And available for school and library visits!
May 17 – Orangeville Comicon, 10 am – 3pm at Orangeville Curling Club – 76 5th Avenue, Orangeville, ON, with author Tamara Botting
July 18 – Streetsville Comicon, 10am – 3pm at Vic Johnston Community Centre – 335 Church Street, Mississauga, ON, with author Tamara Botting
August 8 – St. Lawrence Barket Market, 11am – 5pm at Market Street on the west side of the St. Lawrence Market – 93 Front Street East, Toronto, ON, with Kurī K9 Massage
August 22 – Stratford Comicon, 10am – 3pm at Best Western Plus the Arden Park Hotel – 552 Ontario Street, Stratford, ON, with author Tamara Botting
September 5 – Barrie Comicon, 10am – 3pm at Eastview Arena – 453 Grove Street East, Barrie, ON, with author Tamara Botting
November 15 – Ajax Comicon, 10am – 3pm at Audley Recreation Centre – Ajax Sportplex – 1955 Audley Road, Ajax, ON, with author Tamara Botting
April is Genocide Remembrance Month, with April 16th commemorating the millions of Ukrainians intentionally starved by the Soviet Union. (Books by Marsha: Winterkill, Enough)
April 24th is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Books by Marsha: Dance of the Banished, Daughter of War, Aram’s Choice, Call Me Aram, Nobody’s Child, The Hunger).
Won the Lane Anderson Award for My Planet is a Poem
- Book Signing at Indigo Stoney Creek – May 24
- Exhibitor and Storytime Reader at Flamborough Book Fair – July 26
NEW BOOK: Building Homes for All: Technology for A Fair and Green Planet is out on March 17th (Orca Book Publishers)
Unsinkable Cayenne, an NCTE Notable Verse Novel by Jessica Vitalis, won the High Plains Book Award, is a Forest of Reading Red Maple Nominee, and is on the 2025 Telling Tales Reading list as well as the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids and Teens 2025 list. It was also long listed for the Reading the West Book Awards.
Touring: Award-winning middle grade author and Forest of Reading Red Maple Nominee Jessica Vitalis is currently booking school visits for spring 2026 and will be in the GTA the weeks of January 26th and May 11th.
My Street Remembers, written by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson, was named a Quill & Quire Notable Book for 2025.
Karen’s disability-inclusive picture book PLAYDATE SURPRISE (Scholastic Canada) for ages 3-7 has WON The Word Award 2025 for Books – Children – General Market!
Katie Crumble: And the Case of the Missing Underwear has been selected to be on Telling Tales 2025 Reading List.
Oksanna is honoured to have her first chapter book, Katie Crumble and the Case of the Missing Underwear, chosen to be on the CBC Spring List of Children’s Books to Read 2025. Katie will be insufferable!
Caroline’s historical middle grade novel PLAGUE THIEVES is shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Awards — Diamond Willow 2025.
Touring:
April 21-26 Morrin Centre, Quebec City – available for school and library presentations!