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Jack Wong

he/him

Participe à 1 Session

Jack Wong est né à Hong Kong et a grandi à Vancouver. En 2010, il a laissé derrière lui une carrière d'ingénieur de ponts pour étudier les beaux-arts à l'Université NSCAD à Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Travaillant désormais en tant qu'auteur et illustrateur pour enfants, Jack cherche à partager son parcours sinueux avec les jeunes lecteurs afin qu'ils puissent embrasser les amalgames uniques d'expériences qui composent leur propre vie. Ses livres primés comprennent When You Can Swim (Scholastic) et The Words We Share (Annick Press).

All That Grows
All That Grows

Sessions auxquelles Jack Wong participe

Samedi 27 Avril, 2024

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
9:30
9:30 - 11:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
Promenade littéraireÉvénement jeunesse
AnglophoneYouth Program / Volet jeunesse

"On their neighborhood walks together, a boy learns from his older sister all about the plants they see — magnolias that smell like lemon cake, creeping weeds that used to be planted for decoration, and even how dandelion greens can be eaten with spaghetti! But what makes a plant a flower, vegetable or weed, anyway? How can his sister tell, and how does she know so much?The boy’s head spins as he realizes how vast the universe is and how much there is to learn … until he resolves to le...

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Sessions auxquelles Jack Wong assiste

Jeudi 25 Avril, 2024

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
18:30

Vendredi 26 Avril, 2024

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
11:45
11:45 - 13:00 | 1 heure 15 minutes

A novel about the unshakeable animosity between a brother and sister and a community increasingly divided as the feud spirals further into vendettas and violence each year. Through seasons of want and uncertainty, through predatory storms and pandemics and marauding privateers, it is the human heart the reveals itself to be the most formidable adversary each person faces. A pitch-perfect evocation of a lost time and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution.

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20:00
20:00 - 22:00 | 2 heures
Performance
Bilingual EN-FR / Bilingue FR-AN
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