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Karen
Patkau
Authors’ Booking Service is pleased to announce that children’s author
and illustrator, Karen Patkau,
is now scheduling visits to Ontario schools for the coming school
year.
Karen is available in the GTA and outside Toronto up to 150
kilometres. Contact us to inquire about specific dates
and locations.
Karen would love to plan a visit to your school or library. Her
rate per session is $250 plus GST and travel expenses from Toronto.
Karen is the award-winning author and illustrator of many books for
children. The first book she illustrated was Don’t Eat Spiders
by Robert Heidbreder, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal.
Other prizes include Our Choice Awards for Creatures Great and
Small, Sir
Cassie to the Rescue, Python Play and Ringtail, and
Dimensional Illustrators Award for In the Sea. A
selected bibliography and details of her presentation follow this
message.
Here’s what teacher Margarite MacDonald of Perth Avenue Public School
has to say:
“Karen Patkau’s
reading and presentation was one of the very best, a highlight of the
year. Our students were captivated as Karen shared how she generated
and researched ideas, for the writing and illustrating of her
fascinating “Creatures” books. Her enthusiastic and calm manner has
inspired students to take greater risks in their own writing and
artwork. A visit with Karen Patkau is a great way to promote literacy
in your school.”
Karen 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. Contact us for details of this program.
Time slots are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis, so please
respond early if you are interested in booking Karen Patkau.
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Published
Works: Karen Patkau
recent
Picture Books
One
Watermelon Seed, by Celia Barker Lottridge, Fitzhenry &
Whiteside, 2008
Creatures
Yesterday and Today, Tundra Books, 2008
Creatures
Great and Small, Tundra Books, 2006
Sir
Cassie to the Rescue, by Linda Smith, Orca Book Publishers, 2003
Awards and
Nominations
One
Watermelon Seed
• Bank Street Books Best Children's Books of
the Year
• Toronto Public Library’s “First & Best Booklist 2008”
• Toronto Public Library's "Top Ten Books for Pre-Schoolers"
Creatures
Great and Small
• Shining Willow Nominee 2008
• Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice 2007”
• Resource Links “Best of the Year 2006”
Sir
Cassie to the Rescue
• Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice 2004” Award
• Resource Links “Best of the Year 2004”
Don’t
Eat Spiders
• Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal - UNICEF / USSBY, 1986
Karen
Patkau’s Presentation Details
Depending on requests and criteria:
I will read and talk about my nonfiction picture books Creatures Great &
Small and Creatures Yesterday
& Today
OR
I will read a selection of picture books, including Sir Cassie to the
Rescue by Linda Smith and my newly illustrated edition of One Watermelon Seed
by Celia Barker Lottridge.
Samples of my artwork-in-progress will illustrate presentations.
When suitable, I will discuss “How a Picture Book is Made” and/or do a
simple drawing activity.
Questions and comments from the audience are encouraged.
At the end of each session, I give out “Creatures” colouring sheets or
ask skill-testing questions in exchange for autographed “Sir Cassie to
the Rescue” posters.
I will present to grades K to 8.
Maximum number of students per session is 60. A few extra
students are welcomed.
I am comfortable in a classroom or library.
I require a display table and two chairs.
I also offer:
Professional Development Workshops
“How a Picture Book is Made” Workshop for grades 7 and 8
I offer Professional Development Workshops on: Curriculum Based
Learning through Visual Art – fulfill expectations of the Arts
Curriculum with projects linked to Language, Social Studies, Science or
Math Curriculum.
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