By Colleen Flanagan, Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News
Award winning Canadian author Eric Walters paid a visit to Yennadon Elementary on Tuesday, March 3.
The author of more than 140 books for children and youth all the way to Grade 11, Walters was invited to speak at the school by teacher librarian Candace White.
Walters has travelled across the country and even internationally to give presentations to students. He has presented to more than two million children across North America and in Japan, Kenya, and Germany.
This trip was a year in the making. “I like to see if I can inspire them to be more interested in reading, to see writers as real,” said Walters, just before his presentation to a kindergarten class at Yennadon.
“Reading is the basis of everything academically,” he noted.