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Winnipeg, Manitoba
Birthday: July 20, 1951 Married to Martin Deller with two children, Natalie and Gordon, and two stepchildren, Shane and Keeley. Natalie is currently a sophomore at the University of Southern California earning a BFA in Acting. Gordon is a freshman at Dalhousie University studying business. Shane is a drummer in a rock band and Keeley is attending her last year of high-school at Neuchatel Junior College in Switzerland. Home: Toronto, Ontario Paulette graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1974 with a B.Sc. and worked briefly as an occupational therapist before returning to Carleton University to study journalism. She has worked in television and print and is now a writer of children's picture books and non-fiction books. When Paulette decided to write books for children, she read every book in the library but could not think of any ideas. Then she heard Hawkeye Pierce in a M*A*S*H* rerun say that he was so claustrophobic that if he were a turtle, he would be afraid to go inside his shell. She has no trouble with ideas now and writes stories from her personal experiences. Her stories tend to validate that children have the power of imagination, the power of creativity and the the power of finding solutions. Paulette says that the ideas for her Franklin stories come from her own childhood memories - how she felt, how she reacted - but they also come from overhearing conversations or from reading books, magazines and newspapers. Paulette knows that to be a writer you have to have ideas, and her best ideas come while listening to music, or sitting in front of a fire, or in the summer looking at the ocean and sand dunes. You can contact Kids Can Press for an online publicity photo. Paulette is also planning her own official website. She no longer does school visits...although she sometimes does appear for national charitable events for children and literacy and while she tries to answer letters, she prefers to respond by email since it is too time-consuming to answer thousands of letters personally and she doesn't have a secretary! To get more
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Paulette Bourgeois: Author
