Loris lesynski biography
When she was 18, she won a lottery and used the money to come from Finland to Canada....
Loris Lesynski
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"I knew this interview was coming, so I've been mulling it over.
I figured you'd ask me what I was working on, and I thought I'd talk to you about my intention to write a middle reader comic novel. I was sure this is what I was planning, that's what I've been telling people, but talking to you in my head, I realized it isn't what I want to do at all!
No wonder it's not happening. I just thought I was stuck, or bone idle.
LORIS LESYNSKI is a bestselling author of brilliantly funny poems, and a frequent visitor to schools where she gets kids excited about poetry.
I started thinking about the books I've really admired. When I first read Bernice Thurman Hunter's That Scatterbrain Booky, I couldn't believe how good it was, how much it made me feel. It's about a girl with all kinds of difficulties, yet she's still positive and good-natured.
Sarah Ellis's A Prairie as Wide as the Sea also has much family strife in it, but Ivy has a spunky, joyful quality to her. I think that's what I really want to do, write about a character who's okay - better than okay - even though h