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Kathy Stinson

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Kathy Stinson, author of internationally acclaimed Canadian children's classic, Red is Best and the TD Award Winner, The Man with the Violin, also writes novels, short stories, and nonfiction for young people of all ages. ...more

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Kathy Stinson Above all, read. Read lots. Read widely. And write.
Kathy Stinson As soon as I finished reading Gene Weingarten’s Pulitzer Prize winning story, “Pearls Before Breakfast” about an experiment conducted by the Washingto…moreAs soon as I finished reading Gene Weingarten’s Pulitzer Prize winning story, “Pearls Before Breakfast” about an experiment conducted by the Washington Post in 2007, in which virtuoso violinist, Joshua Bell, played in a subway station dressed as an ordinary street musician, I knew I had to tell the story as a child might have experienced it.(less)
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Red is Best

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The Man with the Violin

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The Bare Naked Book

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Harry and Walter

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The Dance of the Violin

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What Happened to Ivy

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Big or Little?

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Five ‘My Life in Poetry’ Updates

As National Poetry Month draws to a close, I’d like to tell you what’s been happening in the poetry corner of my life recently.

This winter CV2 published “After the Phone Call”. It started with an exercise in The Practice of Poetry , which suggested “Write a poem about your mother’s kitchen. Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead. You are not in the poem, but some f Read more of this blog post »
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