Books
Caroline has published both nonfiction and poetry, on line, on the CBC, and in book collections, magazines and newspapers. She is about to publish a meditative adult volume of short essays about great blue herons and her life before and after being widowed at age 50: The Heron Spirals: A Commonplace Book.
To read more about The Heron Spirals:
Foreword | Excerpt from the book
To reserve your copy of The Heron Spirals, contact Caroline at:
carolinebp [at] sympatico [dot] ca
To sample some of her other essays & poems, try below, or check her blog:
300 word postcard Chickadee story
“Carless –but Carefree?” (1000 word essay read on CBC Radio 1)
Caroline has also written two award-winning books for both children and adults, and edited a fun-filled collection of children’s poetry.
LET’S CELEBRATE!
Let’s Celebrate Canada’s Special Days! has been a major reference work for over twenty years, and won both the Toronto IODE Book Award in 1987 and the Children’s Literature Roundtable’s Information Book Award in 1988.
To learn more about a Canadian Special Day being celebrated this season click here.
ELEANORA’S DIARY
Eleanora’s Diary, The Journals of a Canadian Pioneer Girl, a unique presentation of Canadian emigrant life in the 1830s based on an actual girl’s diaries, sparked the Scholastic “Dear Canada” fiction series.
Learn more about the Hallen family fonds at the National Library and Archives.
ZOOMERANG A BOOMERANG!
Caroline edited Zoomerang A Boomerang!, a collection of poetry for beginning readers that sold approximately 40,000 copies. To read a rhyme that tickles your tongue and makes your belly laugh, and learn the hand or body motions to go with it, click here.
All three of these children’s titles are out of print but can be bought directly from the author, as Caroline has a small quantity of each for sale, as both new and used stock. To order or enquire, go to the contact page.
Be sure to tell her how you would like your copy to be autographed.
To see Caroline’s publishing CV, click here.