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Oh, How I Love TVO!

I can't believe how fortunate I am. Last week I got to speak on a TVOParents panel about children's illustration with the fabulously talented author/illustrator Barbara Reid, and the charming and hilarious Sheila Barry, who is the president of the board at the Canadian Children’s Book Centre and is co-publisher at Groundwood Books. It was another wonderful experience with the very fine folks at TVOParents, made especially enjoyable because of their lovely host, Cheryl Jackson. You can see the video here.

Oh, and speaking of 'O's' – a big fat congrats must go out to Barbara Reid for being named to the Order of Ontario!! Oh my!!

Yowza! Chirp on TV!

Yowza! What fantabulous news. Chirp is going to be on TV!! You can read all about it here. The animation company working with the CBC is called Yowza (awesome name!), and the company working on the development of Chirp apps and games is called Moonray Studios. I just hope all this fame doesn't go to Chirp's head. It's big enough as it is, don't ya think?

Fly Chirp to the Moon!

Happy New Year! And what better way to ring in 2012 than having Chirp nestled on the moon with his favourite teddy bear at his side? The Jan/Feb issue of Chirp is all about that magical, mystical time of day – the night! Scary things happen at night, that's true, but wonderful things happen, too – like stars shimmering in the night sky, big beautiful moons winking at you, and (hopefully) lots of deep delicious sleepy dreams. You might notice something different about the Chirp cover – yup, that lovely banner at the top, announcing that 2012 is the year to celebrate 15 years of Chirp!! That's something to jump over the moon about, don't ya think? So stay tuned for fun news in the future about Chirp's birthday celebrations, and in the mean time, I wish you plenty of sweet dreams...