Vikki VanSickle, author portrait
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Vikki VanSickle

VIKKI VANSICKLE is the author of a number of acclaimed novels for children including The Lightning Circle, Words That Start With B; Summer Days, Starry Nights; the award-winning The Winnowing; and picture books How to Decorate a Christmas Tree, If I Had a Gryphon; Teddy Bear of the Year; Anonymouse and Into the Goblin Market. Vikki started her career as an independent bookseller and worked in children's publishing for twelve years. In addition to writing, she curates and presents regular book segments for CTV Your Morning. Currently, she lives and writes in Toronto.
Mother Boo: Poems from Spookytown
Into the Goblin Market
How to Decorate a Christmas Tree
If I Had a Gryphon
Anonymouse
Teddy Bear of the Year

Books

Mother Boo: Poems from Spookytown
Into the Goblin Market
How to Decorate a Christmas Tree
If I Had a Gryphon
Anonymouse
Teddy Bear of the Year

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