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Publishing and writing
Thursday, February 2
8:00 am

Kim McArthur

President & Publisher
McArthur and Company
Publishing Ltd.

Here is one of the most successful businesswomen in Canada, lively, controversial, her own person in a world that is not strong on feistiness and original thinking. Right brain thinking hits Canadian literature, Canadian publishing and big-time culture. Kim McArthur founded her company following the closure of Little, Brown Canada, a subsidiary that Kim had started and run since 1987. It was a risk-laden decision but McArthur & Company is now one of the largest Canadian-owned publishers of Canadian fiction. Kim was named Canadian Entrepreneur Woman of the Year in 2001 and has been cited on the Profit/Chatelaine list of Canada's Top 100 Women Business Owners six times! In June 2005 Kim McArthur was awarded the Consumers Choice Award for Business Woman of the Year. She will chair the first Book Lover's Ball in February for the Toronto Public LIbrary Foundation.

Preceded by
PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST
EVERGREEN AWARD
The EVERGREEN AWARD WINNER is Mary Lawson, author of Crow Lake. She will be 'In Conversation' at Session 421 and also be autographing at EXPO 2006 both Thursday and Friday.

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Publishing and writing
Thursday, February 2
8:00 am

OLA's Forest of Reading™ Showcase
Host: LIZ KERR, OLA 2003 President and OLA Forest of Reading Literacy Initiative Chair.

BLUE SPRUCE AWARD™ 2005
Robert Heidbreder, Bill Slavin and Esperança Melo: Drumheller Dinosaur Dance

SILVER BIRCH AWARDS™ 2005
Fiction:
Sharon Stewart: Raven Quest
Non-Fiction:
Marg Meikle: Ask Me Anything: Strange But True Answers to 99 Wacky Questions

RED MAPLE AWARD™ 2005
Fiction:
Kenneth Oppel: Airborn
Non-Fiction:
Andreas Schroeder: Scams!

WHITE PINE AWARD™ 2005
Marnelle Tokio: More Than You Can Chew

GOLDEN OAK AWARD™ 2005
Richardo Keens-Douglas: Tales From the Isle of Spice

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