Authors' Booking Service is pleased to announce that French children’s book author Mireille Messier is now accepting requests for school visits in the Greater Toronto Area. She would be delighted to come to your school or library to meet young readers from junior kindergarten to grade 8. Mireille can present in French, English or both.  Her rate is of $250 (+HST) per session (min. 2 /max. 5 sessions per day). Please book early as Mireille’s schedule fills up fast! 
Mireille Messier is a Montreal-born, Ottawa-raised and now Toronto-based writer.

Most of Mireille’s books are published in French and range in genre – from picture books, to short novels and non-fiction. She also writes for various children’s magazines (Owl, Yes, Know, Les débrouillards) and youth television shows (MégaTFO, Kids CBC).  

Mireille Messier is a professional member of l’Association des auteurs de l’Ontario Français (AAOF), which offers a program to financially assist French and immersion schools in arranging author visits.  For details of this program, please contact us.

Mireille is also 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.

Published Works 

Picture Books

Fatima et les voleurs de clémentines Éditions de la Bagnole, 2011

Chapeau Charlotte! Éditions de la Bagnole, 2010

Quel fouillis!, ERPI, 2009

Night Flight, Scholastic, 2009 (English version of LUCA)

LUCA : Pirate-chevalier-archéologue-joueur de hockey, Schoalstic, 2008

Une Charlotte au chocolat, Éditions de la Bagnole, 2008

Junior Novels

Coup de théâtre à Stratford, Éditions du Vermillon, 2010

Coupe et soucoupe à Sudbury, Éditions du Vermillon, 2006

Déclic à Toronto, Éditions du Vermillon, 2004

Une Twiga à Ottawa, Éditions du Vermillon, 2003 

Senior Novels (Hi-Lo Readers)

Le gardien du secret, CFORP, 2011

Tous les oeufs dans le même panier, CFORP, 2007

Non-Fiction

Mes carnets aux questions : La Lune, Québec Amérique, 2005

Mon album des découvertes et inventions, Québec Amérique, 2004

Mon album du corps humain, Québec Amérique, 2004

Competition: Deal With it From Start to Finish, Lorimer, 2004

Awards and Nominations

Tamarack Shortlist, 2010 for Tous les oeufs dans le même panier

Presentation Details

Grades JK – SK: Mireille will present herself and familiarize the children with the vocabulary used in her book Quel fouillis! with a fun tool-related activity. She will then read her picture book. If time permits this is followed by a Q&A period.

Grades 1 – 3: Mireille introduces herself and her books. She gives a quick overview of the different types of writing she does. She then reads from one of her picture books in her special giant book or with Charlotte, a puppet version of her picture book character. If time permits, this is followed by a Q&A period.

Grades 4-8: Mireille introduces herself and her books. She gives an overview of the different types of writing she does and familiarizes the participants with the terminology surrounding book genres and various book-related careers in both French and English. She reads an excerpt from her novel Déclic à Toronto and then leads an interactive oral workshop about different techniques to find original story ideas prompted by photographs and objects. This is followed by a Q&A period. Students are asked to prepare a pertinent question for the Q&A. 

Grades I will present to: JK to 8

Maximum number of students: 60

Venues requested: classroom or library (no gymnasium)

Equipment required: blackboard or flip chart sheets, a table, a chair. For large groups a projector screen and extension cord may be required.