About the Author

Karen Levine

Karen Levine is a prizewinning producer with CBC Radio. She worked for many years on CBC programs including As It Happens, The Sunday Edition and This Morning as producer of the “First Person Singular” series. Karen has won awards for her radio work, including two Peabody Awards(the Oscars of radio). Levine originally produced Hana’s Suitcase as a radio documentary and later made it into a book. Though she travels widely (most recently to Australia and Japan) to talk about the book, she makes her home in Toronto with her partner and her son.

Sher, Emil

Emil Sher’s works include stage plays, screenplays, radio dramas and essays. His plays for young audiences include Bluenose and Beneath the Banyan Tree. Following its world premiere at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre (Toronto), Emil’s adaptation of Hana’s Suitcase toured Canada twice, has been staged in St. Louis (U.S. premiere) Chicago, Lexington and Milwaukee and will be staged in Israel in 2010. In 2005, Emil created Breadbox Theatre, designed especially to engage younger students from Kindergarten to Grade 2. Works-in-progress include two commissioned plays: alphabet sop, a musical about dyslexia for the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre, and Conviction, a play about wrongful convictions for Studio 180. Mourning Dove is a play inspired by a true story of mercy killing. For more information about Emil’s work, please visit www.emilsher.com

Book Info

ISBN: 978-1-897187-05-0
172 Pages
Ages 9 and up
7.5" x 9"
Paperback with B&W Photographs
$18.95 CAD
March 1, 2006