Who Am I?
I write novels and picture books for children. My young adult novel, Second Chances (Red Deer Press 2021) recalls the frightening polio epidemics of the 1950s, when children were stricken with paralysis or died from this terrible disease. It also addresses the racism and injustices inflicted on residents of Rooster Town, a Metis community in Winnipeg. Second Chances was awarded the prestigious Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People in 2022.
My middle years novel, City on Strike (Red Deer Press 2019), is set during the turmoil of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
My next novel, What Friends Are For, published by Heritage House, is now available for pre-order, with the launch planned for October 29. It's set in 1983, when Dr. Henry Morgentaler opened an abortion clinic in Winnipeg to challenge the abortion laws in Canada. A fifteen-year-old girl is assaulted and becomes pregnant. Her turmoil is compounded by her mother's activism against the clinic.
I also write articles for The Cottager - Lake Country Living and Lifestyle magazine and I am the children's book columnist for the the Winnipeg Free Press. For more than 30 years, I reviewed children's books for CM Magazine, a Canadian reviewing journal for children and I'm the children's book columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press.
I had a great job for more than 25 years as the teacher-librarian in Kindergarten - Grade 8 schools in Winnipeg, where I was inspired by thousands of wonderful stories for children - and by the children who read them.
I'm also a mother of three and a grandmother (Baba) to five. I love to bake (especially bread), to cook and to write about cooking in my food blog, North End Nosh. I love to travel, I'm a voracious reader, and a habitual knitter.
I write novels and picture books for children. My young adult novel, Second Chances (Red Deer Press 2021) recalls the frightening polio epidemics of the 1950s, when children were stricken with paralysis or died from this terrible disease. It also addresses the racism and injustices inflicted on residents of Rooster Town, a Metis community in Winnipeg. Second Chances was awarded the prestigious Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People in 2022.
My middle years novel, City on Strike (Red Deer Press 2019), is set during the turmoil of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
My next novel, What Friends Are For, published by Heritage House, is now available for pre-order, with the launch planned for October 29. It's set in 1983, when Dr. Henry Morgentaler opened an abortion clinic in Winnipeg to challenge the abortion laws in Canada. A fifteen-year-old girl is assaulted and becomes pregnant. Her turmoil is compounded by her mother's activism against the clinic.
I also write articles for The Cottager - Lake Country Living and Lifestyle magazine and I am the children's book columnist for the the Winnipeg Free Press. For more than 30 years, I reviewed children's books for CM Magazine, a Canadian reviewing journal for children and I'm the children's book columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press.
I had a great job for more than 25 years as the teacher-librarian in Kindergarten - Grade 8 schools in Winnipeg, where I was inspired by thousands of wonderful stories for children - and by the children who read them.
I'm also a mother of three and a grandmother (Baba) to five. I love to bake (especially bread), to cook and to write about cooking in my food blog, North End Nosh. I love to travel, I'm a voracious reader, and a habitual knitter.
