Calgary Children’s Book Fair
Saturday is the Calgary Children’s Book Fair. Derek Mah recommended I bring something to do in the quiet times, so I found directions for a (simple!) origami dinosaur. I bought some way-too-small origami paper at the Galt Museum, so anyone in Calgary can come and watch me struggle with teeny tiny little folds.
Or, you know, talk to authors and buy books. Should be fun!
Maureen
Road Trip!
Saturday Mark and I drove to Lethbridge for a book reading at the Galt Museum. It was, for both of us, the windiest drive we’ve ever had. Someone at the Museum said, “Oh, this is pretty normal.” I’m hoping that’s not true. We were almost blown off a street corner later in the day.
The drive was beautiful – golden stubble in the fields, cerulean blue sky with indigo smudges. We passed a wind turbine farm (for those who don’t know, that’s where they grow wind turbines). The mountains were mostly obscured by low clouds to the west, but we saw lots of the foothills and the prairies. As we neared Lethbridge we passed rugged river valleys that reminded me of the badlands around Drumheller, except not as extreme.
We drove around the University of Lethbridge, with buildings set into the steep bank of a river valley.
The Galt Museum is across the valley, an old brick building that used to be a hospital, with a gorgeous modern glass structure overlooking the river valley. I read to a great bunch of kids, many of them too young for Feather Brain, but they sat still and listened and seemed to really enjoy it. We played “What If” and invented a shadow monster and an evil alien robot; afterwards the kids made up their own stories.
Following great advice from the women at the gift shop, we drove into downtown Lethbridge, with it’s old brick buildings, wide main street and small-prairie-town angle parking, and had a fabulous lunch at a coffee shop.
On the way home, I found Carmina Burana on Mark’s IPod and cranked it up just as we drove through Claresholm. Claresholm is definitely not a Carmina Burana kind of town – KD Lang would have been more appropriate. As we drove back to Calgary the sky turned periwinkle and then a deep teal blue.
I Want To Be A Thimble Witch
Eric Orchard, the artist who did the cover for Feather Brain, posts art work, mostly for his comics, almost every day on his blog. Today’s has totally charmed me. http://ericorchard.blogspot.com.
Musings: Calgary Children's Book Fair Feather Brain reprinted
by Maureen Bush
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Feather Brain Reprinted, Again
Feather Brain has been reprinted, again! I’m so pumped. This doesn’t push Feather Brain into a big name author’s sales levels, but for an Orca Young Reader, it’s doing really well. I’m proud of my little darling.
I ordered books for the Calgary Children’s Book Fair (Nov. 14), and they’re being shipped in from the US warehouse, because there are none left in Canada.
Oh, and it was #1 on Amazon.ca’s Children’s Books – Animals – Dinosaurs list – at least in that hour that I checked. That means, for one hour at least, it was the top-selling kids’ book about dinosaurs on Amazon, in Canada. Cool, huh?
Maureen