Book of Spells Bibliography

Anne Renaud is an award-winning children’s author who writes in both French and English. Her more than 20 publications feature picture books for kids aged four to eight and historical non-fiction books for nine- to twelve-year-olds. Her titles include:  Albertine Petit-Brindamour déteste les choux de Bruxelles, The Boy who Invented the Popsicle: The Cool Science Behind Frank Epperson's Famous Frozen Treat and Mr. Crum’s Potato Predicament.  Anne has also been a long-time contributor to children’s magazines, such as Highlights, Pockets, Cricket, Orbit, Spider and Blast Off. Anne lives and writes in Westmount, Quebec.

"Bunmi Laditan is a writer living in Montreal. She has three children, two cats, and two guinea pigs." 

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Catherine Austen writes books for all ages. Her latest is a picture book, When the Squirrels Stole my Sister, illustrated by Sean Cassidy. Catherine’s teen novel All Good Children won the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and her middle-grade comedy 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6 won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s Literature. Catherine also writes short stories for adults, published in a dozen literary journals including The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly. She lives in Gatineau, Quebec. Learn more at CatherineAusten.com.

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Lori Weber is the author of nine young adult novels, including The Ribbon Leaf (Red Deer Press), a historical novel set in WWII; Yellow Mini (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), a novel in verse; and Deep Girls (Dancing Cat Books), a short-story collection. She has also published two middle grade novels, Lightning Lou (Dancing Cat Books) and Picture Me (James Lorimer), as well as one picture book, My Granny Loves Hockey (Simply Read Books). She has also published short fiction, poetry and non-fiction in several Canadian literary journals. She holds a BA in Creative Writing and English from Concordia University, an MA in English from Acadia University, and a Diploma in Education from McGill. A native Montrealer, she lived for several years in Atlantic Canada where she taught English in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Upon returning to Montreal in 1994, she taught English at Vanier College before moving to John Abbott College in 1996, a position she retired from in 2020. She has delivered workshops in writing for teens through the Quebec Writers’ Federation, and has been their young adult fiction mentor for many years. She has represented Quebec twice for TD Canadian Book Week and has been offering classroom workshops around Quebec as a member of the Culture-in-the-Schools and Artists Inspire Programs since 2005. She currently lives in Dorval, Quebec, where she takes inspiration from beautiful Lac Saint Louis which is at her doorstep, and which she loves to photograph daily.

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Children's author, illustrator and workshop facilitator Sandra Dumais lives and works in Montreal, QC (but still sometimes pines for her hometown of Toronto). She left the world of Graphic Design in 2013 and has been working as an illustrator ever since. She is mostly self-taught, though she is always taking classes and learning new things. She also teaches classes in schools, libraries and online, about drawing and telling our own stories through comics. (By the way - making comics is a great way to get through a tough time, you should try it!) Her favourite picture books are about brave and quirky kids and animals, and their unusual families. Her favourite mediums are pencils, gouache, digital collage, and acrylic paint.
Her picture book work won the prestigious Prix des Libraires (Bookseller's award) in Quebec in both 2020 and 2021, and her daily comic Staying In, documenting the first 100 days of the Global Pandemic has earned her an interview with CBC Arts. In her free time, you can find her wandering the parks and alleys of Montreal with her family and their rescue dog, reading all kinds of books (sometimes at the same time!) and painting at the Pointe St-Charles Art School. 

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Born in an area where the waters run deep, in the heart of a majestic setting surrounded by dizzying cliffs, Annie is a wielder of words who loves spinning ideas into gold.
With more than 15 years of professional writing experience under her belt, she has a knack for explaining even the most complicated topics with elegance and skill. However, the thing she loves the most is writing stories that take readers of all ages on a journey.

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A passionate elementary school teacher, Patricia has been answering student questions as a member of Alloprof’s direct services team for many years. She is notably the author of the popular text on Minecraft.

Laurie is a high school French teacher. She has been involved with the Alloprof organization since 2016, answering student queries and serving as part of our team of teachers; she also became a French subject specialist in 2019. Books have always been one of the great joys of her life, and it is her mission to share her love of reading with others through the Book of Spells game.

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Sarah-Anne is a high school French teacher who has loved reading and writing ever since she was a little girl. She has been a dedicated contributor to our Book of Spells repertoire since 2018.

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Bianca Rousseau-Scimone is a high school French teacher. She joined the Alloprof team in 2021 as a French content producer. In her daily life, just as in her writing, she wishes to share her great passion for language and literature.
 

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