On Thursday, April 22nd, join Beryl Young for the Victoria launch of her new book, Follow the Elephant. It’s at Ivy’s Bookstore, 2188 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, BC. For more information phone 250 598-2713.
Everyone is welcome. Entry is free!
Distinguished Mexican poet, novelist, and environmentalist, Homero Aridjis will be making an appearance at City Lights Books on Tuesday, April 6th at 7:00 pm in celebration of his new poetry collection, Solar Poems. Translator George McWhirter (The Anachronicles) will also be in attendance.
On this very special occasion, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, will read several poems from the bilingual edition of his book, WHAT IS POETRY?/QUE ES LA POESIA?, which Homero Aridjis translated.
For more information, click here.
On Wednesday, March 17th, Beryl Young (Follow the Elephant) will be speaking to students at R.J. Tait Elementary School in Richmond, BC.
Beryl Young (Follow the Elephant) will be speaking to students at Kathleen McNeely Elementary School in Richmond, BC on Monday, April 26th. http://mcneely.sd38.bc.ca/
Noting the increased interest in women’s hockey following the Canadian women’s gold medal performance in the Olympics, the Times-Colonist featured a review of Women on Ice on Sunday. The reviewer said: “Norton offers a fascinating look at the early days of women’s hockey in the West, in a readable style that will appeal to the general reader as well as history buffs, sports fans and the growing number of girls and women who play hockey.” For online version of the review, as well as a chance to WIN copies of Women on Ice and other hockey-themed books, click here.
Beryl Young will be speaking about her just-released YA novel Follow the Elephant to two classes of Grade 6 and 7 students at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary on Tuesday, March 23rd.
Ronsdale Press invites you to celebrate the launch of Follow the Elephant by Beryl Young.
The launch will take place at on Friday March 26th at Tilley Endurables, 2401 Granville St. (at 8th Ave.), Vancouver, BC, from 6:30-7:30 pm.
There will be book draws and East Indian appetizers — and it’s FREE!
Sponsored by Once Upon a Huckleberry Bush bookstore, Tilley Endurables and Ronsdale Press.
Saturday, March 13: Jean Rae Baxter (The Way Lies North) will be a guest speaker at a Brian Henry Workshop, “Writing with Style.” Tweedsmuir Presbyterian Church, 6 John Street, Orangeville, Ontario. 1:15 pm
On March 25th, Beryl Young (author of the spring 2010 young adult novel Follow the Elephant) will be at Brock House in Vancouver, BC. She’ll be speaking on the topic “India in My Life.”
Susan Dobbie (When Eagles Call, River of Gold) will be speaking at the Abbotsford Recreation Centre, 2499 McMillan Road, Abbotsford, on March 28th, from 10 am to 12 pm.
