2021 Rockcliffe Park Book Fair Storytelling Series – November 15 & 16

SEE VIDEO HERE

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Each class will have 1 or 2 storytellers (French and English) present, via Zoom, over the course of 2 days.  This is the beginning of our 60^th Anniversary Celebrations.

The Principal at RPPS will have the opportunity to invite other schools to join in on the storytelling sessions.

The Storytellers who will be presenting are:

English

• Mary Wiggin
• Kathie Kompass

Support Material from Kathie Kompass found HERE and HERE

• Jennifer Cailey
• Janet LeRoy

French

• Lorraine Jeansonne

Support Material from Lorraine Jeansonne found HERE

• Capitaine Bonnefemme
• Le Pére Garneau
• Marie Robertson

We would like to thank Sezlik.com and the Ottawa Children’s Festival de la jeunesse for sponsoring this series, making it possible for RPPS Book Fair to offer it for free to our students and other invited schools.  The Festival is presenting the OCF Mini-Festival of the Arts November 19-21, 2021 at the Canadian War Museum. (Tickets are on sale now at https://ottawachildrensfestival.ca/)

We would like to thank Ottawa Storytellers (https://www.ottawastorytellers.ca/)  for helping plan this wonderful event for our students!

Instructions on how to pin a speaker using Google Meet CAN BE FOUND HERE!

Every year, 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)