric Walters)

No Safe Place

Lunch With Lenin (short stories)

True Blue

No Ordinary Day

Non-Fiction (books of interviews)

Three Wishes (children of Israel and Palestine)

Our Stories, Our Songs (children affected by AIDS in southern Africa)

Off To War (children of military families)

Children of War (children of the Iraq war)

We Want You To Know (Canadian children talk about bullying)

Children of Kabul (spring of 2012)

 

 

Selected Awards

Deborah is the recipient of the Governor General’s Award, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award for a body of work, an ALA Notable, and the Children’s Africana Book Award Honor Book for Older Readers.

In 2006 Deborah was named to the Order of Ontario, and in 2010, she recieved the OLA President's Award for Exceptional Achievement.

Considered one of the most popular YA writers today, Deborah Ellis is also a philanthropist, donating almost all of her royalties on her books to such causes as "Women for Women in Afghanistan" and UNICEF.

Presentation Details

My presentations are geared to age and I will present to grades 3 and up.

I will present to: any number – pack ‘em in

Any venue – have done schools, libraries, prisons, treatment centres, battered women’s shelters, churches, synagogues

I require - a glass of tap water and a microphone if we’re in a gym

Geographical area – open, prefer west of Toronto