Sherman early childhood learning series - Canadian author Jack Wong-FR and SJ

Event date(s): November 20, 2024
Time(s): 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Category: Both Campuses Fredericton Saint John
Location: Both Campuses

On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the UNB Early Childhood Centre and the UNB Faculty of Education, host The Sherman Early Childhood Learning Series: Literacies Across a Lifetime with Canadian author Jack Wong, author of recently published All That Grows.

During the coming school year, selected Canadian authors will offer a one-hour online session open the public. The goal of this series is to engage participants in thinking and learning about the complexities of what it means to be diverse literate learners.

The public is invited on Nov. 20, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Register here.

The Sherman Early Childhood Learning Series, Literacies Across a Lifetime: Celebrating Canadian authors - 2024 - 2025.

November 20: Jack Wong, recently published All That Grows

Jack Wong (黃雋喬) was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver. In 2010, he left behind a life as a bridge engineer to pursue his Bachelor of Fine Arts at NSCAD University in Kjipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia; he has called the east coast of Canada home ever since.

A self-declared actual Jack-of-all-trades, he has also tried his hand at bookkeeping, teaching art, managing a psychology research lab, and  running his own bicycle repair shop, just to name a few—a real education for creating children’s books, if you ask him!

Working as a children’s author/illustrator, Jack seeks to share his winding journey with young readers so that they may embrace the unique amalgams of experiences that make up their own lives.

Jack’s debut picture book, When You Can Swim (Scholastic), received the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in Picture Books, the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award in Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books, and was a finalist for the Ezra Jack Keats Award. His second picture book, The Words We Share (Annick Press), received the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature, and was shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association’s Blue Spruce Award. His other titles include All That Grows (Groundwood), and forthcoming titles from Scholastic and Abrams Books for Young Readers.

Contact: Kim Stewart and Sherry Rose     

Building: Zoom

Room Number: Zoom