Proceeds from Book Fair allow us to invite talented Canadian authors, illustrators and storytellers to RPPS to conduct workshops for the students.

2018 guests

• poet, songwriter and musician Mehdi Cayenne
• storyteller Kim Kilpatrick
• storyteller and folk musician Louis Mercier
• storyteller Jennifer Cayley
• illustrator and graphic novelist Josephine Rioux
• storyteller and musician Sébastien Lemay
• Ottawa’s English Poet Laureate Just Jamaal the Poet
• author and performer Rachel Eugster
• librarian and storyteller Sonia Doyon of the Ottawa Public Library Rockcliffe Park branch

2017 guests

• author Menna Glyn Andrews
• storyteller Jennifer Cayley
• illustrateur France Cormier
• author Denise Chong
• Catherine English
• author and performer Rachel Eugster
• auteur Joanne Lecuyer
• authors Sylvia and Franco Picciano

2016 guests

• author Menna Glyn Andrews
• author Catherine Austen
• illustrateur France Cormier
• author and performer Rachel Eugster
• author and educator Kimberly Gordon
• auteur Joanne Lecuyer
• author and educator Cathryn Morgan
• authors Sylvia and Franco Picciano
• author-illustrator Josephine Rioux

2015 guests

• author Kathy Clark
• illustrateur France Cormier
• author and performer Rachel Eugster
• spoken-word artist and performer Mehdi Hamdad
• author Kate Jaimet
• illustrateur Marc Keelan-Bishop
• storyteller Kim Kilpatrick
• auteur Michel Lavoie
• authors Sylvia and Franco Picciano
• auteur Gilles Plante
• raconteur Daniel Richer

Other past visitors have included:

• award-winning author Kenneth Oppel (The Boundless, the Airborn series, Peg and the Yeti and many other books)
• poet Dennis Lee (Melvis & Elvis, Garbage Delight and scores of other books)
• illustrator Wallace Edwards (The Cat’s Pajamas, Monkey Business, Alphabeasts)
• local novelist Joan McCurdy (The Serpent’s Egg trilogy)