Author Interview with Anne Dublin, author of The Baby Experiment

This Wendesday for our Ask an Author series, we caught up with Anne Dublin, whose book The Baby Experiment just realeased this week.

CS: Tell us about your book.
AD: The Baby Experiment: Johanna is a 14-year-old Jewish girl who lives in Hamburg, Germany in the early 18th century. She feels stifled by the daily drudgery [...]

Chasing the White Witch Book Trailer

The Grade 6 students of Kettle Lakes P.S. created a book trailer for Marina Cohen’s new book Chasing the White Witch.
Click on the link below to see it!
Chasing the White Witch Book Trailer

Canada’s Maverick

As part of our Ask and Author Wednesdays we have a guest post today by Helen Forsey author of Eugene Forsey, Canada’s Maverick Sage.
It’s over a month since my book came off the press, but my “to do” list shows no sign of getting any shorter. My desk is piled with letters, lists and stick-it [...]

O Captain! My Captain!

As a certified English and History high school teacher I know that the bane of every English teacher’s job is trying to get kids to read — especially boys.
Sometimes as a teacher I felt that if nothing blew up, or no one was murdered, then there was just no point because no one in the [...]

Bill Sherk and Keep Up If You Can

It’s author Wednesday and today we have Bill Sherk who is the author of one of new releases Keep Up If You Can!
CS: Tell us about your book.
Bill: My new book “KEEP UP IF YOU CAN: Confessions of a high school teacher” (April 2012) looks back on my 31 years of teaching history to high [...]

The Famous Jalna Series

This week at Dundurn is what we’ve been calling our Jalna week. Now for those of you who do not know Jalna is a famous Canadian series of novels by Mazo de la Roche. I think the best description of the Jalna series is that it’s like the British tv show Downton Abbey – except [...]

Ask an Author: James Ross and his book Cottage Daze

As part of our Ask an Author series, this week we were able to sit down with James Ross, who is the author of one of our new releases Cottage Daze, and ask him some questions about his new book, and his writing process.
CS: Tell us about your book.
JR: How would I classify my [...]