EVENT: Story Time with Samantha and Dawn Baker: Presented by WritersNL

August 2, 2024

All are welcome to join us for this family-friendly event, featuring readings from Samantha and Dawn’s books, followed by a Q&A!

This Story Time event takes place on:
🗓 Friday, August 2nd, at 10:00 a.m.
📍 at the Gander Quality Hotel and Suites – Salon A

There will be complimentary bookmarks and colouring sheets for all the children, PLUS door prizes of books and toys!

The Door prize includes:
📗 “A Newfoundland Puppy” book
📙 “A Newfoundland Alphabet” book
🐧 “Commander Gander” stuffie
🐋 Hand-knit “Humpback Whale”

ABOUT DAWN BAKER AND SAMANTHA BAKER:

📝 Dawn Baker has been a visual artist and children’s writer since 1992. A graduate of Memorial University with a Bachelor of Education and a certificate in library studies, she served on the board of directors of The Rooms from 2006 until 2019. In 2015, Dawn served as a juror for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and toured Ontario as part of TD Canadian Children’s Book Week. In 2021-2022, she served as a junior visual art adjudicator for the 2022 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards, and in 2023 she was a juror for the Saskatchewan Book Awards in the Fiction category. A Newfoundland Puppy is the fourteenth book that Dawn has illustrated and/or written with Flanker Press.

📝 Samantha Baker grew up with a great love for the arts and has always enjoyed singing, playing the piano, drawing, and, most of all, writing. She studied linguistics and psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in 2013. Upon graduating, she received the Michael Staveley Award for maintaining Dean’s List status every year of her program. Samantha later returned to Memorial University, where she completed her Bachelor of Education in 2016. She has since worked as a substitute teacher and as an adult basic education instructor at Keyin College, where she primarily taught English language arts. Today she works with The Rooms as part of the Visitor Services team. In her spare time, Samantha enjoys reading, cooking, taking walks around local parks, and spending time with her loved ones.

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