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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the spooky season, and this author’s eye brings you a beleaguered leaf that the seven-year-old and I found on the pavement while walking to the park. According to my son, it’s a sad skull with a hole in his head. His own AEye is coming along!

#authorsEye #artistsEye #AEye #betterthanAI

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 6d

Love this “Curse Against Book Stealers” in the Special Collections room of Dalhousie’s Killam Memorial Library in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 😂
#LibrarySky #Uplift

Printed sign on a wall titled “Curse Against Book Stealers,” describing a curse from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona that threatens severe punishments—including being bitten by serpents, afflicted with disease, gnawed by bookworms, and consumed by the flames of Hell—for anyone who steals a book from the library.

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 6d

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Edgar Allen Poe:

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

More thoughts about this quote on my blog:
kendrakandlestar.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/w...

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to be presenting at the fall BCTLA conference on Oct 24.

My topic: The Creative Storm: 9 things I’ve learned about creativity from writing for—& teaching it to—kids.

I will be covering AI, the value of human process, classroom strategies, & the concept of creative health

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 11d

Loved doing this podcast with James!

James McCann Books @james-mccann-books.bsky.social · 11d

One of my projects for 2025 has been to remaster the podcast series I did with @leefodi.bsky.social back in 2009. So far, I have a handful of episodes finished.
Hard to believe that was 16 years ago. See comments 4 more.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/aut...

#authorlife #podcast #books #canlit #kidlit

Authors Like Us

A podcast about everything you didn't want to know about the authors you love.

www.podomatic.com

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 13d

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Linus Pauling:

“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas.”

More thoughts about this quote on my blog:
kendrakandlestar.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/w...

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 19d

This author’s eye brings you a one-legged letter A being greeted by a persistent plant.
I found this scene in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia—nothing contrived about this photo! It’s just the way I saw it.

#AEye #authorsEye #artistsEye #betterthanAI

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 20d

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Lucy Liu:

“I think it’s important to make a mess because sometimes that’s how creative things happen.”

More thoughts about this quote on my blog:
kendrakandlestar.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/w...

“I think it’s important to make a mess because sometimes that’s how creative things happen.” Lucy Liu

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 24d

One of my favourite parts of my creative writing program for kids is when I get to hand out the finished books from the previous term! I love seeing my students’ reactions, and to see them swap copies, give autographs, and flip through the worlds they imagined. I am super proud of them.

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 26d

Took this pic while touring the HMCS Sackville in Halifax. You might say this is an unremarkable bit of rope, but it caught my Author’s Eye. If you ask me, this tiny noose serves as a warning to any would-be pixie-pirates to not cause mischief . .
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#AEye #authorsEye #artistsEye #betterthanAI

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · 27d

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from beloved Canadian Children’s author, Lucy Maud Montgomery:

“How we all love to create! It is a little bit of the divine in us.”

More thoughts about this quote on my blog:
kendrakandlestar.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/w...

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Sep 4

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from painter Henri Matisse:

“Creativity takes courage.”

More thoughts about this quote on my blog:
kendrakandlestar.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/w...

Creativity takes courage - Henri Matisse

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · Sep 4

For artists interested in illustrating #KidLit: Wondering how to develope an illustration style? Gaining confidence as an artist? How to get "good enough at art" to illustrate children's bks? See my #PictureBooks101 post:

debbieohi.com/2025/09/pict... #KidLitArtist

Illustration of a cup holding paintbrushes and pencils, with text: “PICTURE BOOKS 101 for artists.” At the bottom: “©Debbie Ridpath Ohi - DebbieOhi.com/PBcreation.”

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 31

Norma was such a kind and warm-hearted soul. I have many fond memories of her and she did so much to support both myself and the Canadian kid lit community. A real loss.

CWILL BC @cwillbc.bsky.social · Aug 31

In Memoriam: Norma Charles

It is with heavy hearts that CWILL shares that Norma Charles, one of our longest serving and most cherished members, passed away on August 19 after an illness. Norma was a talented author and an integral member of the kidlit community in BC and Canada. She served as a…

In Memoriam: Norma Charles

It is with heavy hearts that CWILL shares that Norma Charles, one of our longest serving and most cherished members, passed away on August 19 after an illness. Norma was a talented author and an integral member of the kidlit community in BC and Canada. She served as a membership committee coordinator for CWILL and was ever ready to offer a friendly greeting and a warm smile to our members, old and new.

cwillbc.wordpress.com

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 28

We can imagine its condition is the result of time and weather, but if you are like me, and inclined to meander into fairytale, then you can conjure all manner of spooks and spirits who might stalk the surrounding woods in the deep of night.

#a-eye #authorseye #betterthanAI #artistseye

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 28

This Author’s Eye brings you a fractured doorknob on an old (but not forgotten) cottage door.

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 25

Great night on the Lunenburg Ghost Tour. We even got a glimpse at the crypt beneath the church. The Victorian architecture really evokes a spooky vibe.

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 18

This A-Eye (that’s Author’s Eye!) brings you the slow march of time and those of us who linger in the unseen spaces.

#a-eye #authorseye #betterthanAI

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think it’s pretty well known across the webosphere that I love doors, that I take photos of them everywhere I go. Well, here’s a new one for the collection. Not only does it include a cool dragon, but my name is actually on it!

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Time to fly back home after an amazing When Worlds Collide, where I got to talk about the things I love, hang out with funny, warm, and generous writers, and explore my own craft. It was my privilege to be a featured author! Thank you to The Alexandra Writers Centre and all the volunteers.

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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · Aug 14

Celebrating the 2024-2025 Canada-Korea Year of Cultural Exchanges at the Embassy of Canada to Korea in Seoul with other Creative Writing for Children Society educators (& @cwillbc.bsky.social friends!) including @leefodi.bsky.social was such a highlight of our time there!

2 quick reminders (🧵1/2)

Creative Writing for Children Society mentors Greg Brown, Stacey Matson, K.A. Wiggins and Lee Edward Födi at the Embassy of Canada to Korea in Seoul in a posed photograph with a standing banner for the 2024-2025 Canada-Korea Year of Cultural Exchanges in front of a red wall with impressions of maple leaves.

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Love this fan art from The Secret of Zoone sent in by a reader—an animated segment of Ozzie and Salamanda approaching Master Nymm’s chambers! SO much fun.

#kidlit #middlegradebooks

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Heading out today for When Worlds Collide Literary Festival and looking forward to a fun weekend of events—delivering and attending!

#wwc2025 #alexandrawriters #literaryfestival

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 13

When Words Collide happens this weekend, and one of the events I’m most excited for is the Hero-and-Villian pre-conference party. I put together a costume, cobbling together existing components from past costumes and creating some new pieces. Am I a hero or a villain? We’ll see…

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Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social · Aug 13

When Words Collide happens this weekend, and I’m honoured to be a speaker at this event!

Please stop by my sessions and bring me your ideas, questions, and creative energy!

I’m here to connect, create, and build community—despite my innate introvert state.

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