A Literary Event:
Aram’s Choice
by Marsha Skrypuch, illustrated by Muriel Wood
At 2:30 p.m.
15 International Drive,
Cambridge, Ontario.
You are invited to join author Marsha Skrypuch and illustrator Muriel Wood as they discuss the research and craft that went into the making of Aram’s Choice, a story about the Georgetown Boys.
The evening will be hosted by our very own Carl Georgian, a decendant of the Georgetown Boys.
Based on true events, Aram’s Choice, is a story that follows the life of a boy who loses his family in the Armenian genocide in Turkey and is exiled in Greece. The book follows Aram while he travels to Canada with forty-six other Armenian boys in what was Canada’s first international humanitarian effort.
Marsha first heard about the Armenian Genocide seventeen years ago while doing research for a magazine article about the first Georgetown Boys. After interviewing Carl Georgian, the son of a Georgetown Boy, Marsha was left with more questions than answers. For example, why were all of the rescued orphans male? Why were they all between the ages of eight and twelve? What happened to their parents? What happened to their sisters? Finding the answers to those questions set her on a path of more than a decade of research and resulted a number of books on the Armenian Genocide.
Marsha Skrypuch is the author of many books for children, including Silver Threads and Enough as well as her Armenian Genocide YA novels, The Hunger and Nobody’s Child, which was nominated for the Red Maple Award, the Alberta Rocky Mountain Book Award, and the B.C. Stellar Award.
Muriel Wood has been illustrating books for children since 1964, including the Canadian classic, The Olden Days Coat written by Margaret Laurence.
