Day 243- Remote Man from Canada Meets Author

Day 243- Saturday, August 25th- Remote Man from Canada Meets Author

Colleen and I attended the Melbourne Writer's Festival Author's party and were honoured to meet Elizabeth Honey. She is a Melbourne children's book author who has, over the past 3 years, collaborated online with my classes in Canada while we studied her book "Remote Man." The book takes place in Australia (Melbourne and Kakadu), America (Boston and New York), France and Jamaica as 5 young teens track down a wildlife poacher through online email and chatroom communication. Elizabeth was gracious enough to spend time over the past years with my classes online, discussing the book and answering questions.
We attended her morning author presentation with her German co-author Heike Brandt, where their new children's novel, "To the Boy in Berlin" was featured. Afterwards, I presented Elizabeth with an ePals t-shirt. It was through ePals, a Canadian based online network for school children that links classrooms worldwide in online projects and provides electronic penpals, that we were able to communicate. At various times we had online meetings while she was in Japan and Melbourne, while my class was at home, at school and on holidays (Dubai and Quebec) and while our partner classes were in Australia and Scotland!

It was a thrill to meet Elizabeth Honey face to face!
Elizabeth signed my copy of her new book, "To the Remote Man from Canada..."