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Susan Margaret Chapman

Author, Librarian, Teacher

 

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Susan Margaret
Last Name
Chapman
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Ontario
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After graduating from the University of Toronto with an English degree, Susan, by chance, landed a summer job in the private library of Harrods Department Store in London England. Thus started her love of libraries. She has been a teacher-librarian, primary and computer teacher, and lecturer to teachers in East Africa on running school libraries.

She spends her summers at a cottage on a tiny island in the Kawarthas in Ontario, and for many years ran a children's Book Fair for the cottagers' association.

While an elementary teacher-librarian, she became interested in storytelling, and took courses from both Alice Kane and Dan Yashinsky of the Storytellers' School of Toronto. Her picture book, "Too Much Noise in the Library", a twist on a humorous folktale she has often told, is also a storytelling story, with lots of repetition and participation.
Her new picture book, "The Old Ways", is about a contemporary Inuit boy who is very into technology and is stranded with his grandparents in a storm on a snowmobile.
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School/Library visits
Publications
One Warm Day
Turtle Trails and Tales magazine, 2010

Too Much Noise in the Library
UpstartBooks, 2010
Abby Carter-illustrator

The Old Ways
Fifth House, Fitzhenry and Whiteside
2014
John Mantha-illustrator

Horses in the Snow
Cricket Magazine
Jan 2022
Other Memberships
Writers' Union of Canada, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

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