Orchard's Smelly Pirates

Eric Orchard's illustrations for the Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate have been nominated for an Atlantic Book Award (the Lillian Smith Award for Illustration). wish it had been for the lovely work he did in Anything But Hank!, but well-deserved nonetheless. Congrats Eric!

Anything But Hank launch this Saturday in Toronto, TINARS for Tots

Pages Books & Magazines presents TINARS For Tots
Visit: www.pagesbooks.ca

TINARS FOR TOTS EXTRAVAGANT HOLIDAY BONANZA!
Award-winning playwright and novelist Claudia Dey hosts the first Annual TINARS For Tots Extravagant Holiday Bonanza! Do you like puzzles, mazes and blobs? Then don't miss Clayton Hanmer’s fun-filled unveiling of CTON’s Super A-maze-ing Year of Crazy Comics! (Owl Kids). Ruth Ohi will show us how to make play-do creatures based on Chicken, Pig, Cow (Annick Press). And, what’s in a name? Zach Wells and Rachel Lebowitz will share their tale of a baby that needs a name, Anything But Hank (Biblioasis). – A TINARS For Tots event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Annick Press, Owl Kids, Biblioasis, Bunch, Gladstone Hotel and The Little Paper.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Sat Dec 6; 10AM (doors 9:30 am) PWYC Cover

Anything But Hank: The Vancouver Launch

Zach and Rachel, seen above, launched their children's book Anything But Hank at Once Upon a Huckleberry Bush on Saturday, and it seems to have been a smashing success. Zach has uploaded a recording of the reading to his website, which can be found here:

zachariahwells.blogspot.com/2008/10/audio-anything-but-hank-launch.html


It's been a crazy couple of weeks around here, with several other notable launches, and I'll be posting on all of them in the coming days, with photographs and impressions. So stay tuned!

Reminder: Anything But Hank Launch Tomorrow Afternoon in Vancouver

Booklaunch: Anything But Hank!
Once Upon a Huckleberry Bush
4387 Main St. (at 28th), Vancouver
1 pm

Anything but Hank launch

Another launch is fast approaching: our first children's book, Rachel Lebowitz's, Zach Wells's and Eric Orchard's Anything But Hank! We'll be launching on Saturday October 11 at Once Upon a Huckleberry Bush, at 4387 on Main St. in Vancouver.