APPLY TO HOST SID SHARP IN ONTARIO

APPLY TO HOST SID SHARP IN NOVA SCOTIA (VIRTUALLY)

Home Location: Toronto, Ontario 

Creator Type: Author, illustrator

Genres: Early chapter books, middle-grade fiction, graphic novels

Website: www.sidsharp.com

Tour Region: Ontario (in person and virtually) / Nova Scotia (virtually)

Target Audience: Kindergarten - Adults  

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

*(The author-illustrator 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

Sid Sharp is an artist and illustrator from Toronto who makes drawings, paintings, and comics. Their interests include folklore, horror stories, mysterious and unknowable things, and finding good sticks for their stick collection. Sid went to OCAD University, works in a bookstore, and published The Wolf Suit, their first graphic novel for kids, with Annick Press in 2022. Their new book with Annick, Bog Myrtle, came out in October 2024.

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS 

Drawing from Nature (workshop)

Target audience: Kindergarten to Grade 6

Ideal group size: 20 students

Maximum group size: 30 students (with help from a teacher or two)

Join Sid for a workshop where we look at the pieces of nature that exist all around us and explore ways to lovingly document, preserve, and care for the things we find (while leaving them where they belong). Participants will draw and write about their chosen treasures and the surrounding environment, sparking stories to tell and coming away with fun games and activities for interacting with the natural world.

Required equipment: Sid will provide the treasures and examples (this activity works better in person)

Required materials: plain or colourful paper, markers, pencil crayons

Radical Reads (On Organizing and Children’s Literature)

Target audience: teachers, librarians, interested adults, bookish children 

Ideal group size: a full room

Maximum group size: flexible; my preference is to offer this talk in-person but it could be adapted to be given in a virtual format

Join Sid for a presentation about social progress and organizing presented through children’s literature. We’ll highlight some favourites and chat about the myth of kids being “too young” for books with big ideas. 

Required equipment: microphone, projector, screen 

Required materials: N/A

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Wolf Suit. Written and illustrated by Sid Sharp. Annick Press, 2022.

Bog Myrtle. Written and illustrated by Sid Sharp. Annick Press, 2024.