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Cozy Fest: Monique Polak + Christmas Weekend

Monique Polak brings peak gezellig to Cozy Fest with a short reading from her YA novel Christmas Weekend (Linda Leith Publishing) about the tender, uncertain moments of a newly forming blended family during the holidays.

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A banner reading "Cozy Fest." The light pink background is patterned with simple snowflakes, and green pine boughs with lights fringe the bottom. The ALU logo is placed at the top centre.

Monique Polak reads from
Christmas Weekend (Linda Leith Publishing)

About our reader

Monique Polak is the author of 34 books for young people. She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writer’s Federation Janet Savage-Blachford Prize for Children’s and YA Fiction (formerly the QWF Prize for Children’s and YA Fiction). Her work has been nominated for many other prizes including the CCBC Geoffrey Bilson Prize for Historical Fiction; an Arthur Ellis Award, and the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award. In addition to writing many stories for the Montreal Gazette, Monique taught at Marianopolis College for 35 years. She continues to do writing workshops at schools across the country.

Photo credit Paul Doumit.

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Thanks to Monique for reading from her book for All Lit Up’s fourth-annual Cozy Fest! You can learn more about Christmas Weekend and order from ALU or your fave local bookstore (via the Shop Local button), right here.

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