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Valerie
Wyatt
2011 Silver Birch non-fiction nominee
Authors' Booking Service
is pleased to announce that children's author Valerie Wyatt's May 2011 schedule is now full.
Valerie
is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada; schools wishing to
invite her may be eligible for a travel and fee subsidy to offset the
cost of her visit. Contact us for details of this program.
Valerie
Wyatt is and award-winning children’s book editor and the author of 14
nonfiction books for children on topics ranging from science and
history to civics. She is an experienced presenter who has done
presentations for children and adults for more than 25 years.
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Published
Works
How
to Build Your Own Country,
Kids Can Press 2009
Who
Discovered America?,
Kids
Can Press 2008
Inventions
FAQ,
Kids Can Press 2003
Space
FAQ,
Kids Can Press 2002
The
Kids Book of Canadian Firsts,
Kids Can Press 2001
Wacky
Plant Cycles,
Mondo
Publishing 2000
Weather
FAQ,
Kids Can Press 2000
The
Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count,
Kids Can Press 2000
The
Secret Life of Fairies,
by
Penelope Larkspur (pseudonym), Kids Can Press 1999
Earthlings
Inside and Out: A Space Alien Studies the Human Body,
Kids Can Press 1999
The
Science Book for Girls and Other Intelligent Beings,
Kids Can Press 1993
Weatherwatch,
Kids Can Press 1990
Pets,
Greey de Pencier 1988
Inventions,
Greey de Pencier 1987
Upcoming:
Welcome
to the World, Kids
Can Press 2011
Awards
and Nominations
How
To Build Your Own Country
Winner:
Children’s
Literature Roundtables Information Book Award 2010
Nominated:
OLA
Forest of Reading Silver Birch, 2011
Hackmatack,
2011
Kids
Book of Canadian Firsts
Nominated:
Sheila
A. Egoff Award
The
Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count
Winner:
Parents’
Choice Award 2000
Earthlings
Inside and Out
Regional
winner:
Silver
Birch Award 2000
Nominated:
Red
Cedar Award 2001-2002
FAQ
weather
Winner:
Science and Society Award 2000
Nominated:
Hackmatack
Award 2002
Red
Cedar Award 2002-2003
FAQ
Space
Nominated:
Red
Cedar Award 2004-2005
Who
Discovered America?
Nominated:
Hackmatack
Award, 2010
Valerie’s
Presentation Details
How
to Build Your Own Country
(pictured above in cake version) is a civics lesson in disguise. I have
developed a program in which children collectively create an imaginary
country by choosing a name for their country, a flag, an anthem and a
currency. After establishing an identity for their country, children
talk about forms of government and how decisions get made in real-life
countries.
Or,
if people wish, I can describe the stages of book-making, using How
to Build Your own Country
as a model. Children see how this book started with a silly idea
(according to the editor who came up with it) and emerged through the
writing and illustration process.
Throughout,
the emphasis is on having fun while working together. Does it work?
According to one boy in a Burnaby classroom: “I really had fun with
your book How
to Build Your Own Country.
It’s the best stuff I did in school. It was so fun that I think it’s
almost as fun as gym.”
Grades
I will present to: 4-6
Maximum number of
students per session: 75-80
I
am comfortable presenting in: classroom, library
Equipment
and other requirements
Flip
chart and markers or blackboard and chalk.
Masking
or Scotch tape.
I request that a librarian, teacher or other school representative be
present throughout the presentation.
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