✨Professional Update ✨
Thrilled to share that I've joined the team at Scholastic as Manager, Business Development Strategy, School Market (Book Fairs). Couldn't be more excited to be working with this incredible team.📚🍁
On June 1, 1972, Godspell opened at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. No one in the audience knew that they were seeing a group of unknown actors who would change comedy forever and go on to win Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tonys.
Let's learn more!
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The secret to getting kids reading is the same thing that worked in the nineties. Reading Rainbow. Free pizzas. Shakespeare rom-coms. A million Jane Austen adaptations. Movies where a guy gifts his beloved an enormous library. Dog who acts out the classics.
On this day in 1986, Canadian author Robert Munsch released his book Love You Forever.
One of the most successful children's books ever written, it is beloved by generations of Canadians and others worldwide.
Let's learn more about it (and try not to cry)!
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Simone de Beauvoir, asked about her extremely hard-working, highly disciplined creative habits, which involve:
+ 2-3 months of vacation per year
+ Starting work at 10am, and going until 1pm, then taking a four hour break for friends
+ She does work in the evening, but she also goes to see Sartre
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I can smell the smoke coming out of certain people's ears...
Here are some of our favorite collective names for animals:
a murder of crows
a tuxedo of penguins
a bask of crocodiles
a destruction of cats
a tower of giraffes
a parliament of owls
a cackle of hyenas
a smack of jellyfish
an ambush of tigers
a wisdom of wombats
National Bird Day is January 5th. Celebrate by reading Chickadee Criminal Mastermind
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@KidsCanPress our @wccpba pick this week! @WLA_School@WALIBASSN
Tonight the #CNTower will be lit red, white and green for Christmas Day. Merry Christmas! / Ce soir la #TourCN sera illuminée en rouge, blanc et vert pour le jour de Noël. Joyeux Noël!
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