Authors from the Ottawa-Gatineau region Andrée Poulin, Katia Canciani, Pierre-Luc Bélanger and Claudia Lahaie, among others, will be present to sign their most recent “babies” and meet their audience.
The literary event, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., is not only open to the public, but free. Around fifteen writers are expected there.
On the menu: meetings with authors and signing sessions, but also activities for young people, such as story time, and artistic writing workshops. Create cartoon characters.
The Ottawa bookstore Le coin du livre will have a kiosk there.
In the morning, November 23, visitors will be able to meet Andrée Poulin, who will officially launch her new book It’s not my damage (Éditions Druide) at 10:30 a.m., before signing a few copies.
This launch will take place after Story Time, scheduled for 10 a.m. We will read the children’s book there Santa loves sister’s fartsfourth volume in Andrée Poulin’s popular series featuring Saint-Nicolas. The title was published in October by Éditions de La Bagnole.
Like the three previous opuses – which have sold 23,000 copies, underlines the publisher – this fourth adventure of Santa Claus is illustrated by Jean Morin.
Katia Canciani (with a brand new title to offer, the first adventure of the Awatto club), Pierre-Luc Bélanger (Literary Award The Law 2016, youth category) and Éric Péladeau (The series My zombie lifewhich since September 2024 has been available not only in children’s stories, but also in comics) have planned to take a trip there on Saturday.
Mélissa Balthazar, Karyne Lavoie, Martine Labonté-Chartrand, Marc Couture, Grégoire Laforce, Natacha Bélair, Claudia Lahaie, Claire Lauzier-Deschênes, Francine Beaudin, Alberte Villeneuve, Ariane Millette and Amy Lachapelle will join them there.
Four authors – Andrée Poulin, Éric Pladeau, Claudia Lahaie and Mélissa Balthazar – will have met the Béatrice-Desloges schoolchildren the day before to talk about their literary creations.
Josée Rivard, visual arts teacher at the Academy of Arts at the Béatrice-Desloges school and comic artist in her spare time, will lead two short workshops around the creation of comic book characters (Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., then from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. registrations here).
Book collection
The high school invites visitors to contribute to its collection of non-perishable foods and used French-language children’s books.
These donations, specifies the school, will be given to the organization It was two times, which supports families in need.
Information: Orleans Book Fair
