press and media
Wikipedia
Videos
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2009
- aRHYTHMETIC book launch: The first (of many) book launches for this was held April 2009 at Science World in Vancouver, featuring the Oscar-worthy stage performances of all three authors. Videos are 24 minutes long in QuickTime format. Download small movie (28MB) or large movie (124MB). (Right-click “save as” to download to your computer.)
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2008
- Forest of Reading Forest of Reading Literacy Initiative is an Ontario Library Association’s Literacy Initiative. To learn more about this program see accessola.com, Orca books, or see the video below.
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2007
- Jeffrey and Sloth book launch: The book launch for Jeffrey and Sloth was held in April 2007 at the Vancouver Aquarium, home of some of Canada’s only sloths. A 1-minute video presentation can be viewed in these formats: high quality .mov (8 MB), medium quality .avi (17 MB), and low quality .mp4 (2 MB) — (if the sound doesn’t work, try a different browser or download the files to your computer and open them using a different program).
Radio
Word on the Street Festival, Vancouver, 09/25/2005, interviewed by CKWX radio:
Interviews
Press releases
- National Council of Teachers of English 2006 press release (PDF) for Kari’s panel session “Engaging Readers through Performance and Folklore,” November 19 2006
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 From: Office of the Dean at UBC [edited for brevity] We are delighted to announce this year’s winners of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Awards. All three students are to be commended for their excellent contributions to teaching and to our Faculty. Recipients of the UBC Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Awards: Kari-Lynn Winters, Department of Language and Literacy Education Kari-Lynn is a very passionate educator who draws on her extensive background in theatre and literacy to inform her instruction. She is knowledgeable in her subject areas and continually finds creative ways of fostering student learning. She comes to classes well prepared, yet at the same time readjusts her plan if necessary to follow the energy and flow of the students. She builds from her experience as a classroom teacher to bring her subject matter to life, which authenticates her work with pre-service teachers. She establishes strong rapport with her students and has inspired future teachers. Kari-Lynn’s accomplishments were highly praised by both faculty members and students. She is a highly deserving recipient of a UBC Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Award.
- 2005 LLRC Master’s Research Award
Congratulations to the 2005 Winners of the LLRC Master’s Research Award The recipient of the 2005 Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada Masters Research Award is Kari-Lynn Winters of UBC. Kari’s thesis, Developing an Arts-Integrated Reading Comprehension Program for Less Proficient Grade Three and Four Students, was selected from a pool of 17 submissions representing all the regions of Canada. She was unable to attend the award presentation, but UBC’s Dr. Rob Tierney accepted the award on her behalf at the LLRC Annual General Meeting held on May 28th at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Tierney spoke warmly about the richness of research and about Kari’s commitment to the field both as a researcher and as a literacy educator. Congratulations to Kari and to Marlene McKay of Brandon University and Tara-Lynn Scheffel of the University of Western Ontario whose names were also shortlisted for the award. [see pdf]
Bio for media use
The following short bio is prepared for media use and may be copied without formal request. Please see more at author bio, including photos.
Kari-Lynn Winters is a picture book author, poet, and performer. She enjoys being in the classroom in any capacity, as a presenter, a teacher, or as a student. She currently attends the University of British Columbia as a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the Language and Literacy Department. Before graduate school, Kari-Lynn-Lynn taught in North Carolina for three years and in Toronto for two years. She holds a teaching degree from the University of Toronto for children ages 3-13. She is also a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, where she earned a certificate in technical theatre. Orca Book Publishers recently published Kari-Lynn’s first picture book, Jeffrey and Sloth (2007), a tale about a boy who has writer’s block and the imaginary creature he creates to help him write his story. Two other picture books have been accepted for publication.
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Interviewed by Cherie Givens for:
“Pre-censorship of children’s books: Curtailing the freedom of speech and expression of Canadian authors and illustrators” (see section “Canadian Specific: Olympic Word Prohibition”)
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From writingcentre.ubc.ca:
In the spring of 2007, Orca Books published Kari-Lynn Winters’ Jeffrey and Sloth, a picture book about the daunting task of overcoming writer’s block. Her next book, Runaway Alphabet, will be published by Simply Read Books. And another story that she developed in our Children’s Book Workshop – with the working title Chicken on Skis - has been accepted for publication by Raincoast Books. Kari says she didn’t always consider herself a writer – that, in fact, she was a reluctant writer in elementary school who found composition a struggle. It was her love of storytelling and children’s literature that led Kari to eventually to try her own hand at writing. She affirms that her love of children’s literature continues to grow as she “practices writing as a reader and reading as a writer.” In her “spare time” Kari is also a PhD candidate, graduate teaching assistant, children’s theatre performer and mother of two. You can read more by and about Kari on her web site.
Newspaper articles
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2009
- Brief mention in Vancouver Sun, March 24, 2009 (read online)
There are many fabulous books out there that connect early numeracy concepts with early literacy. Vancouver-based publisher Gumboot Books has a number of books that combine poetry and mathematics, including the new title “aRHYTHMetic”.
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St. Thomas Times Journal (Ontario), April 28, 2009 (read online)
Hometown girl returns for triple book debut
By Kyle Rea, Times-Journal Staff
Fans of children’s literature received a triple treat earlier this month.
Hometown girl Kari-Lynn Winters returned from her current home in Vancouver, B.C., where together with fellow authors Lori Sherrit-Fleming and Crystal Stranaghan, they launched three new children’s books at the Talbot Teen Centre.
The trio held an interactive live show, complete with pirates, song and music, before a crowd of more than 100 children and parents. Afterward the authors were available to autograph their books — A World of Stories (Winters and Stranaghan), aRhythmetic (Winters and Sherritt-Fleming) and The Pirate Who Lost his Aarr (Stranaghan).
Winters explained that when she launched her first book, Jeffrey and Sloth, in March 2007, about 20 people attended the B.C. book launch.
“A lot of them said they wished I could do something similar for St. Thomas,” she said. “We thought this (Talbot Teen Centre) would be the perfect place. We’re actually raising money to give back to the (TTC).”
Roughly $300 in ticket sales for the show went to the centre to support its programs.
Winters, nee Moore, grew up in Elgin-St. Thomas and went to Southwold Public School and Parkside Collegiate Institute. When she was 17, Winters went to Brock University to take theatre arts and drama.
“(We met) in clown class,” Sherritt-Fleming, a fellow Brock student, said of their meeting.
Since then, both have become authors and educators, but they haven’t abandoned the theatre side of their careers. Sherritt-Fleming owns a Vancouver-based performance troupe called the Tickle Trunk Players.
“We travel to elementary schools to celebrate literacy,” Sherritt-Fleming said.
Stranaghan, an author and poet, published their books through her company, Gumboot Books.
The event was the official launch for all three books.
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2008
- St. Thomas Times Journal, 2008 (date unknown)
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- St. Thomas Times Journal, May 27, 2008
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- Prince George Citizen (British Columbia), April 18, 2008 (read online)
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2007
- St. Thomas Times-Journal (Ontario), June 30, 2007
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