Amanda Halfpenny is the Events and Program Coordinator for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. She graduated with a BA in Literature from Université Laval and then launched her career at La Maison Anglaise et Internationale, a small but mighty independent bookstore in Quebec City. She then completed her Masters in Library and Information Studies at McGill University and has worked in both official languages in public and school libraries and as a professor at the School of English and Liberal Studies at Seneca College. She is also married to a librarian and is a parent to two adorable book-loving children.