A Short Blurb About the Book

Sam was 4 when he lustily sang about these pirates he invented. Years later, his mum, Emily, found their names scribbled on a note, crying out to be kept alive. So she wrote this song and asked artist,Gailon, Sam''s stepsister to illustrate. It''s a gift for all eight children in our extended family, remembering the fun we had when they were growing up –– and now, for all of theirs!


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Biographical Sketches

Authors:

Emily Hearn

Emily Hearn is well known as a children's song and scriptwriter for CBC radio and TVO. an author of children's books, writer with Mark Thurman, artist, of the Mighty Mites natural history strip for OWL magazine, editor of children's readers for Nelson Canada, online mentor of students' creative writing for TEL's Writers' Connection, and as a poet of adult books, Grass of Green Moment (Pendas) and They Look Like This to Me (Hidden Brook Press). When she married Douglas Valleau they already had four young children each., Sam being her youngest. Now grand- and great grandchildren liven family gatherings. This book is dedicated to all of them."


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Lawren Sam Hayter

Sam Hayter has
G racefully aged
R un six marathons, including London, Dublin, Prague and Paris
O ptimised every opportunity to live life to the fullest
W ishes for world peace, Harmony and Unity
N nurtured two beautiful daughters, Cassandra and Morgan

U ndertook the worldly work of Human Resources
P lace of residence is in London, England with his beautiful wife, Casey and Morgan









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Illustrator:

Gailon Valleau

Gailon Valleau was born and raised in Toronto. She studied Fine Art at The Ontario College of Art from 1977-1980.  Her final year at OCA was spent studying sculpture in Northern Italy. Since then she has worked as a freelance artist, mostly portraiture, but also commissions of all sorts including illustration, murals, etc. Gailon has been a professional cook for 25 years as well as a house painter. At present she is self-employed, doing various artistic commissions, house-painting and private catering jobs. She moved to the Village of Haliburton in 1985, where she still resides.



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Author Contact Information:

Emily Hearn
980 Broadview Ave., 905
Toronto, Ont. M4K 3Y1

Phone: (416) 465-7794
Fax: (416) 778-8508
Email: ehearn @ wier.ca




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Curriculum Vitae



Books:

1970's Early Reading Series: Garrard Pub., U.S. & Nelson Canada
TV KANGAROO, RING AROUND DUFFY, AROUND ANOTHER
CORNER, STOP! IT'S A BIRTHDAY
Parent Handbooks: Polka Dot Door: with Ted Coneybeare and Marnie
Patrick Roberts (TVONTARIO)

1981 MIGHTY MITES IN DINOSAURLAND: with Mark Thurman, illustrator
Greey de Pencier Books

1983 WOOSH! I HEAR A SOUND (for toddlers) Heather Collins, ill. Annick
Press

1984 GOOD MORNING, FRANNY, GOOD NIGHT, FRANNY Mark
Thurman, ill Women's Educational Press

1986 RACE YOU FRANNY, Mark Thurman, ill. Women's Educational Press

1989 FRANNY AND THE MUSIC GIRL Mark Thurman, ill. Second Story Press

1990, 1991 Three books in DRAW AND WRITE, STORYBOARDING series with Mark
Thurman, one for children making their own picture books, a teacher's guide
and a Poster-book Pembroke Publishers, Ltd.

1993 HATTIE PEARL, CLICK CLICK Yvonne Cathcart, ill. SECOND STORY PRESS

1997 article and photo of me in BROAD CANVAS by Linda Rogers, ed. of this collection on women

1998 poem MY FRIEND in giftbook IN PRAISE AND CELEBRATION OF FRIENDSHIP, Exley Publications

2003 article on me and photo in TREASURED LEGACIES Irene Borins Ash, photographer, writer of active seniors,
Second Story Press Article SETTING THE STAGE in EDUCATION CANADA magazine

