{"id":2697,"date":"2010-04-19T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2010-04-19T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:59:38","slug":"children%e2%80%99s-book-by-brock-professor-nominated-for-book-prize-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/04\/children%e2%80%99s-book-by-brock-professor-nominated-for-book-prize-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s book by Brock professor nominated for book prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kari-Lynn

Kari-Lynn Winters' two-year-old daughter was an inspiration for On My Walk.<\/p><\/div>\n

A book by a Brock professor has been nominated for the prestigious B.C. Book Prize.<\/p>\n

Kari-Lynn Winters, assistant professor in the Faculty of Education, has been nominated in the Christie Harris Illustrated Book category for On My Walk<\/em>. The story follows a mother and toddler on a walk through Vancouver. It is illustrated by Christina Leist and published by Tradewind Books.<\/p>\n

This is Winters\u2019 sixth book for young children, and the second to be nominated for the B.C. Book Prize. There are a lot of great Canadian picture books for children aged four to seven, Winters said. But there are few for children aged zero to five.<\/p>\n

“When I read to my two-year daughter, McKenna,” Winters said, “she struggled to pay attention to the length of a regular picture book, so I wanted to write a whole story to her that was at her level.”<\/p>\n

Toddlers prefer short text, concrete ideas and one linear theme, she said.<\/p>\n

Writing for small children, she said, can be tougher than writing for adults. It requires taking an idea and scaling it back until it is at a children\u2019s reading level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s ready when there\u2019s not another word I can cut out of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Winters spent about two years working on On My Walk<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She now performs the book in classrooms using props and lots of action. She teaches drama in education at Brock.<\/p>\n

The B.C. Book Prize will be awarded at an April 24 gala in Victoria, B.C.<\/p>\n

Link:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 B.C. Book Prizes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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