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
 

To arrange for a reading or event at your location, please contact
Authors Booking Service  at authors.bookingservice@gmail.com.



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!


Photo Gallery
With fabulous children's author Sherri Fitch (and Wallace P. "Wiggy" Wigden) at the
Aloud Children's Festival
Word on the Street Book Festival
On the Main Stage at the Aloud Children's Festival
Summer Reading Series
Franklin Gardens, Toronto
Photo credits: Heather Rivlin, Karl Szasz, Michael Szasz
Accepting the award at the
  2006 Silver Birch Award Ceremony
At Colegio de Roosevelt in Lima, Peru, where I spent a week teaching student workshops in April '06
With the fabulous students of Blessed Kateri School.
I should have my head examined - volunteering for a brain research study at the Rotman Institute.
Our adorable Puli, named Ella, is an avid reader. Of course.
Secret Agent Y.O.U.
Japanese Edition
With fellow children's authors Helene Boudreau, Marina Cohen and Debra Kerbel.
Me, at age 9.
Reading about Wiggling.
With author Rebecca Upjohn at the Waterdown School Literacy Festival.
With some great kids at their
school in California!
Loving life!