Caroline Adderson

Readings

Elementary
Caroline’s interactive 60-minute presentations are for groups of up to 60 students based on a specific book: I, Bruno; Bruno For Real or Very Serious Children. The presentation includes a reading, games and activities, a question period, and a book signing. Writing activities can also be included. Books may be purchased in advance at a discount, though advanced notice is needed to arrange for this.

High School
Caroline’s presentations at the high school level include readings from her teen and adult fiction, discussion of the creative process, a question period and a book signing. Books may be purchased in advance at a discount, though advanced notice is needed to arrange for this.

**Primary presentation is available for French Immersion students.

Book Sales:

Copies of books can be brought to be sold and autographed.

Workshops

Caroline offers writing workshops for teens, which she developed for the Teen Book Camp during her tenure as the 2008 Vancouver Public Library Writer-in-Residence. She can lead a single 2-hour workshop, or a more extensive week-long series of workshops. Topics include: Mining Your Childhood, Noticing and Recording, Art as Inspiration, Developing Characters and Becoming a Writer. Each session includes writing exercises, small group activities, teen-friendly readings and lively discussions.

Book Sales:

Copies of books can be brought to be sold and autographed.

Biography

Caroline Adderson is the author of three books for children. Very Serious Children, a novel for middle readers about two brothers, the sons of clowns, who run away from the circus, won the 2008 Diamond Willow Award and was nominated for the 2009 Rocky Mountain Book Award. I, Bruno, a collection of stories for emerging readers featuring seven year-old Bruno and his true life adventures, was nominated for a 2008-2009 Chocolate Lily Book Award and the 2009 Shining Willow Award. Its sequel, Bruno For Real, was published in 2009. Forthcoming are two novels for the primary set, Jasper John Dooley, Star of the Week and Jasper John Dooley, Left Behind, a teen novella, Film Studies, as well as a middle-grade novel, The Absconders.

Caroline also writes for adults. Her novels and short stories – Bad Imaginings, A History of Forgetting, Sitting Practice, Pleased to Meet You – have won two Ethel Wilson Fiction Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, as well as the 2006 Marion Engel Award given annually to an outstanding female writer in mid-career. Her numerous nominations include the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

Caroline lives in Vancouver, B.C. with her husband and the son who lied to her when he promised he’d always be seven. He’s eleven now and he and his many friends continue to inspire her children’s writing.