2004 GRASS OF GREEN MOMENT, :PENDAS PUBLISHERS my adult poetry collection with CD of me reading it

2005 Picturebook HURRAY FOR PARADES, SECOND STORY PRESS, bought but not yet printed or illustrated (07)

2006 THEY LOOK LIKE THIS TO ME, poetry collection, Richard M. Grove publisher, Hidden Brook Press


2007 Short story YELLOW SQUIRREL publ. SCHOLASTIC in Gr.1-3 magazine, COMET,

May 2007 OUR NEW HOME - Second Story Press,
edited with Marywinn Milne,

fall 2007 - immigrant children document arrival and experiences
In anthology, GARDEN VARIETY by Quattro Publishers, poems "a sunflower turns" and " of all my green" reprinted

2008 SONG OF THREE PIRATES, children's picture book , Emily Hearn, Sam Hayter, ill.Gailon Valleau, publisher Hidden Brook Press

ONGOING - mentoring creative work of elementary and middle school students for TDSB on WRITERS' CONNECTION - TEL



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Member:

- Writers' Guild (ACTRA)
- SOCAN
- CANSCAIP
- TWUC
- CHILDREN'S BOOK CENTRE
- CASABLANCA (Agents for my collection of 70 songs PINK AND BLUE HULLABALOO)




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Mile Stones:

1925 b.Markham, Ont., public, high-school education Kitchener, Ont., Emily Wadley

1941-44 University of Toronto, English Language and Literature

1945 m. Ernest Reid 3 children Sue '46, Tim '49, Norm '53

1944-46 National Film Board, Ottawa, stockshot and Production Assistant

1957 divorced, remarried to Charles Hayter, wrote CBC radio scripts as "Emily Hayter"

1958-64 Preschool Teacher: Bloor St. Y.M.H.A. and Howard Park Church, Toronto

1960-now Teacher-Trainer, Workshop Leader, Conference Speaker: Children's Lit. and

1963 Son, Sam Hayter born

Creative Music, Dance, Language - in Early Childhood

1966 took writing pseudonym "Emily Hearn", used ever since

1967 divorced, remarried Douglas Valleau, 4 stepdaughters, Karen, Jann, Gailon, Danuta, my first grandchild born, Anna Prior (Sue)

1962-72 Canadian Broadcasting Corp. - Radio Script-Writer, Songwriter, Interviewer

Preschool - PLAYROOM program.

Ontario School Broadcasts - Drama, Music, Poetry, Movement esp. Elementary Level, K-8

Adult - IDEAS series

1972-82 TVOntario: TV Script and songwriter : POLKA DOT DOOR series

1969-84 Acquisitions Editor, assisting Dr. John McInnes with Gr. 4-6 Language Development  ****Reading (Driftwood & Dandelion series,
7 readers ****  and NETWORKS series, pub. by Nelson/Canada. Travelled Canada many times to find Canadian writers.
Contributed stories and poems of my own, which are anthologized in Canadian, British, and American publications

1970-now Artist in Schools: stimulating elementary and secondary students in music, poetry & picture-book projects

more grandchildren, Tim's Caitlin '82, Luke '84, Norm's Lauren '86, Sam's Cassie '90, Danuta's Angus '88, Afra '91, Jann's Emily '90, Karen's Henry '96 son Tim Reid died of brain tumour '95 great grandchildren, Anna and Brian Maloney, Connor Prior '98, Fiona Prior 2000

1976-June,91 MIGHTY MITES app. 160 features in OWL MAGAZINE, research, plot-conception, writing for 4-page nature comic, collaboration with illustrator, Mark Thurman

1977 Plays: The Pillow Machine: with Anna Palo-Heimo, participation drama

1978 How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck for Frog Print Puppet theatre,Toronto

1978-79 Toronto Star, STARSHIP weekly feature: comic features, poems for children, with Mark Thurman, illustrator

1983 edited for Royal Ontario Museum: MAGIC MONKEY, by Anker Odum (artist) and E. Berthrong, to accompany Silk Roads exhibit

1989-present Computer mentoring,by modem, of children writing in schools. I helped set up the Elementary level for this cross-country program ,Writers in Electronic Residence (WIER,founded by Trevor Owen). Similar communication with Toronto students, on TEL, Writers' Connection

1992-97 Quill and Quire reviewer of children's nature study books


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