Angela Ahn

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Angela Ahn

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Home Location: Vancouver, BC

Creator Type: Author

Genres: Middle-grade fiction

Website: www.angelaahnbooks.com

Tour Region: Alberta (Calgary Metropolitan Region)

Target Audience: Grades 3 - 8

Cost: $300* (for one 60-minute presentation)

*(The author collects $250 of the fee and $50 of the fee covers The Canadian Children's Book Centre's administration fees for coordinating Book Week).

Taxes charged on presentations: YES

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Ahn is a former teacher and librarian. She is the author of several children's books, including Swimming Into Trouble, The Big Splash, Team Park, Krista Kim-Bap, and Peter Lee's Notes from the Field, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the OLA Silver Birch Award, and was named a USBBY Outstanding International Book. She lives in Vancouver, BC, with her family.

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS

Setting the Mood (Writing Workshop)

Target audience: Grades 3-4

Maximum group size: ONE class (maximum: 30 students)

Join Angela Ahn on a journey to Vancouver as she shows you the real life setting that inspired the Julia on the Go! series. She will walk you through how she used real settings as a launching point to dive into the setting in this series. Actual diving boards were involved. Students will have a chance to use visual prompts to create their own dynamics settings.

Required equipment: Screen with HDMI cable to project PowerPoint presentation connected to my personal computer OR a school computer that I can use to project the PowerPoint presentation (I will have a copy of presentations on saved on a USB flash drive); microphone for large spaces

Setting the Mood (Modified for presentation only, no writing workshop)

Target audience: Grades 3-6

Maximum group size: 70 - 80 students (3 or 4 classes)

Join Angela Ahn on a journey to Vancouver as she shows you the real life setting that inspired the Julia on the Go! series. She will walk you through how she used real settings as a launching point to dive into the setting in this series. Real diving boards were involved. We will look at settings, both intimate and expansive and talk about how the smallest details can really make a story more vivid for readers.

Virtual Road Tripping (Presentation)

Target audience: Grades 4 - 6

Maximum group size: max 70-80 students (3 or 4 classes)

Did you know that Peter Lee’s Notes from the Field was inspired by a real road trip that Angela Ahn took with her family? You don’t need to all pile into the minivan, instead, go on a virtual journey with Angela as she takes you from Vancouver to Drumheller.

*Best suited for students in provinces other than BC and Alberta.

Who Controls What You Read?

Target audience: Grades 5 - 8

Maximum group size: 70 - 80 students (3 or 4 classes)

Studies all show how important literacy is to a child’s emotional and academic success. But beyond why it’s important for children to read, Angela Ahn talks about barriers in publishing that make it hard for children of colour to truly see themselves in books. Is “literacy” truly equitable and accessible to all young Canadians? In this presentation, Angela Ahn will talk about real experiences she’s had dealing with racism first-hand in publishing and why it’s been important to her to keep writing diverse books, no matter how difficult it has been.

BOOK LIST

The Big Splash (Julia on the Go! Book 2), February 2025.

Team Park. Tundra / Penguin Random House Canada, 2024.

Swimming into Trouble (Julia on the Go! - Book 1), Tundra / Penguin Random House Canada, 2024.

Double O Stephen and the Ghostly Realm. Tundra / Penguin Random House Canada, 2022.

Peter Lee's Notes From the Field. Tundra / Penguin Random House Canada, 2021.

Krista Kim-Bap. Second Story Press, 2018.

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