Don Aker
Agent: Marie Campbell

Don Aker has worked as a junior/senior language arts and mathematics teacher for the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board for over twenty years.

Jan Andrews
Agent: Marie Campbell

Jan Andrews lives at the end of a road on a lake in Lanark, Ontario. She believes this is the perfect setting for someone who is a passionate lover of the outdoors.

Bob Barton
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Educator Bob Barton is a founding member of the Storytellers School of Toronto and has been a feature storyteller at festivals across North America, England and Australia.

Steven Barwin
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Steven Barwin is a young adult author and teacher living in Toronto. Steven has a wide portfolio that includes writing for television and for interactive DVD games.

Matt Beam
Agent: Marie Campbell

Matt Beam is a young adult author, freelance journalist, photographer, and teacher living in Toronto, Ontario.

Holly Bennett
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Holly Bennett is an award-winning novelist of series fiction and novels for teens, and editor-in-chief of Today’s Parent Magazine's special editions.

Joan Bodger
Agent: Lynn Bennett

The late Joan Bodger's work in Canada included helping to found the Storytellers School of Toronto.

Karleen Bradford
Agent: Marie Campbell

Karleen Bradford has been delighting children of all ages with her writing for almost 20 years. She grew up in Argentina and travelled the world with her husband, James, a Canadian Diplomat.

Sarah S. Brannen
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Sarah S. Brannen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the University of Pennsylvania.

Donna Broder and Julie Macht
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Author and design team Donna Broder and Julie Macht have combined their expertise to create a series of interactive books for children.

Shana Burg
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Shana Burg studied public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, worked on a Mississippi hunger-relief project, taught in one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse public schools, and worked with youth internationally.

Lee Carr
Agent: Marie Campbell

Born and raised in America's midwest, Lee Carr has been living in Europe for many years. Her editorial and production credits include work at many publications including Ink and Elle. Lee's first picture book is forthcoming from Random House.

Mary Casanova
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

When it comes to writing for children, Mary Casanova is passionate about two things: writing books that matter and writing books that kids can't put down.

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

e.E. Charlton Trujillo is an award-winning novelist and independent film maker.

Amy Cohn
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Author-anthologist Amy L. Cohn is the compiler of the best-selling anthology From Sea to Shining Sea (Scholastic) which has sold more than 250,000 copies.

John Coy
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

John Coy is an award-winning author, who worked as a dishwasher, mattress maker, and tour guide before taking up writing. He's active in sports and is a member of the NBA Reading All-Star Team as part of the Read to Achieve program.

Sheilah Currie and Jill Bever
Agent: Barb Miller

Teachers Sheilah Currie and Jill Bever know that learning to read is a critical rite of passage for kids. Sought for their expertise by parents and professionals alike, they convey with panache their passion for early literacy.

Anita Daher
Agent: Marie Campbell

Anita Daher has been entrenched in the book publishing industry for several years writing books, articles and reviews, leading workshops and presentations, and has worked on the publishing end of things as a marketing director, and editor.

Rachelle Delaney
Agent: Marie Campbell

Rachelle Delaney has worked as a freelance writer, editor, and book reviewer, with publications in Canadian magazines and newspapers such as Yes Mag, Nature Canada, and the Edmonton Journal.

Angela Dorsey
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Angela Dorsey is a full-time writer living in British Columbia. Her juvenile fiction novels are action-packed and full of adventure, and many contain an element of the supernatural.

Matt Duggan
Agent: Marie Campbell

Matt Duggan was born in Alberta and grew up there and in Manitoba. After graduating from high school in Winnipeg, he alternated years of university study - four different universities in all - with years of work and travel.

Harry Endrulat
Agent: Marie Campbell

A prolific writer, editor, and publisher in his own right, Harry Endrulat has worked in the book industry for many years.

Kathleen Ernst
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Kathleen Ernst is an Edgar-nominated author of historical fiction for children.

Cary Fagan
Agent: Marie Campbell

Cary Fagan is a highly acclaimed, award-winning author of picture books and novels for kids, as well as novels and anthologies for adults.

Lesley Fairfield
Agent: Samantha Haywood

Lesley Fairfield, a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, began her career in children’s illustration.

Christine Ford
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Christine Ford grew up in the beautiful Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, but now lives close to the Trinity River on which Ft. Worth, Texas was established.

Priscilla Galloway
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Priscilla Galloway, Ph.D, has been a full-time author since 1993. Too Young to Fight: Memories from our Youth During World War II, won the major international Bologna Ragazzi award in 2000, the first Canadian book to do so.

Leslie Garrett
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Passionate and professional, Leslie Garrett is a national award-winning journalist and editor. She is the author of eleven books for children, as well as two syndicated columns and a book for adults.

Maureen Garvie
Agent: Marie Campbell

Maureen Garvie is a young adult author who also teaches writing to young adults. She is an instructor at Queen's University's Writing Centre and an editor for McGill-Queen's University Press.

