How many times have you read a book and wished you could ask the author why he ended the book that way, or what inspired her to write the story, or when will the sequel be out? These were some of the questions I heard our children ask visiting authors when I sat in on some of the workshops in previous years. What an extraordinary experience to have the opportunity to converse with an author of a book you have just read and loved!

For almost 30 years, the best-kept secret at RPPS has been a series of workshops that bring authors into every class in the school which leads up to our Book Fair. This year’s Literary Festival for Book Fair 2011 will be another outstanding year! A hard working team of parents have been busy all summer booking wonderful illustrators, storytellers, and authors that will come to RPPS for the Author Workshops on Thursday, October 20 for the Grade 6’s and Wednesday, October 19 for the rest of the school.  Please see  "View this year's schedules" for specific details.

RPPS is able to provide these workshops because of the profits made from the previous year’s Book Fair sales. So thank you for all those volunteer hours that help make Book Fair so successful! We have had many well known and talented artists visit the students at RPPS. This exceptional opportunity for our children to converse and learn from poets, storytellers, authors, and illustrators dates back to 1980 and includes among others, Farley Mowat as one of the visiting authors.

This year we will be visited by some well-known creative artists. Here is the line-up for this year: