Simcoe Reads 2022
- Library Zest Team
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 7, 2022
We're back!
Essa Public Library is so pleased to join in for the third annual Simcoe Reads community event. This year, we'll be able to meet in person! Essa has once again teamed up with libraries across the community to read, watch the live debate, and vote on our favourite Library Champion and book.
Similar to the popular CBC Canada Reads, libraries across Simcoe County choose a Library Champion. They in turn choose a book by a Canadian author to champion in a live debate. Then comes the really fun part: you get to join in on the action and vote on who should win.
Let's meet our Champion.
A life-long member of the Simcoe County community and hailing from Utopia, local author Krista White will be supporting Essa Public Library. A lover of story and a storyteller herself, Krista's love of books and reading really has been a deep-rooted passion. The book she's chosen to champion is Washington Black by Esi Edugyan.
Washington Black tells the story of Washington "Wash" Black, an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation. He is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again.
Join us throughout the summer in reading Washington Black and all the participating libraries' selections. Click each title below to place a hold.
Barrie Public Library has selected: Can You Hear Me Now? by Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library has selected: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Innisfil IdeaLAB and Library has chosen: Not On My Watch by Alexandra Morton
Midland Public Library has selected: The Last High by Daniel Kalla
New Tecumseth Public Library has selected: What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
Ramara Public Library has chosen: The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham
The live debate will be broadcast on Rogers TV later in September. Visit our library website, essa.library.on.ca, and head to our programming section for more details on voting for your favourite champion and book.
By Dawn Travers
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