The Ontario Library Association has partnered with Authors’ Booking Service to assist nominees with arranging school and library bookings. We are honoured to be helping the following nominees with their visits.

All of the nominees listed below are available for school and library readings. Nominees who are based in Ontario have more flexibility in timing their visits.

Out of province nominees will be clustering their presentations during the days preceding the Festival of Trees in May.

Here are the dates:

Toronto May 15th (Blue Spruce, Red Maple, White Pine)
Toronto May 16th (Silver Birch and Le Prix Tamarac
Ottawa May 17th (Red Maple and Silver Birch)
Thunder Bay May 18th (Blue Spruce and Silver Birch)

Our goal is to get all of the out-of-province nominees enough bookings so that they can afford to come to their own award ceremonies. You can help us with that. Let us know if you would like to host an author visit in early May 2012. Ask us about subsidy possibilities.




Blue Spruce

Linda Bailey,author of Stanley's Little Sister. Lives in British Columbia.

Rebecca Bender, author and illustrator of Giraffe and Bird. Lives in Burlington.

Heather McLeod, author of Kiss Me! (I'm a Prince!). Lives in Thunder Bay.

Sarah Tsiang, author of A Flock of Shoes. Lives in Kingston.

Hearther Hartt-Sussman, author of Nana Says No. Lives in Toronto.

Ashley Spires, author and illustrator of Small Saul. Lives in Saskatchewan. 

Silver Birch Express Fiction

Philippa Dowding, author of The Gargoyle Overhead. Lives in Toronto.

Cary Fagan, author of Banjo of Destiny. Lives in Toronto.

Janet Wilson, author of Our Earth: How Kids are Saving the Planet. Lives near Guelph.

Jan Andrews, author of When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew. Lives near Ottawa

Natalie Hyde, author of Saving Armpit. Lives in Cambridge.



Silver Birch Fiction

Anna Kerz, author of Better Than Weird. Lives in Toronto.

Jacqueline Guest, author fo Ghost Messages. Lives in Alberta.

Valerie Sherrard, author of The Glory Wind. Lives in New Brunswick.

Rachna Gilmore, author of That Boy Red. Lives in Ottawa.

Virginia Frances Schwartz, author of Crossing to Freedom. Lives in NYC.

Julie Lawson, author of Ghosts of the Titanic. Lives in BC.

David Skuy, author of Undergrounders. Lives in Toronto.



Silver Birch non-fiction

Jan Thornhill, author of Who Wants A Pizza? Lives in Havelock, Ontario.

Lynda Colgan, author of Mathemagic! Lives in Kingston.



Red Maple Fiction

Sharon McKay, author of Thunder Over Kandahar. Lives near Burlington.

Susin Nielsen, author of Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom. Lives in BC.

Eric Walters, author of Flyboy. Lives in Mississauga

Rob Weston, author of Dust City. Lives in Toronto.

Jill MacLean, author of Home Truths. Lives in Nova Scotia.

Alyxandra Harvey, author of Haunting Violet. Lives north of Toronto.

Patrick Bowman, author of Torn From Troy. Lives in Toronto.

Deborah Ellis, author of No Safe Place. Lives in Simcoe ON.



White Pine

Don Aker, author of The Fifth Rule. Lives in Nova Scotia.

Don Calame, author of Beat the Band. Lives in BC and Toronto.

Gail Sobat, author of Chance to Dance For You. Lives in Alberta.

Lesley Anne Cowan, author of Something Wicked. Lives in Toronto.





White Pine non-fiction


Susan Juby, author of Nice Recovery. Lives in BC.

Kate Scowen & Peter Mitchell, author/illustrators for I.D. Live in Toronto.



Golden Oak

Janet Wilson, author of Our Earth: How Kids are Saving the Planet. Lives near Guelph.

Deborah Ellis, author of No Safe Place. Lives in Simcoe ON.



Le Prix Tamarac Express

Mireille Messier, author of Coup de théâtre à Stratford. Lives in Toronto.



Evergreen

Linwood Barclay, The Accident

Robert J. Wiersema, Bedtime Story

Daniel Kalla, The Far Side of the Sky

Darcie Friesen Hossack, Mennonites Don't Dance

Brian Frances, Natural Order

Frances Itani, Requiem

Frances Greenslade, Shelter

Roméo Dallaire, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children

Melissa Fung, Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity

Martha Schabas, Various Positions