Head on over to the main PaperTigers website to read our new interview with the wonderful Lisa Yee and find out about the background to some of her best-selling books.
After having my emotions wrenched between tears of laughter and genuine weeping during Lisa’s presentation at Serendipity 2012 in Vancouver earlier this year, I came back to the UK laden with her books. Older Brother, Younger Brother and I have been hijacking them from each other ever since – and it’s just as well I’ve read them as Younger Brother will bring a character matter-of-factly into conversation while I now have the necessary knowledge to do the mental somersault towards the fictional identity of this “person”. So if you don’t yet know Lisa’s books, I can thoroughly recommend them for you and any middle-grade/YA readers you know. In the meantime, head on over to our interview to find out more…
It’s been a wondewrful few days here in Vancouver. Serendipity was fabulous – and many thanks to the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable for hosting us and for putting together such a great program. I’ll be heading for the airport shortly, on my way back to the UK, and taking with me some wonderful memories, as well as a suitcase full of books…
Here’s a selection of the many photos I took -
Friday’s Gala Dinner:
Allen Say and Lisa Yee:
Our table, lef to right: Corinne, our lovely “Guardian Angel” for the conference Kat Thomson, Lisa’s “Guardian Angel” Rob Biittner, Lisa Yee and me behind.
Saturday – Serendipity 2012 at the Neville Scarfe Building, University of British Columbia – “The Year of the Dragon”
Paul Yee and Lisa Yee:
PaperTigers’ Paper Tiger meets Peepy Peep:
Getting our presentation set up…
Allen Say’s prsentation – here with his photograph with Sensei Noro Shinpei:
Making dragons at the lunchtime workshop with Origami Master Joseph Wu:
Then waking everybody up post lunch with some dancing from Shiamak’s Bollywood Dancers – billed to “rouse your inner dragon” – they sure did!
Saturday evening –
Black History Month~ Canada
African American History Month~ USA
National African American Read-in~ USA
National Year of Reading~ Australia
National Storytelling Week~ ongoing until Feb 4, United Kingdom
Kolkata Book Fair~ ongoing until Feb 6, Kolkata, India
Japanese Children’s Literature: A History from the International Library of Children’s Literature Collections~ ongoing until Feb 12, Tokyo, Japan
Taipei Book Fair~ Feb 1 -6, Taipei, Taiwan
28 Days Later: A Black History Celebration of Children’s and YA Lit~ Feb 1 – 29, USA
Children’s Literature Symposium: The Same Text but Different: Variants in Children’s Media~ Feb 3 – 4, Sarasota, FL, USA
2012 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour~ Feb 5 – 10
The Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children (AWIC) Presents an International Conference on Book Therapy~ Feb 9 – 11, New Delhi, India
Imagine Children’s Festival~ Feb 10 – 26, London, United Kingdom
Writer-in-Residence Launch: Meet Sarah Ellis~ Feb 11, Toronto, ON, Canada
47th ACELT Conference: Reading Ourselves, Reading the World~ Feb 11, Manila, Philippines
2011 Cybils (the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards) Winners Announced~ Feb 14
First Nations Public Library Week~ Feb 14 – 19, Province of Ontario, Canada
Chapter & Verse’s (A Book Club for Adults Discussing Children’s Lit) Discussion of ALA/ALSC Award Winners Feb 15, USA
Sun Gallery’s Twenty-third Annual Children’s Book
