Brigid Mylod is a dedicated practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga Yoga. For more than 12 years she has been using it and creating stories to develop children’s language skills in early education classrooms.
Johnny May was born in London, Ontario. There, his love of music blossomed into a successful song-writing career that he balances with his love of telling stories, his work as a physician in Guelph and his volunteer service at medical outreach clinics in Guatemala. He recently released an album entitled Alone In This Together, which is available on iTunes and at www.johnnymaymusic.ca.
His quirky animal characters, inspired by friends and family and influenced by his earlier career as a biologist studying small creatures, were invented to entertain his two young sons. These yarns eventually became the Magnath Chronicles.
Duane Lawrence was born in Princeton, BC, works as a high-school teacher and has taught in London, England and Nara, Japan. Now living in Vancouver, he enjoys walking through the city’s Stanley Park, and during one such stroll, was inspired to write about the animals that live there. He also speaks English, French and Japanese.
Check out Duane Lawrence’s personal homepage at: duanelawrence.ca
Duane Lawrence was born in Princeton, British Columbia. He is a high-school teacher who has lived and taught in London, England and Nara, Japan (which is in a park-like setting with hundreds of tame deer). The author, who now lives in Vancouver, enjoys walking in the city s Stanley Park and on one such stroll was inspired to write about animals living there. The author speaks French and Japanese and is available for interviews and events.
Check out Duane Lawrence’s personal homepage at: duanelawrence.ca
Duane Lawrence lives in Vancouver and enjoys regular walks in beautiful Stanley Park. It was during one leisurely stroll in the park that he decided to write about the animals that live there. Recently retired, he taught high school French for 20 years in Canada and 1 year in London, and taught English in Japan for 9 years. Besides English, Duane speaks French and Japanese.
Duane has previously written 2 early chapter books for children in the primary grades. They are Sammy Squirrel & Rodney Raccoon – A Stanley Park Tale and Sammy Squirrel & Rodney Raccoon – To The Rescue. Due to popular demand, this picture book version titled Sammy Squirrel & Rodney Raccoon – Far From Stanley Park was done for preschool children who enjoy looking at illustrations and are just beginning to read.
Learn about Duane’s books at DuaneLawrence.ca
Gordon Clover was born in London, England. He taught art in both the UK and New Brunswick, where he also worked as a freelance illustrator of books and magazines. He worked at the Edmonton Journal before moving with his wife to British Columbia.
A long-time resident of North Vancouver and then Victoria, Gordon continued illustrating children’s books well into his eighties.
Dr. Brian Hayden is an author and archaeologist who has conducted research on four continents, with a passion for understanding past cultures—especially hunting and gathering societies—and the reasons for their changes. Born in New York, he obtained a Certificate of Prehistory at the University of Bordeaux, studied stone-tool making with Australian Aborigines, and earned a doctoral degree in Archaeology from the University of Toronto. For 30 years, he worked with native groups in the interior of British Columbia, recording their traditional uses of food resources and excavating the prehistoric winter village at Keatley Creek; he has also worked extensively with complex hunting and gathering societies in the region, including short fictional reconstructions of life in the prehistoric Lillooet area.
Now a Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University and Honorary Research Associate of the Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Hayden lives on Cortes Island in coastal British Columbia. He has published numerous professional journal articles and books, including works on the Old Stone Age in France and a landmark synthesis of prehistoric religion (Shamans, Sorcerers, and Saints: The Prehistory of Religion, Smithsonian Publications, 2003). His later books include The Power of Feasts (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and The Power of Ritual in Prehistory: Secret Societies and the Origins of Social Complexity (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His research has been recognized by induction into the Royal Society of Canada.
You can find further information about Brian on his website.
Jacqui Stanley has moved back to Houston Texas. Before she left Washington she received the award as the outstanding student for Secondary Education for 2005 by the faculty at Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University.
A passionate diver, underwater photographer, writer, illustrator, speaker, and supporter of several marine societies, Jacqui gives frequent presentations and seminars at conferences and schools throughout Canada and the USA. She has a BA from the University of Western Australia and an MLA from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. Jacqui is working on a degree in Early Childhood Education.
