Children's book author and CTV Your Morning book segment host, Vikki VanSickle, joins Jael and Lin to discuss the reading epidemic among kids. Why don't they like to read and what cab teachers, parents, and adults do to inspire a love of reading in the next generation?

About Vikki VanSickleVikki VanSickle has worked as a bookseller, a menstrual health educator, a creative writing instructor and publishing professional with Penguin Random House Canada. Currently, she lives and writes in Toronto and hosts a book segment on CTV Your Morning.

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In this episode of Into the FOLD, Jael and Lin get spicy about book titles and book covers. Reacting to social media posts, their controversial opinions fly about bad titles, bad covers, hard cover books, and author blurbs.

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In this episode of Into the FOLD, author and editor katherena vermette join Jael and Lin to talk about race shifting, pretendians, and how she addresses the issue in her book, Real Ones.

About katherena vermette

katherena vermette (she/her/hers) is a Michif (Red River Métis) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Born in Winnipeg, her Michif roots on her paternal side run deep in St. Boniface, St. Norbert and beyond. Her maternal side is Mennonite from the Altona and Rosenfeld area (Treaty 1).

She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, and an honourary Doctor of Letters from the University of Manitoba. katherena lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River.

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