About the Author, Helaine Becker

Readings and Performances

Orange County (Calif) Children's Book Festival

Frye Fest
Harbourfront Aloud

Children's Festival

Canada Council
National Author Tour

Word on the Street Festival

Owl Magazine Anniversary Celebration

Hundreds of school and library appearances across Canada

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I am a member of the Writer's Union of Canada. As such, my public performance at your location my be funded by a Canada Council grant. For more information, contact the Writer's Union.

Helaine Becker is an award-winning writer of books for children. She haw written over 40 books, including the best-selling Looney Bay All-Stars series; popular non-fiction, including Magic Up Your Sleeve, Secret Agent Y.O.U. and Boredom Blasters; picture books and young adult novels.

She also writes for children's magazines and for kids television. She recently wrote and developed Dr. Greeny's Mad Lab, a segment on Planet Echo, an environmental science show airing on APTN in 2011, and is hard at work on several other TV projects.

Helaine is ia popular presenter and performer at schools across Canada and the US. She was selected twice to tour for Canadian Children’s Book Week. She went to Yukon in 2006 and Nunavut in 2008, and has presented at the Orange County (California) Children's Festival, the Festival of Women Writers, Frye Fest, Weaving Words, and other major venues.

Both an American and Canadian citizen, Ms. Becker attended high school in New York and graduated cum laude from Duke University in another century. She is married, with two sons, and is an active swimmer, runner, cyclist, and compulsive read-aholic. She has an orange belt in karate and is contemplating going for her grapefruit belt.

Helaine loves bright shiny colorful things, especially happy faces and flowers. She is crazy about fluffy dogs, coral reefs, and ice cream and color-changing nailpolish.

FUN FACTS:

> Helaine once won an owner-dog look alike contest.

> Her poem The Ode to Underwear was set to music by the popular Canadian band, the Irish Descendants, and played nationally on CBC radio. More people ask her to read this poem than all her other funny poems combined.

> Her dog Ella is the cutest dog in the world. She is a puli - a Hungarian sheepdog. Ella's predecessor, Marley, also a puli, appeared in Boredom Blasters in her own comic strip. Sharp-eyed readers will find Marley making cameo appearances in several other of Helaine's books too!

> Michael and Andrew, her two children, were inspirations for Wallace P. "Wiggy" Wigden and Reese McSkittles.

> Helaine thinks variety is the spice of life so she is always trying new things. She has a zillion projects in the works including chapter books, graphic novels, poetry collections and more!