Origin Story: Tara Nanayakkara
byHer mother and her mother’s friends were her first editors and Margaret Lawrence was one of her first critics.
Her mother and her mother’s friends were her first editors and Margaret Lawrence was one of her first critics.
The following reading-extension activities were inspired by I Want To See My Papa
It brings me great joy to know that my book brought a positive light into [a young person’s] life.
“Ultimately we need to rethink our relationship with the natural world, because it is this deep, underlying relationship that is at the root of the problems we currently face.”
“If journalists are afraid, or aren’t permitted, to follow major stories … we lose a keystone of democracy in Canada: press freedom and the right to know.”
“Voices started to shout, ‘Preach it!’ ‘Testify!’ ‘You’re home now!’”