Author Sheree Fitch Reads at Haliburton House

Best-selling Maritime author Sheree Fitch will read from her award-winning children's books at a free public event Sunday, Sept. 19, at Haliburton House Museum in Windsor.

A mother, performance poet, storyteller, educator and activist, Ms. Fitch has travelled the globe performing her work in libraries, schools and writing festivals. Her critically acclaimed works are known for their play on words and humour.

Ms. Fitch's first book of nonsense poetry, Toes in my Nose, was published in 1987 and continues to be a best-seller in Canada. In 1996, she won the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature for her work Mable Murple, illustrated by Maryann Kovalskie and published by Doubleday in 1995. Since then, books such as If You Could Wear My Sneakers! (Doubleday, 1997), There's a Mouse in My House (Doubleday, 1998), and The Hullabaloo Bugaboo Day (Pottersfield Press, 1998) have amused and captivated readers of all ages.

Besides two plays commissioned by Mermaid Theatre and Montreal Youtheatre in the past two years, Ms. Fitch has continued writing books, releasing several this year, including If I Were the Moon (Doubleday) and The Other Author, Arthur (Pottersfield Press). A non-fiction book for young writers, Sun-day, Moon-day, Some Day Dreams (Pembroke Publishers), is scheduled for release later this year.

Ms. Fitch is the third author presented in the Authors Encore! series at Haliburton House Museum. Members of the whole family are encouraged to come to her reading Sunday, between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., have their books signed and meet this energetic, charismatic writer.

Haliburton House Museum, a part of the Nova Scotia Museum, was once the home of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a gifted author. Judge Haliburton wrote one of the first history books of 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 the fictional Yankee clock pedlar Sam Slick, for whom Windsor's annual Sam Slick festival is named.