Event to connect refugees with local authors
This September the Upper Grand District School Board is hosting an event to connect Syrian and other newcomer refugee families who have recently resettled in local communities with local children’s authors and illustrators.
Welcome Neighbours will be held on Sept. 17 at Westwood Public School in Guelph, from 2 to 4pm.
The board has recently welcomed nearly 30 Syrian refugee families and up to 60 more families are expected by the end of the year.
The board has invited newcomer families to meet nine of the most successful and well known authors and illustrators in Canada,.
Authors in attendance will include Robert Munsch, Jean Little, Eric Walters, Kathy Stinson, Jo Ellen Bogart, Janet Wilson, Lisa Dalrymple, Kira Vermond and Werner Zimmerman.
