Tag: children’s books

I Read Canadian Day video

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Video
February 15, 2021
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February 17 is I Read Canadian Day, and to promote Canadian books and bookstores, a number of children’s authors across the country posted videos drawing attention to that fact and to a local bookstore–as well, of course, as their own books. Here’s the one I did, on the frozen shores of Wascana Lake here in …

My latest book: The Adventures of Michael & Mia: Stewards of the Land

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books
March 1, 2015
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This is a bit different from my usual work. Not an alien, spaceship, monster or magic-user to be found! A while back I was contacted by Agriculture in the Classroom Saskatchewan about writing a short illustrated book to be used in classrooms during Agriculture Literacy Week. Each year during this week, AITC has agricultural producers and …

The catch-all post: recent reviews and other bits

By Edward Willett in Blog
August 30, 2009
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You may have noticed that blogging pretty much dried up after WorldCon. Heavy-duty vacationing will do that to you. And now that I’m back home I’m so completely snowed under by things that need doing that blogging generally falls pretty far down the list. Heck, I’m barely managing a Tweet now and then. Still, I’ve …

A new book to brag about: The Bounty Mutiny

By Edward Willett in Blog
July 22, 2009
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I knew it was coming, but I didn’t expect it to arrive so hard on the heels of Disease-Hunting Detective: my latest children’s non-fiction book, The Bounty Mutiny: from the Court Case to the Movie, showed up Monday from Enslow Publishers. Here’s the description from the back of the book: “The Bounty was a British …

Page proofs of my book about the Bounty mutiny arrive

By Edward Willett in Blog
March 23, 2009
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I received the PDF page proofs of one of my upcoming children’s non-fiction books, The Bounty Mutiny: From the Court Case to the Movie, from Enslow today. That’s the title page. It’s part of a series called Famous Court Cases That Became Movies–among the others in the series are books dealing with the Amistad mutiny …

Hugo Awards final ballot released

By Edward Willett in Blog
March 20, 2009
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The Hugo and John W. Campbell Best New Writer final ballot has been announced. Alas, Marseguro is not on it. (I and everyone else would have been shocked if it had been!) What I find most interesting about it is that three of the Best Novel nominees are young adult books: Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, …

What I’ve Just Read: Queste

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 26, 2009
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Actually, I finished this a couple of weeks ago–I’ve just been slow blogging about. Maybe because I don’t have much to say. If you liked the previous Septimus Heap books by Angie Sage, I’m sure you’ll like this one. If you haven’t read them, there’s not much point in reading this one. I’ve enjoyed them …

Title page of my next children’s non-fiction book

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 28, 2009
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Just got the PDF of the rough layout of what will probably* be my next-published children’s non-fiction book, Disease-Hunting Scientist: Careers Hunting Deadly Diseases–that’s the title page at left. It’s part of a series from Enslow Publishers called Wild Science Careers. It’s been interesting to work on, since I got to interview several scientists who …

What I Just Read: Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival

By Edward Willett in Blog
November 13, 2008
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I thoroughly enjoyed Arthur Slade‘s Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival. Slade is a terrific writer of children’s and young adult fiction (check out his Governor General Award-winning Dust) and he doesn’t disappoint with this tale of a boy who comes from a long line of people who die from lightning strikes. There aren’t any …

What I’ve Just Read: The Big Chunk of Ice

By Edward Willett in Blog
September 11, 2008
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Subtitled “The Last Known Adventure of The Mad Scientists’ Club,” this is the posthumously published novel by Bertrand R. Brinley that continues the escapades of the better-prank-playing-through-science-and-engineering youngsters told in the short story collections The Mad Scientists’ Club and The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club. I enjoyed it, but probably only because I’d …

A good year for Ransome fans!

By Edward Willett in Blog
April 21, 2008
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That would be Arthur Ransome, author of the Swallows and Amazons series, one of the greatest writers of children’s books ever, and a personal favorite of mine from a very young age (I saved up my allowance and ordered the entire 12-book series, one a month, all the way from Jonathan Cape in England, when …

An astonishing example of telepathy on my part

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 14, 2008
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I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Hey, aren’t you supposed to be finishing up the sequel to Marseguro? How come I haven’t seen a ‘first line I wrote today’ update for a while?” The reason, dear reader, is simple: I have been fleeing a deadline for ages, but it finally caught up to me, …