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 trade books for children, educational materials, and feature articles. Secret Agent Y.O.U. won the 2008 Silver Birch Award.Boredom Blasters! won the Silver Birch Award and was selected as a Children’s Pick by BookSense. It was named one of the Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year by Indigo and was shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Award. Are You Psychic? (Mapletree Press, 2005) was named one of 2005's Top Ten Canadian Children's Books by the Ontario Library Association; Both Funny Business and Are You Psychic? were shortlisted for the Red Cedar Award.

In addition, she is the author of the best-selling Looney Bay All-Stars series, Science on the Loose, Mother Goose Unplucked (2009 Hackmatack Award nominee) Like a Pro, (Mapletree Press, 2005) , Frederick Douglass (Blackbirch Press, 2001), John Brown (Blackbirch Press, 2001), Spelling Puzzlers for Grade 1 (Rigby Publishers 2000), Daily Skill Builders: Science and Technology (J. Weston Walch 2004), Collaborative Teaching in the Middle Grades: Inquiry – Science (Libraries Unlimited 2005), and Decoding Math, Books 1, 2 and 3 (Learning Resources, 2005). She has also authored a series of nine phonics readers and 3 books in the Flip over Math series for Learning Resources.

Other recent educational projects have included Great Scientists: Marie Curie, Exploring Earth History, Cancer, How You Began, Life in the Desert, The Monarch Butterfly, Vision, Infection, The Coral Reef, Life in the Sea, Life in the Tidepool, The Solar System, Fossils and Evolution, and AIDS for the educational publisher, Scott Resources.

Her humorous poem, “Ode to Underwear” was selected by CBC Radio for their “All for a Song” programme. The poem was recorded by the Irish Descendants, and aired nationally.

Ms. Becker 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.

Both an American and Canadian citizen, Ms. Becker attended high school in NY 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 also loves bright shiny colorful things, especially happy faces and flowers. She is crazy about fluffy dogs, coral reefs, and ice cream.