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Simon Paré-Poupart

Simon Paré-Poupart ramasse les ordures depuis vingt ans. Ses études universitaires en sociologie et en administration internationale, ainsi que son expérience comme intervenant social n’auront pas eu raison de sa vocation de vidangeur. Ordures! est son premier livre.

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Chris Saunders

Chris Saunders is a best selling author and illustrator from the North East UK. He studied Illustration at The University of Northampton, and has lectured in Illustration for several years.

Chris is internationally represented by the illustration agency Astound US, working predominantly within the children's picture book industry; as well as book covers, educational publications, character and creative development, and licencing.

Chris is the author and illustrator of ‘Wish’, his debut picture book, published in multiple languages around the world and sold in retailers including Waterstones. He has illustrated multiple children’s picture books to date, working with publishing houses and clients such as Scholastic, Gautier-Languereau (Hachett

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Jessie Sima

Jessie Sima is an author and illustrator of picture books. They grew up in a small town in southern New Jersey and now write and draw in a creaky house in New York State. When not making books, Jessie can be found reading graphic novels, watching spooky movies, and playing outside with dogs.

Visit them online at jessiesima.com!

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Samuel Larochelle

Né en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, encore habité par la candeur d'un enfant, tout en aspirant à la sagesse d'un moine tibétain, Samuel Larochelle est un hyperactif de l'écriture. Remarqué et apprécié dans le monde des médias, il collabore régulièrement à une quinzaine de publications (dont La Presse, L'actualité, Nightlife, Huffington Post Québec, Échos Montréal) tout en tenant un blogue de critiques et de réflexions culturelles (Sage Gamin). À cause des garçons est son premier roman.

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Simon Boulerice

Enfant, Simon Boulerice chantait dans la cage d’escalier, parce que sa voix y résonnait beaucoup. Il croyait chanter aussi bien que Whitney Houston. Mais ce n’était pas le cas. Depuis que sa voix a mué, Simon se plait à danser, à écrire et à jouer. Jouer surtout, oui. Parce qu’il aime beaucoup rire.

Il sort peu de chez lui. Il le reconnaît : il est un casanier qui sort un soir sur deux au théâtre. Il boit encore son jus d’orange à même le goulot. On ne lui a rien appris. Néanmoins, il a étudié en littérature (Cégep de Saint-Laurent et UQAM), puis en interprétation théâtrale (Cégep de Lionel-Groulx, promotion 2007). Lors de sa formation, en plus de recevoir le prix de la création à la finale nationale de Cégeps en spectacle 2005 pour un solo

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Naomi Fontaine

Naomi Fontaine, née en 1987, est une romancière et enseignante innue originaire de Uashat dans la région administrative québécoise de la Côte Nord, au Canada.

Lors de ses études, son talent d'écriture est remarqué par François Bon, professeur de création littéraire, qui l'encourage à mettre de l'avant sa voix.

Elle commence alors à participer à des concours de création littéraire, notamment au Concours canadien de rédaction et d’art pour autochtones, et à rédiger des textes qui donneront lieu à son œuvre intitulée Kuessipan. Elle poursuit ensuite son parcours littéraire dans le cadre du programme Première ovation de l'Institut canadien de Québec sous le mentorat de Jean Désy.

Composé de soixante-six textes portant sur des actes simples de la v

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Vikki VanSickle

Everything I need to know in life I learned from children's literature. My work ranges from contemporary middle grade fiction to magical, storytime-ready picture books.

I am currently living in Toronto where I work in children's publishing in addition to writing. All kids' books, all the time!

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Hisae Iwaoka

Hisae Iwaoka (岩岡ヒサエ , Iwaoka Hisae) is a Japanese manga artist.
Her work includes the one-shot manga Hana Boro (Flower Cookies) and Shiroi Kumo (White Clouds), Yume no Soko,Hoshigahara Aomanjuu no Mori, as well as the series Saturn Apartments, published by Ikki Comics and licensed in English by Viz Media.

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Aaron Blabey

Aaron is an Australian author of children's books and artist who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon and the best-selling Pig the Pug.

In the field of acting, he is probably best known for his lead roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005.

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H.A. Rey

Hans Augusto Rey was born on September 16, 1898, in Hamburg, Germany. He grew up there near the world-famous Hagenbeck Zoo, and developed a lifelong love for animals and drawing. Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (who would be known to most of the world as Margret Rey) was also born in Hamburg on May 16, 1906. The two met briefly when Margret was a young girl, before she left Hamburg to study art. They were reunited in 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, where Hans was selling bathtubs as part of a family business and Margret was escaping the political climate in Germany. Margret convinced Hans to leave the family business, and soon they were working together on a variety of projects.

