His latest book\, Beatrice and Croc Harry is his debut middle-grade school book\, which follows the story of Beatric e\, a brave and resilient Black girl on her adventure of identity and heal ing. This book shows readers the power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and t he magic of storytelling.
\nThere will be a live Q&\;A session at the end\, so please bring your questions.
\nIf you are interested i n purchasing a copy of Beatrice and Croc Harry\, please check out Words Worth Books website for orderi ng information. \;
\nNote: This program is vir tual and is delivered through Zoom and YouTube Live.
\nThe host for tonight&rsquo\;s event is Colleen James. Colleen is a Professor and Progra m Coordinator in the School of Business at Conestoga College and the Found er and Principal Consultant of Divonify Inc.
\nLawrence Hill is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of ten books of fiction and nonfic tion\, including The Book of Negroes\, which was made into a six-part TV m ini-series\, and The Illegal\, both of which won CBC Canada Reads. His pre vious novels\, Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood\, became national best sellers. Hill&rsquo\;s nonfiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life\, the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures\, and the memoir Black Berry\, Sw eet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. In January 2022\, HarperCol lins Canada will publish Hill&rsquo\;s eleventh book -- the novel Beatrice and Croc Harry.
\nHill&rsquo\;s volunteer work has included Crossro ads International\, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society\, Book Clubs for I nmates\, and The Ontario Black History Society\, and Walls to Bridges &nda sh\; a non-profit group offering university courses to incarcerated Canadi ans. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph who has spent more than a decade volunteering in book clubs in federal penite ntiaries. In 2019\, through Walls to Bridges\, he taught a third-year unde rgraduate memoir writing course to women incarcerated in the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener ON.
\nCurrently\, Hill is writing screenplays for a TV miniseries in development\, as well as a new novel a bout the thousands of African-American soldiers who travelled from militar y bases in the Deep South to help build the Alaska Highway in northern Bri tish Columbia and Yukon during World War Two. A member of the Order of Can ada\, he lives in Hamilton ON.
\nMore about Beatrice and Cro c Harry: Beatrice\, a young girl of uncertain age\, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forest. How did she arrive in this cozy dwell ing\, stocked carefully with bookshelves and oatmeal accoutrements? And wh o has been leaving a trail of clues\, composed in delicate purple handwrit ing?
\nSo begins the adventure of a brave and resilient Black girl&r squo\;s search for identity and healing in bestselling author Lawrence Hil l&rsquo\;s middle-grade debut. Though Beatrice cannot recall how or why sh e arrived in the magical forest of Argilia&mdash\;where every conceivable fish\, bird\, mammal and reptile coexist\, and any creature with a beating heart can communicate with any other&mdash\;something within tells her th at beyond this forest is a family that is waiting anxiously for her return .
\nJust outside her tree-house door lives Beatrice&rsquo\;s most un likely ally\, the enormous and mercurial King Crocodile Croc Harry\, who j ust may have a secret of his own. As they form an unusual truce and work t oward their common goal\, Beatrice and Croc Harry will learn more about th eir forest home than they ever could have imagined. And what they learn ab out themselves may destroy Beatrice&rsquo\;s chances of returning home for ever.
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