Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen's Park, 11am - 6pm
Cary Fagan
Event Info: Children's Reading Tent at 12:10 PM and 1:40 PM
Cary Fagan is an award-winning children’s author who has also written several adult novels and has been an editor and contributor to several magazines and newspapers, including the Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette. His work has won the City of Toronto Book Award and the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction, and he has been a finalist for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. He is also the author of Book of Big Brothers, illustrated by Luc Melanson, The Big Swim and Mr. Karp’s Last Glass. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
The Word On The Street wishes to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts through The Writer’s Union of Canada in support of this reading.
Books
Ella May and the Wishing Stone
One day, Ella May finds a stone that has a line going all-all-all the way around it. Surely a stone this special must grant wishes, she decides. Soon she is busy making wishes and bragging about them. When her friends want to share the fun, Ella May objects. But she soon learns that keeping the stone for herself is a sure way to lose friends. By using her imagination – much more powerful than any stone – she is able to grant everybody’s wishes, including her own.
Banjo of Destiny
Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. His parents, a former hotdog vendor and window cleaner who made it big in dental floss, make sure Jeremiah goes to the very best private school, and that he takes lessons in all the things he will need to know how to do as an accomplished and impressive young man. Etiquette lessons, ballroom dancing, watercolor painting and, of course, classical piano. Jeremiah complies, because he wants to please his parents. But one day, by chance, he hears the captivating strains of a different kind of music — the strums, plucks and rhythms of a banjo. It’s music that stirs something in Jeremiah’s dutiful little soul, and he is suddenly obsessed. And when his parents forbid him to play one, he decides to learn anyway — even if he has to make the instrument himself.
