Maritime Writer Kicks Off Authors' Series in Windsor
Pamela Hickman, a nature science writer for children, will kick off an authors' series in Windsor from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 15, at Haliburton House Museum.
Ms. Hickman is the first writer presented in this summer's authors' series, which will bring the works of four contemporary Nova Scotia writers to a Windsor audience.
The entire family is invited to have their books signed, meet the author and learn more about natural history at Haliburton House.
Forests, animals, the seashore and the night life of the natural world -- bugs, plants and flowers -- are just some of the topics Ms. Hickman has chosen for her 22 fascinating books on nature science for children.
Born in Ontario, Ms. Hickman is a writer and educator with a background in biology and environmental studies. She is volunteer president with the Apple Tree Landing Children's Centre in her home community of Canning, N.S. Her books have inspired children and received critical acclaim. In 1995, Ms. Hickman won the Lilla Sterling Memorial Award.
Her colourful books are full of unusual details, informative activities and experiments. These help give young people a new sense of the world around them. Her most recent publications are In the Woods (Formac 1998), illustrated by Twila Robar-DeCoste; Animal Senses: How Animals See, Hear, Taste, Smell and Feel (Kids Can Press Ltd., 1998), illustrated by Pat Stephens; and the My First Look Series (Kids Can Press Ltd., 1997), three books about metamorphosis, the food chain and a plant's life cycle.
Haliburton House Museum, a part of the Nova Scotia Museum family, was once the home of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a gifted Nova Scotian author in the first half of the 1800s. Haliburton was the author of one of the first history books about the province and was celebrated internationally for many of his works, including The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville, the book that featured Sam Slick, the fictional Yankee clock pedlar, for whom Windsor's annual Sam Slick festival is named.