Kathy Stinson

I have just finished reading The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland. It’s Mariatu’s story of how her life in Sierra Leone was changed when the rebel army attacked her village and cut off her hands. Th...

A man carried stacks of National Geographic magazines from his truck to a table in the Deer Lake Library. They dated back to the 1950s. One issue caught my eye. The face on the cover was not one I expected to see on a NG cover. It was the April 1976 issue...

My travels as a Canadian author have taken me to every province and territory in the country. Last week returned me to the west coast our easternmost province...

But I am ready to go. To Newfoundland. On Saturday. Or I will be when… Never mind. ...

I’ve done plenty of ’shameless self-promotion’ here and would like to devote today’s post to the books of other authors I have had the pleasure to work with. Rough ...

Congratulations to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, who has beenpromoted to Officer of the Order of Canada “for her influence and contributions as a landscape architect who sets new standards of excellence through her environmentally responsible landscape designs.” Members of the Canadian Society of ...

When my gardening plans got rained out this afternoon, I opened up my copy of “Best Books for Kids & Teens” which had just arrived in my mailbox. As I always do, I turned to the index in a hopeful (and egocentric) search for my name. (”...

Last night, at the CANSCAIP Mentor’s Dinner honouring my husband, Peter Carver, I learned from Rick Wilks of Annick Press that A Pocket Can Have A Treasure In It has been short-listed for the Ruth& Sylvia Schwartz Award. ...

I asked my son the other day, “If I say ‘Cornelia Oberlander’, do you know who I mean?”He’s a busy guy, working on his MBA while working full time, so I wasn’t sure how much he took in of the book I had written about her. “Yeah, she’s the Green Roof Lady,” he said. I don’t think C...

My apologies to anyone who has gone in search of my South Africa or Europe photos, only to be asked, annoyingly,for Facebook login information...

I’ve just finished reading The Native Commissioner by Shaun Johnson (winner of the Best Book In Africa Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2007). I ...

A Pocket Can HaveA Treasure In It will be on display in a special exhibitionofrecent books for toddlers and babies, during the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) Congress in Rome in August...

Cruising down rivers and canals from Amsterdam to Budapest had its lovely moments, but the experience paled in comparison to our visit to South Africa and to my own time in Liberia in February...

I’d been told to expect elephants, giraffes, zebras, rhinos, and more. And I suspected that if we did, it would be fun. But I had no idea how exciting it would be. For fifteen years my husband’s cousin John and his wife Veda urged us to visit them in South Africa. Wh...