Bio
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.