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Mireille Messier

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Mireille Messier is a bilingual Canadian children's writer with a background in broadcasting and theatre. Before becoming an author, Mireille worked as a television and radio host, a director, a researcher, a book reviewer and a voice actress. Sometimes, she still does those things, too. One of her first "literary" jobs was writing jokes for the bottom of pudding lids!Since the launch of her first book in 2003, Mireille has published over twenty books. Mireille lives in Toronto with her husband, two wonderful teenage children and three extremely fluffy cats.

Natasha Wing

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Why am I a writer? When I was a young girl, I wanted to be a teacher. I'd line up my stuffed animals in front of a board and teach them the alphabet and how to count. In high school I wanted to be a tennis player. I was on the tennis team, and played at our neighborhood tennis club. Then in college I thought digging dinosaur bones would be a cool job. It wasn't until I was working at my own public relations agency that I decided I really wanted to write children's books. I was so inspired by the magic of reading a book that I wanted to see if my active imagination could create magical moments for kids...