Event Speaker: Deborah Kerbel

Deborah Kerbel is the award-winning author of more than thirty books for young people. From graphic novels to non-fiction, picture books to middle grade, and YA to wordless, her work has been honoured with the Forest of Reading Yellow Cedar Award, the IODE Jean Throop Book Award, and both the Red Cedar Fiction and Non-Fiction Award. Her books have been translated into French, Korean, Turkish, German, and Standard Chinese. Born in a future police station in London, England and raised in the suburbs of Toronto, Deborah currently lives and writes in Thornhill, Ontario with her family.