Superstar Storytellers Summer Series!

Presented by the public libraries of Durham and York Region. Join us this summer for four spectacular virtual children’s author visits.

Gordon Korman and Sayantani DasGupta

July 6^th at 4:30 pm  Register on Eventbrite

Tracey West and Vicky Fang

July 20^th at 4:30 pm  Register on Eventbrite

Justin A. Reynolds and Pablo Leon

August 3^rd at 7:00 pm  Register on Eventbrite

Jess Keating, Aron Nels Steinke and Katy Farina

August 17^th at 7:00 pm  Register on Eventbrite

Have a question for one of our superstar authors? Submit it here and it may get selected to be asked during one of our events!

Get your game on with Superstar Storyteller BINGO. Print off or pick up your BINGO card from your local library. Complete a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line for each card. That’s a BINGO!

Submit all your completed cards by email or curbside pickup to your library by August 13, 2021 for our special BINGO draw! Remember to log your name, email, and all the activities you completed so we know how to contact you if you win.

The first card will be available with your TD SRC materials! New cards will be released at every Superstar Author Event so keep an eye out!

Calling all artists! That means you. Our Superstar Storytellers are coming to visit soon, and we want to welcome them with tons of art from you! We want you to send in photos of your drawings, paintings, sculptures, chalk art, or comics in celebration of our visiting authors. Not quite finished their books? No problem!

Here are some prompts to get you going.

• Let’s see your best Spider-Man comic for Justin A. Reynolds and Pablo Leon
• Can you draw a blobfish? How about an axolotl or a shark? Jess Keating would love to see them!
• Can you build a robot out of Lego? Vicky Fang adores her Friendbots!
• Paint yourself riding a dragon! Tracey West is the dragon expert.
• Sayantani DasGupta’s characters fight monsters in alternate dimensions. How would you look as a mythical superhero?
• Do you love the Babysitters Club? Katy Farina wants to see you as an awesome babysitter!
• Draw you and your friends as animals for Aron Nels Steinke!

How to Submit

Submit your artwork for our July authors by Friday, July 2^nd for the chance to have your artwork featured in our Superstar Storytellers preshow! Our July Superstar Storytellers are Gordon Korman, Sayantani DasGupta, Tracey West, and Vicky Fang.

Submit your artwork for our August authors by Monday, August 2^nd for the chance to have your artwork featured in our Superstar Storytellers preshow! Our August Superstar Storytellers are Justin A. Reynolds, Pablo Leon, Jess Keating, Katy Farina, and Aron Nels Steinke

Please send art submissions by email to our friend Ariana at Markham Public Library, at aferrone@markham.library.on.ca

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