toronto

Sunday September 22, 2013 at Queen's Park Circle, 11am - 6pm

What's on at Queen's Park

Adult Programming

  • Great Books Marquee

    The place to be for the most exciting and dynamic books of the year, this venue features a variety of hot spring and fall titles including fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry.

  • New in 2012: Nothing But The Truth Tent

    In the venue, see the amazing range of quality, literary non-fiction being produced in Canada.

  • New in 2012: Penguin Pavilion

    See your favourite Penguin authors read from their latest releases.

  • Remarkable Reads Tent

    Random House of Canada Ltd. and McClelland & Stewart showcase some of your favourite, and soon-to-be favourite, authors.

  • Scribendi.com Wordshop Marquee

    This venue will offer a day of writing workshops covering craft and career strategy for aspiring writers featuring the esteemed faculty of The Humber School for Writers

  • This Is Not The Shakespeare Stage

    This venue breaks the boundaries of our book and magazine festival to truly explore and celebrate the spoken and written word.  Featuring hourly, genre-based, interactive programming sessions which showcase the great young adult books, authors and artists Canada has to offer, this venue will bring a fresh, fun, and youthful perspective to the festival.

  • Toronto Book Awards Tent

    Nominees for the Toronto Book Awards read from their nominated works.  Can you predict the winner?  Also enjoy a special programming hour featuring Diaspora Dialogues authors.

  • Toronto Star Tent

    The Toronto Star offers thought-provoking presentations from some of its most popular writers.

  • Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent

    This new venue celebrates the amazing fiction, non-fiction and poetry being produced by writers and publishers from our province.

 

 

KidStreet Programming:

 

  • Children's Activity Tent

    This venue will feature creative crafts and interactive presentations inspired by new children's books, plus music and a cartooning workshop too!

  • Children's Reading Tent

    Come and see some of Canada's most renowned children's authors and illustrators present some of the best children's books of 2012

  • TVOKids Stage

    Favourite personalities from TVOKids take the stage for a day of fun-filled literacy-focused entertainment including music, stories, readings and interactive sessions.

 

 

 

  • Diaspora Dialogues Tent

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  • EYE Weekly Music Stage

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  • Great Books Marquee

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  • Money Matters Tent

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Children's Activity Tent

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  • 11:15 - 11:45 AM :: Body Works Series - My Itchy Body and My Healthy Body

    Liza Fromer and Francine Gerstein MD
    Tundra Books - $14.99
    Activity suitability: All ages

    In their Body Works series Liza Fromer and Dr. Francine Gerstein have taken it upon themselves to think up every question a child could have about their body and answer them in an educational and amusing manner. Each title in the series is divided up by topic and focus on giving all the information a child could want to feel safe and secure in their own skin.

    Join Liza Fromer and Dr. Francine Gerstein fora fast-paced Body Works Quiz – and test your knowledge about the human body!

  • 12:00 - 12:45 PM :: Counting on Fall

    Lizann Flatt and Ashley Barron
    Owlkids Books - $14.95
    Activity suitability: Ages 5+

    What if animals and plants knew math, just like you? Would leaves fall in patterns? Would whales enter a race? In Counting on Fall, nature comes to life to help children grasp concepts of number sense and numeration. Colorful, cut-paper collage art uniquely evokes the natural world, while two levels of text — one a lyrical story, the other asking children to problem-solve — bring the reader to a full understanding of the math concept being covered.

    Join author Lizann Flatt and illustrator Ashley Barron for some hands-on numbers and paper collage activities inspired by Counting on Fall.

  • 1:00 - 1:45 PM :: Checkers and Dot & Checkers and Dot at the Zoo

    J. Torres and J. Lum
    Tundra Books - $8.99
    Activity suitability: Ages 3-7

    Welcome to the wonderfully patterned world of Checkers and Dot, a sweet and striking series of board books with high-contrast, patterned art for developing eyes, simple but memorable rhyming text for reading aloud, and cute-as-a-button characters!

    Join J. Lum and J. Torres for a felt puppet decorating and a hat making activity.

  • 2:00 - 2:45 PM :: I'm Bored

    Debbie Ridpath Ohi (illustrator)
    Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers - $19.99
    Activity suitability: Ages 5+

    Just when a little girl thinks she couldn’t possibly be more bored, she stumbles upon a potato who turns the tables on her by declaring that children are boring. But this girl isn’t going to let a vegetable tell her what’s what, so she sets out to show the unimpressed potato all the amazing things kids can do. Too bad the potato is anything but interested….

    Join illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi for a fun-filled drawing activity!

  • 3:00 - 3:45 PM :: The Pirate Girl's Treasure: An Origami Adventure

    Peyton Leung and Hilary Leung
    Kids Can Press - $18.95
    Activity suitability: Ages 5+

    This book’s got it all: hidden treasure, a spunky pirate heroine and an origami activity at book’s end that lets readers relive the adventure.

    Join the Brothers Leung as they present their new book, The Pirate Girl's Treasure - An Origami Adventure and lead kids through an origami activity.

  • 4:00 - 4:45 PM :: An Alligator Pie Party with Dennis Lee!

    Activity suitability: All ages

    Join renowned children’s author Dennis Lee for a reading and celebration of two of his well-loved titles, Alligator Pie and The Ice Cream Store. Step into a book and pose with our bigger-than-life size standee of Alligator Pie and enjoy a colouring activity based on illustrations from theIce Cream Store!

    Dennis Lee is Toronto’s first poet laureate, an Officer of the Order of Canada and the author of timeless children’s collections such as Alligator Pie, Garbage Delight, Jelly Belly, Bubblegum Delicious, and The Ice Cream Store.

  • 5:00 - 5:45 PM :: Folk Music Feast for the Small Fry, With Andrew "Too Tall" Queen

    Activity suitability:  All ages 
    Get kids connected with their food through this musical performance! From his latest release, GROW, Andrew Queen performs songs all about food: eating food, growing food, cooking food, and sometimes even being eaten! There are some of his signature fairy tale/folk tale songs, plenty of silly sing-a-longs and even one dedicated to eating local and saving the family farm. This performance will have audience members moving, grooving and building up their appetites for more!