Lansdowne presents children's authors in Mayor’s Family Fun Zone at the Brantford Beats and Eats festival

Lansdowne Children’s Centre is presenting two children’s authors as part of the Mayor’s Family Fun Zone at the Brantford Beats and Eats festival this weekend.

Regan W. H. Macaulay and Tamara Botting (who is also the communications coordinator for Lansdowne) will be doing story times throughout the Mayor’s Family Fun Zone portion of the celebration, which runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mohawk Park (51 Lynnwood Drive). The authors will also have copies of their books available for purchase.

Macaulay is a multi-award-winning author. Her titles include Peter Little Wing, a middle-grade novel about a group of animals in New Zealand who go on an adventure to find ingredients for medicine to cure the titular Peter’s grandpa, and her recently re-released picture book, Mixter Twizzle’s Breakfast, which is about an odd creature who at first delights in his impish ways, but soon learns that his actions have isolated him from potential friends.

Botting has been a professional writer for almost 20 years. Her first book, Unfrogged (a novelization of the Frog Prince fairy tale, with a princess who is a walking disaster and a frog who is very sarcastic), came out in 2017, and since then, she’s released another chapter book titled Spoiled Rotten (about a boy who is frustrated by all the changes since his baby sister was born, so he runs away and ends up in another world with an ogre, not knowing if he’ll be able to get home again), and two picture books, Pants and Big Bother Brother.

“I’m absolutely thrilled at this opportunity to not only champion literacy in general, but also to let more people in the Brantford community know about the wide range of services, programs and resources that Lansdowne has to offer,” Botting said.