The author tour begins Feb. 24 in Cumberland House. (file photo/paNOW Staff)

By Derek Cornet

Public schools

PNLS set for northern author tour

Feb 7, 2020 | 4:50 PM

SaskPower’s Northern Reading Program will have an author tour this month at 10 schools including Gordon Denny Community School in Air Ronge.

The tour is organized by Pahkisimon Nuyeʔáh Library System (PNLS) and is meant to showcase Saskatchewan authors and the content they produce to northern residents. Dianne Young, who has been writing children’s literature for more than 30 years, was selected for the tour.

“This will be her third visit to northern Saskatchewan,” PNLS Assistant Director Harriet Roy said. “She’s already done our northern and west side tours, so she’s doing the east side now. Most of the Saskatchewan authors we bring up here have to do three years.”

Young is a retired educational assistant and has published seven books including six for children and one for adults. She has lived in communities throughout Saskatchewan and currently lives in Martensville.

The tour will begin Feb. 24 in Cumberland House followed by Deschambault Lake on Feb. 25, Creighton and Pelican Narrows on Feb. 26, Air Ronge and Hall Lake on Feb. 27, and Weyakwin and Timber Bay on Feb. 28.

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“It is to promote writers because we find, a lot of times, we have a lot of our books and stuff are written by people nobody has an association with,” Roy said. “What we’ve done in the past, and we’ve done this for quite a few years now, is we send a copy of most of the books they have written, as long as it’s basically Kindergarten to Grade 12 material. That way they have an idea there’s people living in Saskatchewan who write stories and what kind of stories they write.”

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