Résumé: Sylvia McNicoll craint que les parents et les éducateurs n'aient réussi à faire de la lecture une obligation des plus contraignantes. À l'inverse, dans ses séances de lecture et d'animation culturelle, elle cherche à éveiller l'imagination des enfants et à les initier au plaisir de la lecture. Cette volonté de satisfaire les aspirations des jeunes lecteurs d'aujourd'hui est à la source de ses récits, toujours émouvants et pleins d'humour.
Summary: Sylvia McNicoll has much fun entertaining children at book talks. She loves to arouse interest in her own books and reading in general. She fears educators and parents have become so adamant about the importance of reading, they've turned it into broccoli. She'd rather show kids the joy and magic of books—turn them back into chocolate treats. She is convinced good books must not only thrill, but connect with a reader's inner identity or they ultimately do not satisfy. Her efforts to connect with modem children, their interests and concerns, have resulted in wonderful novels of humour and poignancy.