Natale Ghent
Agent: Marie Campbell

Natale Ghent is an award-winning author and journalist. She has been writing stories and poems since she was a very young girl and hopes to continue until she is a very old woman.

John Grandits
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

John Grandits has worked in publishing most of his life. As a designer and art director, he's attacked adult trade, college text, scholarly, juvenile trade and juvenile text books.

Linda Granfield
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Linda Granfield has an instinct for writing about topics that fascinate and inform young people. This coupled with an award-winning style has made her one of the top non-fiction writers in North America.

Vicki Grant
Agent: Marie Campbell

Vicki Grant began as a copywriter and next conquered children's television, writing for series such as Theodore Tugboat, Big Comfy Couch, Sesame Park and Skinnamarink TV.

Rita Gray
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Rita Gray's love of children has been the one constant of her life. Raised in Southern California, with three younger sisters, Rita moved north to Berkeley, where she ran an After School Program.

Angel Guerra
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Award-winning book designer Angel Guerra is bringing his expertise into the multi-faceted world of picture books.

Erin Haley
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Having put pen to paper for as long as she can remember, Erin Haley was also a dancer and dance instructor for over eight years.

Kris Hirschmann
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Kris Hirschmann specializes in translating difficult topics into text that is easy to understand and kid-friendly.

Linda Holeman
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Linda honed her instincts for writing growing up in Manitoba, in a family that told a lot of stories, usually after supper around the table.

Lisa Horstman
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Lisa Horstman began her children’s book career in 1994, when she was awarded the Dr. Seuss Picture book Award for writing and illustrating her picture book submission, Fast Friends.

Johanna Hurwitz
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Johanna Hurwitz is the author of more than 60 books for young readers.

Rick Jacobson and Laura Fernandez
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Rick Jacobson and Laura Fernandez have achieved great success in advertising and publishing over the past twenty years.

Barbara Johansen Newman
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Before writing and illustrating, Barbara Johansen Newman was an award winning soft sculpture artist, exhibiting in craft galleries throughout the US and Canada.

Kim Kane
Agent: Marie Campbell

Kim Kane was born in London in a bed bequeathed by Wordsworth for “…a writer, a dancer or a poet”. Despite this auspicious beginning, she went on to study law.

Ibi Kaslik
Agent: Shaun Bradley

Ibi Kaslik is a New York Times betselling author and poet, and occasional freelance journalist.

Bev Katz Rosenbaum
Agent: Marie Campbell

Toronto-based Bev Katz Rosenbaum is a novelist, award-winning editor and critic.

Edward Kay
Agent: Marie Campbell

Michael Arvaaluk Kusugak
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Award-winning Inuit author Michael Kusugak lives in Rankin Inlet. A story teller from a rich oral tradition, Michael also worked for the government for 15 years.

Susan Laidlaw
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Susan Laidlaw has twenty years experience as a teacher and counselor in schools and clinical settings around the world.

Patricia Lakin
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Patricia Lakin, an award-winning author, has written more than forty books for children.

Deb Loughead
Agent: Marie Campbell

Deb Loughead, a Toronto author, poet and workshop leader, has been writing since she learned how to read.

John Lunn
Agent: Lynn Bennett

John Lunn grew up in Ontario. His father was a journalism professor and his mother, Janet Lunn, is a successful children's book author. John now resides in New Hampshire.

Carol Matas
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Carol Matas is an internationally acclaimed author of over thirty novels for children and young adults.

Sylvia McNicoll
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Sylvia McNicoll is praised her for her uncanny knowledge of the way young people think, talk and act. After graduating from Concordia, she worked in corporate finance before staying at home to raise her three children and connecting with writing again.

Marilyn Mets and Peter Ledwon
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Marilyn Mets and Peter Ledwon collaborate to write and illustrate children's books and are co-Art Directors for Today's Parent Toronto magazine.

Craig Moodie
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Craig Moodie has worked as an advertising copywriter in New York City and Boston and as a deckhand on commercial fishing vessels in the waters off Cape Cod.

Mary Nethery
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Mary Nethery is the author of six picture books including Nubs (Little Brown); Two Bobbies (Walker Books); Hannah and Jack (Atheneum); Orange Cat Goes to Market (Candlewick Press); and Mary Veronica's Egg (Orchard Books).

Barbara Nickel
Agent: Marie Campbell

Barbara Nickel is novelist and poet whose work, whether she is writing for children or for adults, draws notable acclaim. She is a resident of British Columbia.

Perry Nodelman
Agent: Marie Campbell

Perry Nodelman has been writing children’s books for about 10 years. As well as his own Young Adult fiction, he has collaborated with award-winning writer, Carol Matas, on a science fiction series.

Tabitha Olson
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Tabitha Olson received an Honorable Mention in the Children’s Fiction area of the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition and is an active member of SCBWI.

Liam O'Donnell
Agent: Marie Campbell

Liam O'Donnell writes fiction and non-fiction for young readers. In ten years of writing for children, his work has appeared in books, magazines, newspapers and on television screens across North America and Europe.

