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Heather M. O'Connor

Award-winning Canadian children's author

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Author: Heather O'Connor

Heather M. O'Connor is an award-winning Canadian children's author of Fast Friends (Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz winner, TD Grade One Book Giveaway), Friends Find a Way, Runs with the Stars/Wiijibamatoon-Anangoonan, and Betting Game. She loves meeting young readers and writers. Invite her to your school or event!

The inspiration for Fast Friends

June 3, 2020July 17, 2024 Heather O'Connor
Fast Friends, Newsbook trailer, Fast Friends, inclusion, picture book, Scholastic Canada

Hear a reading from Fast Friends

June 3, 2020July 17, 2024 Heather O'Connor
Fast Friends, Newsbook trailer, Fast Friends, inclusion, picture book, Scholastic Canada

My first fishing licence

August 1, 2017July 16, 2024 Heather O'Connor

On August 17, I’m taking the Learn to Fish Program at Emily Provincial Park. So are my daughter and my grandson. First one to catch a fish wins.

News, Research, Where I've beenartist-in-residence, Quetico, Runs with the Stars, writer-in-residence, writing retreats

O Captain! My Captain!

April 4, 2016January 8, 2016 Heather O'Connor
free kick

The fourth and final deleted scene about Jonesy, who was banished to the Island of Lost Characters…

Betting GameBetting Game, character, deleted scenes, editing, extras, Jonesy, soccer

Squeezed out

February 4, 2016January 8, 2016 Heather O'Connor
shoulder to shoulder

When you’re writing a book, the words don’t always fit. You cut a character or change a scene. It may disappear from the page, but in your head, it’s still there. It’s real. It happened.

Betting GameBetting Game, character, deleted scenes, editing, extras, Jonesy, soccer

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