Events › Canadian Children's Book Week: Sid Sharp

Hosted on Zoom

Drawing from Nature

Join Sid for a workshop where we look at the pieces of nature that exist all around us and explore ways to lovingly document, preserve, and care for the things we find (while leaving them where they belong). Participants will draw and write about their chosen treasures and the surrounding environment, sparking stories to tell and coming away with fun games and activities for interacting with the natural world.

Sid Sharp is an artist and illustrator from Toronto who makes drawings, paintings, and comics. Their interests include folklore, horror stories, mysterious and unknowable things, and finding good sticks for their stick collection. Sid went to OCAD University, works in a bookstore, and published The Wolf Suit, their first graphic novel for kids, with Annick Press in 2022. Their new book with Annick, Bog Myrtle, came out in October 2024.

Required equipment: projector/screen; Sid will provide the treasures and examples.

Required materials: plain or colourful paper, markers, pencil crayons.

Check out all of our Book Week author events at the Library, running April 27-May 3.

For Grades P-6

Canadian Children’s Book Week connects Canadian authors and illustrators with children and teens across Canada. The week of events is organized by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1976.

How to participate 

Register 1 attendee per participant/class. You will be emailed an invitation link to Zoom and instructions prior to the day of the event.

Registration for this event ends on April 29

Tech Requirements 

All devices are accepted. 

New to Zoom? It’s easy. We’ll email you instructions ahead of time, and when you arrive we’ll be there to guide you.

Your privacy is important to us

No recordings, screenshots, or photographs will be permitted by hosts or participants.

Resources

• What You Need to Know: Online Events with Zoom
• Video Tutorial: Zoom Meetings