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ERIC WALTERS is the highly acclaimed and bestselling author of sixty-five novels for children and young adults. His novels have won the Silver Birch Award and the Red Maple Award, as well as numerous other prizes, including the White Pine, Snow Willow, Tiny Torgi, Ruth Schwartz, and IODE Violet Downey Book Awards, and have received honours from the Canadian Library Association Book Awards, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, and UNESCO’s international award for Literature in Service of Tolerance. Eric is the founder of The Creation of Hope (www.creationofhope.com), an organization that provides care, support, and hope for orphans in Kenya. He has donated royalties from many of his novels to promote humanitarian causes.
To find out more about Eric and his novels, or to arrange for him to speak at your school, visit his website at www.ericwalters.net.