CAROL MATAS

Barbara was kind enough to be my third guest ever on my blog! Here's our Q&A: First of all why a Jewish book blog?  http://jewis...

So I am thrilled to add Deborah to my guest list! She kindly hosted me over at her blog, and now I'd like to return the favour! Debor...

Barbara Krasner has been kind enough to host me on her blog, https://thewholemegillah.wordpress.com and I'd like to host her here so I...

So I've been on a blog tour for Tucson Jo and really really enjoyed meeting the bloggers, answering their questions and sometimes bein...

Firstly, I have to say that when the general email blast announcing the awards came through on my email I didn't even check to see if ...

The Winnipeg Free Press  has chosen Tucson Jo as a Holiday Pick. I'm thrilled!

Wow! 19. That's quite the number. The 19th edition of Jesper  -my book about The Danish Resistance in World War 11 - just arrived in ...

Here's the first review of Tucson Jo in Canadian Materials . Really thrilled. http://umanitoba.ca/cm/vol21/no4/tucsonjo.html

What an evening! The really spectacular thing, outside of a fabulous turnout at McNally Robinson's Bookstore, was to have two very speci...

Writing a first draft is so different for every writer. Some take years to fine tune every sentence as they work. Some take months or years ...

One of the hardest things about this book is remembering how to spell Tucson! To be fair it does sound like Tuson or should be pronounced Tu...

I have been working on this book, Tucson Jo for 8 years now! In another post I will describe the writing process. But for now I just wa...

Pieces of the Past, The Holocaust diary of Rose Rabinowitz, has been nominated for a B.C. Red Cedar Award. Just to make a perfect triple thi...

I am thrilled to announce that Pieces of the Past, The Holocaust diary of Rose Rabinowitz, has won The Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish b...

Pieces of the Past, The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, was awarded a Manitoba Day Award by The Association for Manitoba Archives.  The...

In this blog interview about Pieces of the Past ,  as part of the Sydney Taylor book awards 2104 blog tour , I talk about the challenges of...

  Two of my books are on Resource Links ' "The Year's Best 2013" list for Grades 3-6: Greater Than Angels and Pieces of t...

Pieces Of The Past has been named a Best Book for 2013 (for Grades 3 - 6)   by Resource Links and has been "highly recommended" by...

Pieces of the Past, The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz  (Scholastic Canada 2013) has just been named a  2014 Sydney Taylor Honor Book  f...

Pieces of the Past is now number one on the Children's books  bestseller list at McNally Robinson's books.