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Tim Beiser











Authors’  Booking Service is pleased to announce that Toronto children’s author Tim Beiser, is now scheduling visits to Ontario schools for the coming school year.   

This author can arrange his schedule to appear any weekday.   

Tim would love to plan a visit to your school or library.  His rate is $250 per session. There is no travel charge within the GTA. For travel outside the GTA the standard kilometrage applies.

Tim is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada, and so schools wishing to invite him may be eligible for a travel and fee subsidy to offset the cost of his visit. Contact us for details of this program. 

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Published Works:

Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog,  Tundra Press  2009 
The Politics of Bones, McClelland & Stewart, 2005 (under the name J. Timothy Hunt)

Awards and Nominations

For Bradley McGogg:

      Governor General’s Award Nomination, 2009 (Children’s Fiction – Illustration)

      Blue Spruce Fiction Nomination, 2009 

For Politics of Bones:

      Globe and Mail 100 Best Books of the Year, 2005

      Canada Council for the Arts Creative Writing Grant 

For Magazine Journalism:

      Four Canadian National Magazine Awards

      James H. Carter Award

      Mark Bastien Award

      AJEMC Award (silver)

      Gordon Sinclair Award

      Chinese Community Award

      Women’s Press Club of Toronto Award 
 

Tim’s Presentation Details:

My presentations are often extemporaneous, based on the time allowed, the size of the audience, and the venue – and they’re always fun.

Here’s an example of a 45 minute “cabaret” show I recently performed for an audience of pre-schoolers:

  • I started by talking with the children about frogs and asking them what sort of things they think frogs enjoy eating. Many silly possibilities were explored.
  • I read Bradley McGogg the Very Fine Frog aloud while showing enlargements of the illustrations.
  • I segued into a song I wrote (crafted from several funny stanzas that were deleted from the book with music by CBC radio producer David Carroll).  I sing fairly well.
  • Then I donned a big chef’s hat and got volunteers from the audience to help me perform a mock Food Network cooking show for frogs. Two volunteers got child-sized chef hats and one volunteer got a frog costume. With a blender and a box full of yucky ingredients like pond scum (vanilla yogurt tinted green), slugs (thawed frozen bananas), beetle bellies (chocolate covered raisins), and cocoons (yogurt covered raisins), we made “7 Bug Smoothie” then I dared children from the audience to taste it.

I would certainly be interested in creating other kinds of entertaining presentations to fit the specific audience size, venue size, or time limit desired.

Grades I will present to: Nursery to Grade 2  

Is this flexible? Yes, but any students beyond Grade 3 might simply find it too ironic.

Number of students per session: 20-50  

Is this flexible? Yes, I will consider a larger group. Please discuss this with me.   

Venues I am comfortable in:  (classroom, library, auditorium, gymnasium)

I am comfortable in all settings.   

Equipment and other requirements:  

  • An amplified sound system (microphone for me) if the venue is a gymnasium or auditorium.
  • A Power socket with multiple plug points (for the blender if I’m doing a cooking show)
  • A desk-sized table