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Sonja Dunn

Author/Performer

401-335 Mill Road
Toronto, ON
M9C 1Y6
Phone: (416) 626-8283
Web: http://www.dodocybe/sonja.htm

Biography

Sonja Dunn was born in and lives in Toronto, attended 14 elementary schools across Canada, then Mimico High School, and received her B.A. and M.Ed. degrees from Laurentian University and the University of Toronto respectively. A former teacher and drama consultant, she began a television career with Mid-Canada TV--a CBC and CTV affiliate broadcast out of Sudbury, Ontario, for 29 years.She writes, produces, and hosts TV shows on the arts for Rogers Cablesystems. She is a former president of CANSCAIP.

Published Works

All Together Now; 200 of Sonja Dunn's best chants, Pembroke Publishers, 1999
Uncivilizing, Insomniac Press, 1997
Keeping Fit: Let Me Read Series, Ontario, Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., 1994
Gimmie a Break, Rattlesnake, Stoddart Publishing Co., 1994; illus. Mark Thurman
Primary Rhymery, Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1993; illus. Mark Thurman
Beauty and the Beast Rap, Moonstone Press, 1993; illus. Susan Darrach
Rapunzel's Rap, Moonstone Press, 1992; illus. Andrea Wayne von Konigslow
Crackers and Crumbs, Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1990
Butterscotch Dreams, Pembroke Publishers limited, 1987

Recorded Works

Sonja Dunn on Tape, Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1994; audio cassette
Chanting with Sonja Dunn, Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1993; videotape

Awards

Sister Maris Stella Award, Northern Ontario Council of Teachers of English, 1989
Arts Award, Sudbury Arts Festival Association, 1978
Drama Scholarship Award, Banff School of Fine Arts, 1969