Hans and Margret were married in Brazil on August 16, 1935, and they move

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Padma Venkatraman

American author, Padma Venkatraman, has worked as chief scientist on oceanographic ships and spent time under the sea, directed a school, and lived in 5 countries. Her 5 novels, BORN BEHIND BARS, THE BRIDGE HOME, A TIME TO DANCE, ISLAND’S END and CLIMBING THE STAIRS, were released to multiple starred reviews (22 as of 8/30/21), and won numerous honors and awards (e.g. WNDB Walter Award 2020; SCBWI Golden Kite Award 2020; Paterson Prize; Julia Ward Howe Young Readers Award; South Asia Book Award; ALA, IRA Notable; Booklist, Kirkus, NYPL, Yalsa BBYA; CCBC choice; IBBY outstanding etc.). Her latest novel, BORN BEHIND BARS, a JLG selection, is available for order. She provides keynote addresses and commencement speeches, travels to internationa

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Angela DiTerlizzi

Angela DiTerlizzi is a mom, wife, and author who loves writing books for children. Her picture books include Some Pets, Some Bugs, Baby Love, and Just Add Glitter. She and her husband, bestselling author/illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, reside with their daughter in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear is an essayist, novelist and children’s author. She was born in London, England and moved to Toronto at the age of four with her British father (a foreign correspondent and documentary filmmaker) and Japanese mother (a painter and art dealer).

Her books have been translated into eighteen languages, published in over twenty-five countries, and garnered nominations from the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the National Magazine Awards, among other honours.

Unearthing: a Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets (2023) was a national bestseller and awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for No

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Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers' work takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and HarperCollins UK and Penguin USA publish his award-winning picture books, now translated into over 30 languages.

In 2007, Jeffers was the official illustrator for World Book Day, and in 2008 Lost and Found became Oliver's first book to made into animation by London-based Studio AKA.

Jeffers won a NY Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with the artist and director Mac Premo, and in 2013 Jeffers co-directed the video for U2's Ordinary Love with Premo. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jeffers now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Andre Agassi

American tennis player Andre Agassi of the few male singles won the Wimbledon, United States open, French open, and Australian open tournaments and also won a gold medal at the Olympics of 1996.

Critics generally consider this now retired professional and former world number-1 of the greatest of all time and call him the best service returner in the history of the game.

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Sharon M. Draper

Sharon M. Draper is a professional educator as well as an accomplished writer. She has been honored as the National Teacher of the Year, is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Award, and is a New York Times bestselling author. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Janet Stevens

Janet Stevens began drawing as a child. Pictures decorated her walls, mirrors, furniture and school work -- including math assignments. While this didn't always sit well with her teachers, it was what she loved to do.

Janet’s father was in the Navy therefore she moved a great deal and attended many schools while growing up.

After graduating from high school in Hawaii in 1971 she landed a job creating Hawaiian designs for fabric. The printed fabric was then made into aloha shirts and muumuus. After she graduated from the University of Colorado in 1975 with a degree in Fine Arts Janet began compiling a portfolio of “characters”, bears in tutus, rhinos in sneakers, and walruses in Hawaiian shirts. In 1977, she attended “The Illustrator's Worksh

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Chris Van Allsburg

Chris was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18, 1949, the second child of Doris Christiansen Van Allsburg and Richard Van Allsburg. His sister Karen was born in 1947.

Chris’s paternal grandfather, Peter, owned and operated a creamery, a place where milk was turned into butter, cream, cottage cheese, and ice cream. It was named East End Creamery and after they bottled the milk (and made the other products) they delivered it to homes all around Grand Rapids in yellow and blue trucks.

When Chris was born, his family lived in an old farm house next door to the large brick creamery building. It was a very old house that, like the little house in Virginia Lee Burton’s story, had once looked over farmland. But by 1949, the house was surrounde

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Caron Levis

Caron Levis is the author of the picture books, May I Have A Word? (FSG) Stuck with the Blooz (HMH) and Ida, Always (Atheneum) which the New York Times Book Review calls, "an example of children's books at their best." Forthcoming titles include Stop That Yawn! (Atheneum, 2018) and Mama's Shoes (Abrams 2019) Caron is an adjunct professor and the coordinator for The New School's Writing for Children/YA MFA program, where she earned her degree. She has an LMSW from Hunter College; after many years as an arts educator, Caron now loves using acting and writing to teach social, emotional, and literacy skills to students of all ages through her author workshops. Having trained in acting and dabbled in playwriting, Caron enjoys turning theatre tec

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Dusti Bowling

DUSTI BOWLING grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, where, as her family will tell you, she always had her nose in a book. She released her first middle grade novel in 2017 and hasn't stopped writing since.

Dusti's books have won the Reading the West Award, the Sakura Medal, a Golden Kite Honor, the William Allen White Children's Book Award, and have been nominated for a Cybil and over fifty state awards. Her books are Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections and have been named best books of the year by the Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, Bank Street College of Education, A Mighty Girl, Shelf Awareness, and many more.

Dusti currently lives in Eagar, Arizona with her husband, three daughters, and a bunch of farm animals.

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