A Morning with Polly Horvath
Saturday Oct 20 2018 10:30 am, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium
In conversation with Jodi Carmichael and signing Very Rich (Puffin Canada). Co-presented by the Winnipeg International Writers Festival as part of our collaborative Fall Literary Series.
From Newbery Honor-- and National Book Award--winning author Polly Horvath comes another magical novel featuring a time machine, money, food and lots of family.
Polly Horvath is the author of many books for young people, including The Night Garden, Everything on a Waffle, The Pepins and Their Problems, The Canning Season and The Trolls. Her numerous awards include the Newbery Honor, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature. She has also been shortlisted for The Deutscher Jugenliteraturpreis, Germany's most prestigious literature award. Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Visit her online.
Jodi Carmichael has lived most of her life in Winnipeg but spent two years in Hertford, England where she left a wee bit of her heart. She is the author of three books; the middle grade novel Family of Spies: Paris, young adult novel Forever Julia and chapter book Spaghetti is NOT a Finger Food and Other Life Lessons. When not channeling characters from her books, Jodi can be found strolling Manitoba beaches with her family.
See:
Very Rich
- Polly Horvath 
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From Newbery Honor-- and National Book Award--winning author Polly Horvath comes another magical novel featuring a time machine, money, food and lots of family.
Ten-year-old Rupert Brown comes from an ordinary family. They live in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio, and have little money or food. So when Rupert inadvertently finds himself spending Christmas at the house of Turgid River -- the richest boy in town -- he is blown away to discover a whole other world, including all the food he can eat and wonderful prizes that he wins when the family plays games, prizes he hopes to take home to his family so they can have Christmas presents for the very first time. But this windfall is short-lived when Rupert loses it all in one last game and goes home empty-handed. Each member of the Rivers family feels guilty about what happened and, unbeknownst to each other, tries to make it up to Rupert in their own unique way, taking him on one unlikely adventure after another.
