{"id":2827,"date":"2023-01-25T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:48:11","slug":"breakfast-speaker-may-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-may-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Speaker May 20, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jennifer Maruno <\/strong>\u00a0began her publishing career with award winning educational materials for The Peel District School Board and the Ontario Ministry of Education. She is one of the authors of Explorations, a mathematics program for Addison-Wesley of Canada, and worked with TVO in developing teaching materials for the television show Mathica\u2019s Mathshop. For her contributions to educational writing, she received the Federation of Women Teachers Writing Award, the National Council of Teachers Award of Excellence and The Award of Merit from the National School Public Relations Association. She holds a Masters of Education, Principal\u2019s and Primary Specialists certification and is a graduate of the Institute of Children\u2019s Literature and the Humber School of Writers summer program.Her short stories have appeared in a variety of children\u2019s magazines in Great Britain, United States and Canada. Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Jennifer came from a book loving family. She worked as a library helper in the old red brick library on Victoria Avenue while attending Valley Way Public school. Her childhood ambition was to have a book with her name on the spine sitting on the shelf.Her first children\u2019s novel,\u00a0When the Cherry Blossoms Fell<\/a>\u00a0won nominations for the Hackmatack and Young Readers of Canada Awards.Educator, researcher and author, Jennifer Maruno knows stories provide much more than entertainment. From the pages of Canadian history, she creates novels empathetic to those who have experienced the darker side of our past. Maruno\u2019s understanding of the importance of cultural identity has brought When the Cherry Blossoms Fell,\u00a0Cherry Blossom Winter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cherry Blossom Baseball<\/a>\u00a0based on the Japanese Internment and\u00a0Warbird<\/a>\u00a0a novel of early Jesuit life among the Huron people.Details of\u00a0Kid Soldier<\/a>, Jennifer\u2019s fourth novel for children, come from her father\u2019s diary. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces under age and set out for England. Enroute Britain declared war.\u00a0Totem<\/a>, the story of a boy seeking his identity from the confines of a residential school, was written at a time most necessary to Truth & ReconciliationJennifer lives in Burlington, Ontario with her husband spending her time weeding her David Austin roses, writing and reading to grandchildren.Laurel Keating is an award-winning artist whose illustrations are familiar to Newfoundlanders. With an eye for detail and sympathy for all living things, Laurel brings her characters to life with warmth and humour. Children have delighted in her rich and colourful illustrations in Find Scruncheon and Touton (1 and 2) and Yaffle\u2019s Journey and Full Speed Ahead: Errol\u2019s Bell Island Adventure. She lives in scenic Portugal Cove, which she has called home all her life.<\/p>\n

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