Cosy Story Hour - Blue Metropolis

In 2020, Blue Metropolis and its partners were pleased to offer parents and children a daily online rendezvous: the Blue Metropolis Cosy Story Hour, featuring 10 authors, 10 tales, each morning at 10.

Each day, from April 10 to 20, 2020, Quebec children’s authors and friends of the Festival took turns, during each episode, communicating their love of children’s literature and inviting the very young to explore the magical world of stories and tales. From Indigenous legends to all things enchanted, while not forgetting the ABCs, this delightful interlude appealed the whole family and entertained the very young during this period of confinement.

Each 20-minute episode of Blue Metropolis Cosy Story Hour have been broadcasted live on Facebook.

The youth literature is also the Young Adult literature….

Discover what Monique Polak one of the most prominent YA authors and participants of the Cosy story hour have to say.

The stories, read by the authors themselves, demonstrated yet again the variety and richness of children’s literature, and in particular, that of Quebec and Canada. In addition, a number of the topics are in keeping with the values promoted by Blue Metropolis Foundation, such as diversity, social integration, education, and self-esteem, and provide opportunities for engaging in interesting discussions as a family.

“Cozy Hour” extended thanks to ELAN

An extended version of the project has been made possible thanks to the generosity of ELAN (English Language Arts Network) which has funded the fees of 5 English-speaking authors from Quebec.
These authors were on our “virtual” spotlight for the delight of children and parents from April 20 to 25.

A multilingual cosy story hour

Finally, the Cosy Story Hour has been extended into Spanish and Portuguese (on 26 and 27 April 2020), thanks to the generous support of Gina Beltrán, Director of Development, a Concordia University graduate, and writer and professor Claudio Palomares.

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