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Ahoy! Here be a short clip from our interview with award-winning author/illustrator Alma Fullerton.

Alma shares information about her writing and diorama processes, her new releases, recurring themes in her work, as well as insights into what it was like growing up with anxiety and dyslexia.

Learn more about Alma Fullerton via her website: http://www.almafullerton.com

Some of the books mentioned:

Title: Pockets Full of Sea Glass
Author: Alma Fullerton
Publisher: Acorn Press
ISBN: 9781773661483
Price: $14.95

The Journal of Anxious Izzy Parker
Author: Alma Fullerton
Publisher: Second Story Press
ISBN: 9781772603163
Price: $10.95

Flipping Forward Twisting Backward
Author: Alma Fullerton
Publisher: Peachtree Press
ISBN: 9781682633663
Price: $16.99

KidLit Cove founder Judith Graves interviews children's book author Hope Dalvay and illustrator Kate Chisholm about their new release, The Multiplication Rap published with Acorn Press.  

Summary: Do multiplication facts look like a jumble of numbers to you? Does the thought of memorizing all those answers make you blue?  Well, there's no need to fret. This book will teach you a song you won?t soon forget.  It's called "The Multiplication Rap" And it makes multiplying a snap!

For more information about Hope Dalvay: 

Instagram: @hopedalvay  

For more information about Kate Chisholm: 

Instagram: @themousetowncollective_

The Multiplication Rap 

Hope Dalvay (author) Kate Chisholm (illustrator)

ISBN: 978-1773661001 

Price: $14.95 

Publisher: Acorn Press

KidLit Cove founder Judith Graves interviews children's book author Lana Shupe about her new releases, The Lonely Little Lighthouse (Nimbus, 2023) and The Hippie Pirates (Running the Goat, 2023).  

The Lonely Little Lighthouse 

Summary: A heartfelt picture book about a neglected lighthouse and the small coastal community that comes together to make her light shine again, featuring informative backmatter.

The Lonely Little Lighthouse 

Words by Lana Shupe and art by Marla Lesage 

ISBN: 9781774710449 

Price: $19.95 

Publisher: Nimbus 

The Hippie Pirates 

Summary: This time-travelling adventure, the first in a planned series, introduces young readers to some unique aspects of Canadian and Nova Scotian history, including the establishment of Birchtown and the plight of Black Loyalists.

Words by Lana Shupe and art by Caroline Clarke 

ISBN: 9781998802043 

Price: $15.99 

Publisher: Running the Goat Books and Broadsides 

KidLit Cove founder, Judith Graves, speaks with Atlantic Canadian author and historian, AJB Johnston about his recent middle-grade fiction release with Acorn Press, INTO THE WIND: A Novel of Acadian Resilience.   

Book Summary: A gusty August morning … two children spot sails on the horizon … foreign soldiers enter their village. Johnston holds the reader close with this moving tale. The main characters, Marie and Charles, are fictional, but the story is not. It is based on well-documented historical facts about the 1755 removal of Acadians from Grand-Pré. Into the Wind presents that well-known event in a fresh way. It makes for a poignant, suspenseful novel about how two kids and a village deal with forces and events far beyond their control. 

 Author Bio: A.J.B. (John or Jay) Johnston is the author or co-author of thirteen books on different aspects of the history of Atlantic Canada and over 100 articles in scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers. The Canadian Historical Association awarded a Clio prize to his Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory and the Despair of Louisbourg’s Last Decade. John was made a chevalier of France’s Ordre des Palmes académiques in recognition of his many publications on the history of the French in Atlantic Canada. His first novel, Thomas, A Secret Life, was published in 2012. He lives in Halifax with his wife Mary. 

For more information, please go to www.ajbjohnston.com. 

Into the Wind 

AJB Johnston

ISBN: 9781773661254 

Price: $14.95