Proceeds from Book Fair allow us to invite talented Canadian authors, illustrators and storytellers to RPPS to conduct workshops for the students.
Past guest author Kenneth Oppel reads from PEG AND THE YETI
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)
