The Queen Makes a Winter Tour of Ontario Schools

The Queen in her coach, setting off for her Winter tour of Ontario Schools

After a rather trying Christmas, our dear Queen, Elizabeth II, will be making a bracing winter tour of Ontario with her favourite children’s author, Charis Cotter. There is nothing Her Royal Highness likes better than teaching little Canadians to bow and curtsey as she introduces Charis and her book, Kids Who Rule: The Remarkable Lives of Five Child Monarchs. http://chariscotter.com/kids_who_rule.html.

HRH has entertained children with Charis from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John’s, Newfoundland, and finds it all a very refreshing change from her duties at Buckingham Palace.

Charis is also looking forward to visiting Ontario schools and engaging students from Grade 3 to 5 in the boisterous trivia game, RULE YOUR SCHOOL, as she quizzes them about the five child rulers in her book. This exhilarating game gets the kids on their feet as they vie for the enviable position of first place, when all the other students have to bow and curtsey to them. http://chariscotter.com/school_presentations.html#kidsrule.

Everyone has fun and the students leave knowing a lot more about Ancient Egypt, Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries,  and Tibet and China in the 20th century, all seen through the eyes of the young monarchs.

The Queen sincerely hopes you will choose to brighten up the winter at your school with a royal visit in January, February or March.

For more information, contact Charis at: chariscotter@gmail.com. Or go to her website: www.chariscotter.com.

The blog begins

Picnic Lunch at the Ferryland Lighthouse

It’s a sunny April day in Toronto and my blog begins.   This picture was taken on a sunny August day last summer in Newfoundland.  The Ferryland picnics are a popular treat for tourists and locals: you order your lunch ahead and walk out to the lighthouse, where they give you the goodies in a wicker basket, with a blanket to sit on.  I sat with my nephews watching two exhibitionist whales put on an amazing jumping show while we devoured our delicious lunch.

So as you can imagine, I am counting the days till my annual migration to Newfoundland in June. Meanwhile, I’m visiting schools in Toronto with my Kids Who Rule presentation and gearing up for a week-long trip to British Columbia in May. The Richmond Public Library is sponsoring me to come to visit libraries and schools as a Red Cedar Award finalist.

The Queen (Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II) and I are looking forward to playing “Rule Your School” with 400 Red Cedar readers in Richmond, Vancouver, North Vancouver and Victoria.