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Catherine Austen
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A stage full of awesome authors at the Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Award Ceremony this week.
This Tuesday, I had the pleasure of calling the names of twelve young writers whose short fiction won places in the Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Contest. What a pleasure to be one of this year’s judges and to read excerpts from the fantastic mix of winning stories: h...
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All Good Children
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Walking Backward
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28 Tricks for a Fearless Grade 6
— published 2014 — 4 editions |
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My Cat Isis
by — published 2011 |
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26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies: Authoritative Reference Care and Id Manual
by , — published 2008 — 2 editions |
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Horse: Magnificent, Playful, Loyal
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Cheltenham
— published 2015 |
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Choosing & Looking After Your Horse
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| Really nice simple book about pets in all their variety. Jumps off the tongue as you read it aloud. Completely charming illustrations. Love it. | |
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| I love squishing-together bedtime stories, and the critters in this one are just adorable in their efforts to help the mouse sleep. Wonderful characters. Beautiful illustrations--great colours, expressive faces and forms, and a nice mix of active sce ...more | |
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Adorable duck. Great story, wonderful illustrations with spots of colour among the black and white drawings. Lots of action and emotion, and two main characters kids can relate to. Just lovely. I agree with another reviewer that the "Indian headdress" ...more |
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Adorable duck. Great story, wonderful illustrations with spots of colour among the black and white drawings. Lots of action and emotion, and two main characters kids can relate to. Just lovely. I agree with another reviewer that the "Indian headdress" ...more |
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“Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater. It keeps taking slices off you until there's so little left you just crumble.”
― Catherine Austen
― Catherine Austen
“...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.”
― Catherine Austen, All Good Children
― Catherine Austen, All Good Children
“I can do it, Max. I still have my thoughts. I just can't say them out loud. I still have my friends. I just can't show them. I still have all the things that used to matter. They're inside of me. They can't take that away.”
― Catherine Austen, All Good Children
― Catherine Austen, All Good Children
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