meet author bonnie farmer

1 T h e P e t i t P r o u s t Q u e s t i o n n a i r e f r o m O w l k i d s B o o k s Downloaded from OwlkidsBooks.com/ResourcesActivities/TheInsideTrack When you were a kid, what was your favorite thing to do? Sitting in the window seat under the gabled roof, watching people go by. What did you most dislike doing when you were a child? Getting dressed to go outside in the wintertime. As a child, where did you dream of living? Inside a Barbie playhouse. What did you think you were good at when you were a kid? Seeing the beauty in gasoline rainbows. When you were a kid in school, what did you look for in a friend? Someone who liked to giggle as much as I did. What did you want to be when you grew up? Because I was tall and gangly, I thought I could be a model. What was your favorite book as a child? I loved the fairy tale of Cinderella. What is your favorite pastime now? Scrapbooking. Long before Oscar Peterson became a virtuoso jazz pianist, he was a boy who loved to play the trumpet. When a bout of childhood tuberculosis weakened his lungs, Oscar could no longer play his beloved instrument. He took up piano and the rest is history. Oscar Lives Next Door is a story inspired by this musician’s childhood, set in his Montreal neighborhood of Little Burgundy. Meet author Bonnie Farmer 978-1-77147-104-6 $17.95 CDN / $16.95 US BONNIE FARMER is an elementary school teacher, a children’s book author and a playwright living in Montreal, Quebec. She spent part of her early childhood in Little Burgundy, the same neighborhood where Oscar Peterson grew up.

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The Petit Proust Questionnairefrom Owlkids Books

Downloaded from OwlkidsBooks.com/ResourcesActivities/TheInsideTrack

When you were a kid, what was your favorite thing to do?Sitting in the window seat under the gabled roof, watching people go by.

What did you most dislike doing when you were a child?Getting dressed to go outside in the wintertime.

As a child, where did you dream of living?Inside a Barbie playhouse.

What did you think you were good at when you were a kid?Seeing the beauty in gasoline rainbows.

When you were a kid in school, what did you look for in a friend?Someone who liked to giggle as much as I did.

What did you want to be when you grew up?Because I was tall and gangly, I thought I could be a model.

What was your favorite book as a child?I loved the fairy tale of Cinderella.

What is your favorite pastime now?Scrapbooking.

Long before Oscar Peterson became a virtuoso jazz pianist, he was a boy who loved to play the trumpet. When a bout of childhood tuberculosis weakened his lungs, Oscar could no longer play his beloved instrument. He took up piano and the rest is history. Oscar Lives Next Door is a story inspired by this musician’s childhood, set in his Montreal neighborhood of Little Burgundy.

Meet author Bonnie Farmer

978-1-77147-104-6$17.95 CDN / $16.95 US978-1-77147-104-6978-1-77147-104-6

BONNIE FARMER is an elementary school teacher, a children’s book author and a playwright living in Montreal, Quebec. She spent part of

her early childhood in Little Burgundy, the same neighborhood where Oscar Peterson grew up.