Book launch, Seeing Red, by Anne Louise MacDonald, Apr 17, 2009 |
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poster / 3533 0906219 viewsMain character of MacDonald's Seeing Red is Antigonish skateboarder!
The main character and narrator of Seeing Red, by Antigonish author Anne Louise MacDonald, is thirteen-year old Frankie Uccello, an Antigonish skateboarder who dreams and volunteers with therapeutic horse riding. The story is set in a time when Antigonish doesn't have a skatepark.
The book launch was organized by Pictou Antigonish Regional Library (PARL) and was held in the Town Hall Council Chambers.
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Author Anne Louise MacDonald reading from Seeing Red11 viewsMacDonald read for about 45 minutes. After reading the first three chapters, she asked if anyone would like her to continue. Three hands shot up, belonging to three young skateboarders, also AHSA members. Christian won one of three door prizes which included a copy of the book. Afterwards he and friend Justin G. asked MacDonald what page she had stopped reading on, so they would know where to start. Shyla jumped at the chance to borrow AHSA's copy of Seeing Red.
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cutting the cake10 viewsAuthor Anne Louise MacDonald cutting cake, skateboarder/AHSA member Justin Greencorn & local author Sheldon Currie (background). Currie introduced Anne Louise MacDonald.
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"Boarding was hard, really hard! Once I'd learned to stay upright most of the time, I liked it a lot. On a good day it was relaxing. Push, push, glide. Push, push, glide. Carving from side to side down a long slow hill. On a bad day it was stressful--when tricks that I knew, simple ollies and grinds, went bizaarely wrong and every window in the house watched me fall.
"But I kept on practicing. The good days were so worth it. Even though it took me a month to learn what some guys could learn in a day, landing a trick was so cool. And fast downhill runs were really rippin'. Not that I did anything too crazy, like flinging myself off a flight of stairs. I knew my limits. I just wanted to have fun--and be able to do it again the next day." - p. 8
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cake7 viewsExcerpt from Seeing Red:
"After a year I mastered the kickturn frontside and backside, could hold a manual for more than ten feet, ollie pretty darn high, grind curbs and do a passable kickflip. I learned the hard way not to get my board wet and let it stay wet. Rusty bearings lock. Board stops. Rider doesn't. I also learned how to fall without using my hands, get up and walk it off. And how the four kinds of bandages stocked in my backpack could be applied with just my teeth.
"I often hung out with the other skaters when they practiced on curbs, steps or the convent's curved retaining wall with the sweet spot at one end. They never thought about getting hurt; they just rode. And offered tips to newbies like me, and never minded that I was totally normal with no real talent for skateboarding." - p. 8
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display8 viewsThere were three door prizes consisting of gift bags containing books.
Other books by Anne Louise MacDonald include:
Nanny Mac's Cat, The Memory Stone, The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green, and more!
AHSA purchased a copy of Seeing Red which is available on request.
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Author Anne Louise MacDonald, Christian, Justin & Chucky (AHSA members)8 viewsChapter 3 describes Frankie's first attempt to skate down Hawthorne Street:
"I was about halfway down, the board was my friend... when I realized that I had no idea how to stop! I dragged the sole right off of my sneaker, then bailed. Most of me made it to the bottom. Some skin decorated the concrete, and my knee bled like a waterfall." - p. 18-19
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display10 viewsExcerpt from Seeing Red:
"Most people already thought skaters were all dummies and dropouts. Sure, a lot of the guys didn't do so well in school and the RCMP knew many of the them by their first names, but our skateboarding club had members from elementary school to university students and even two guys who owned their own computer business.
"And then there was Graham, the only kid in ninth grade younger than me, but smarter than all of us put together--lazy but smart. Graham helped me learn my best trick, a one-eighty kickflip. He was a flatland artist, though he was as eager as the rest of us to test the ramps in the new skateboard park (if it ever got built). -p. 19
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group14 viewsShyla (front left, skateboarder/AHSA), Rachel (AHSA), Richelle (skateboarder/AHSA); Lorraine (back row, PARL), author Anne Louise MacDonald, Gavin (skateboarder/AHSA)
The book launch was organized by PARL (Pictou Antigonish Regional Library).
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"Mr. Billings, the vice-principal, shouted from the main entrance, "There will be no skateboarding in the schoolyard before four P.M.!" - p. 27
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Teen space at the Library poster9 viewsMonday May 4, 2009, Teen Space at the Library, 5:00-6:30 P.M. @ John Paul Centre. A planning session to invite input from teens about what they'd like to see at the new public library. Free pizza in exchange for your ideas!
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