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Jean
Little
Authors' Booking Service is
pleased to announce that children's author, Jean Little is
now scheduling visits to Ontario schools and libraries.
Jean's ideal presentation day is
three sessions long. Her rate is $350
for one session, $600 for two, $750 for three, or $1100 for four, plus
GST and kilometrage from Guelph, Ontario. She can travel to Toronto,
London, Stratford -- basically a 120k radius of Guelph. She is also
available for areas beyond if several days are booked in a cluster.
Jean Little, the daughter of medical
missionaries, was born in Taiwan
but has been living in Canada since the age of seven. Jean began
writing as a child and has never stopped, in spite of the challenge of
her blindness. Despite limited vision, she attended regular school and
graduated in 1955 from the University of Toronto with an Honours Degree
in English.
Teaching handicapped children until
1962, her first book Mine for Keeps
won the Little Brown Children's Book Award and since then has had over
30 books published, including novels, picture books, autobiography,
poetry and short stories, among them some of Canada’s best-loved works
for children, such as Mama's Going to Buy You
a Mockingbird, Listen for the Singing,
Mine
for Keeps, and Pippin the Christmas Pig.
Her books have been translated into ten languages and have won many
awards including a Canadian Library Association Book of the Year award
(for her Dear Canada title, Orphan At My Door),
the Ruth Schwartz Award, the Canada Council Literature Prize, The Vicky
Metcalf Award and the Boston Globe Horn-Book Honor Book Award. Her
other Dear Canada books include Brothers Far From Home
(2003), If I Die
Before I Wake (2007) and Exiles from the War
(2010). She writes these award-winning titles by using a talking
computer.
Jean Little lives in Guelph, Ontario,
with her sister, great-niece and
great-nephew and a house full of dogs, cats, birds and other pets. In
addition to all the awards and nominations, she has received four
honorary degrees, and has been made a member of the Order of Canada for
her outstanding contribution to Canadian children's literature.
Here's what Marsha Skrypuch, of
Brantford Book Camp has to say about
this author:
"When
Jean was the
keynote speaker at Brantford Book Camp, we had so many parents and
children attend that we ended up extending the event for an extra hour
to accommodate all of the autograph requests. The acoustics in the gym
were terrible, but that didn't matter. The audience was so entranced by
Jean's presentation that the only sound you could hear was her voice. I
have a photo of the audience that day and the universal expression is
one of contented awe."
Published Works
* Mine for Keeps
* Spring Begins in March (Sequel to Mine for Keeps)
* Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
* Different Dragons
* Lost and Found
* From Anna
* Hey World, Here I Am!
* Willow and Twig
* I Know an Old Laddie
* Orphan at My Door
* Brothers Far from Home
* If I Die Before I Wake
* Dancing Through the Snow
* His Banner Over Me
* Look Through My Window
* Kate
* Stand in the wind
* One to Grow On
* What will the Robin do then?
* Listen for the Singing (Sequel to From Anna)
* Little by Little - Her Autobiography
* Stars Come Out Within- The Sequel to her
Autobiography
* Somebody Else's Summer
* Dancing Through The Snow
* Love in Paris
* Orphan at My Door
* Growing Pains
Presentation Details
Jean
is comfortable with a variety of venues and she does not mind large
groups but she prefers students to be within three grades of each
other. Jean's talks can be tailored to your needs. She can talk about a
specific book or about her life as a writer. She is an ideal keynote
speaker.
Setting/equipment
A chair and a glass of water
And, if I am forced to speak in a gym, a
mike that works
I supply my own Seeing Eye dog.
Since I have written for all ages except
older teenagers, I am
willing to speak to all of them. My preference is for the middle
grades, 4, 5 and 6.
I ask for an hour which gives me time to
talk and then answer
questions. I change the speech every time depending on the children,
which books they already know, whether they want most of all to hear
about my guide dog or how I write when I cannot see. I also speak about
the actual work involved in writing.
Although I do not write Young Adult
fiction, I am happy to talk to high school kids about the craft of
writing.
I also speak to conferences of teachers,
librarians, parents or
just people. I have been called a “motivational speaker” and I have
talked to inmates in jails about stuff like making choices.
I am happy speaking to large groups – up
to 200 for instance. I
want the audience to be big enough that I can hear them laughing at my
jokes. Eighty to 100 is probably ideal. If the school wants me to
speak to kindergartners, I talk about the dog and one picture book and
cut the session shorter.
I usually bring books with me which I
autograph for anyone who
buys one. I will NOT sign pieces of paper but I will bring a sheet of
autographed messages like “Keep reading a Little. The best place for
your nose is inside a book. Jean Little” which the teacher can run off
and hand out after I am gone.
I will bring an autographed poster to
give to the school or library.
If at all possible, Jean would appreciate a parking spot close to the
school entrance.
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