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!
Hear a reading from Fast Friends
My first fishing licence
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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.
O Captain! My Captain!
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The fourth and final deleted scene about Jonesy, who was banished to the Island of Lost Characters…
Squeezed out
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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.