Come Out to Play with Dr A
Or join in some of her Events

Oh Dr A won’t you come out to play?
too busy too busy toobusybusybusy
she responded for years and years
yet playing with words
and reading pictures
studying what they seemed to
do and say to one
another was much of the busy-ness

Dr A has leapt
from province to province
four to be exact
in pursuit of academic
qualifications & employment
she holds a BA in literature
an MA in writing
and a PhD in theoretical musings
on both the former
focusing on how it is
and why maybe
readers are so drawn
in
by first-person narrators
in young adult novels
interesting as such engagements are
picturebooks and the ever
e x p a n d i n g r e a l m
of visualverbal relations
have long since swept
her off her professional
chair and catapulted her
into what she now calls
the ludic
third
space
a creative place
where pictures design and words
pl ay on the pa ge
inviting readers to muse
enthuse and make bake shake
up meanings
puzzling out
puz zling to ge ther
the many possible meanings
how they add up and multiply
as the story wends its way
from page
to page

she offers workshops on
how picturebooks work
on you and you on them
bold insights
for people of all ages
in casual community settings
or on more professional stages
be it for sheer fun
for practical application
or for a mix of those

small group settings preferred
curated book selections
from alphabets to poetry
from fairy tales to pop-ups
with social justice themes
and much more in between
and personalized experiences
built in to your request

she is also open to sharing
her boutique library
living space with book
creators seeking quirks
or quarks of inspiration
for a few days or weeks

up-coming events

Gorgeous Goat & The Widow Wyile are Pleased to Announce Their Very First Event!

A Synchro-Creative Visual-Verbal Exhibit Of Paintings by Angela Melanson & Versery by Yours Truly

Do W O nder : W O nder Do

Where: Tides contemporary Art Gallery, 36 Cornwallis St, Kentville, Nova Scotia

When: June 2024: show opens June 7 @ 5pm; Artist talk with Angela June 19th