Debora Pearson
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Whether she is calling up the excitement of trucks for toddlers or introducing older reader to exotic people and places, Debora Pearson's writing captures the images and ideas that matter most to kids.

Kit Pearson
Agent: Marie Campbell

The acclaimed writing of children's author Kit Pearson has been published throughout North America and the world.

Caroline Pignat
Agent: Marie Campbell

Born in Dublin, Ireland and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Caroline Pignat calls both “home”. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Religious Studies.

Joanne Proulx
Agent: Samantha Haywood

Joanne Proulx has had short stories published in literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including Exile: The Literary Quarterly, and Upstairs at Duroc.

Phyllis Root
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Phyllis Root has been writing for children since 1979 and has published more than forty books, most of them picture books.

Roger Roth
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Roger Roth's work ranges from writing and illustrating his own picture books to illustrating middle grade nonfiction to creating editorial cartoons for national newpapers.

Laura Purdie Salas
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Laura Purdie Salas is the author of more than 25 books for children. Most of all, Ms. Salas loves to write poetry. Funny, serious, rhyming, free verse…she loves it all.

Estelle Salata
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Avid sports enthusiast, author Estelle Salata is an editor, photographer, writer, and teacher of creative writing.

Pat Schmatz
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Pat Schmatz grew up in rural Wisconsin, knowing that the only thing she wanted was to be a writer. She detoured to obtain degrees in psychology and physical education.

Barbara Shoup
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Barbara Shoup is the author of six novels including Night Watch, Wish You Were Here, Stranded in Harmony and Faithful Women and two non-fiction book co-authored with Margaret-Love Denman on writing.

Sharon Siamon
Agent: Lynn Bennett

With more than a million books published worldwide, Sharon Siamon is one of Canada's most prolific writers of teen fiction.

Andy Spearman
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Andy Spearman would rather be a rock star. But one thing led to another, and now he’s married with three kids. Before all that, he moved to London to see if they needed any rock stars over there.

Joanne Stanbridge
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Joanne Stanbridge is an accomplished children's author and illustrator. She is a reference librarian at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library.

Jeff Szpirglas
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Jeff Szpirglas has had a varied career. He’s shovelled manure, worked in a steelyard (he hails from Hamilton, after all), and even frolicked in the offices at CTV Television and Chirp, chickaDEE, and OWL magazines.

Nikki Tate
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Nikki Tate is a bestselling children's series author and storyteller based in British Columbia.

Cora Taylor
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Cora Taylor is one of Canada's best-known children's authors, having published more than a dozen juvenile novels.

Jennifer Thermes
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Jennifer Thermes is a picture book author and illustrator. Her second book, Sam Bennett’s New Shoes, was named a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book for 2007.

Andrea Torrey Balsara
Agent: Marie Campbell

Andrea Torrey Balsara is a singer, performer, writer and illustrator. She works to create stories that resonate with children and make them think, laugh, cry and dig deep to find the treasure within themselves.

Teresa Toten
Agent: Marie Campbell

Teresa Toten holds an M.A. in Political Economy from the University of Toronto. She wrote and broadcast for Radio Canada International while residing in Montreal, and has worked and lived in Ottawa and New York.

Don Trembath
Agent: Marie Campbell

Don Trembath is a prolific author of novels for teens and pre-teens, including The Tuesday Cafe, Rooster, and Hypnotized.

Maxine Trottier
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Maxine Trottier is a prolific writer of many award winning children's picture books. Her Métis roots reach back to Fort Detroit in the mid 18th century.

Nancy Van Laan
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Clare Vanderpool
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Clare Vanderpool has been a reader since she was five and a writer since she was six. Ever since her first grade story was selected for publication in her school newspaper she had the bug.

Ginger Wadsworth
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Ginger Wadsworth is the author of over twenty books for children. Many of her books promote awareness of the natural world, its animals, and the people who have worked to preserve it.

Eric Walters
Agent: Marie Campbell

The many novels by Eric Walters have won numerous awards including UNESCO's international award for Literature in the Service of Tolerance.

Thomas Wharton
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Thomas Wharton earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Calgary.

Karen Lynn Williams
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Karen Lynn Williams is the author of a dozen books for children and teaches writing at the graduate level. A former Peace Corps volunteer, she active in her community as a volunteer working with refugees.

Welwyn Wilton Katz
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Welwyn Wilton Katz, a former math teacher, is the award-winning author of many books for teenagers. Welwyn’s plots interweave historical and mystical themes within the context of modern day to day life.

Frieda Wishinsky
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Frieda Wishinsky loves humour, history and exploring new ways to tell a story. In her presentations, she uses drama, group participation, chants and storytelling to engage her audience.

Pam Withers
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Pam Withers has spent over twenty years in the magazine and newspaper publishing business and is a former whitewater kayak slalom racer and raft guide.