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Moderator: Ali Hewitt

Author: JAY ODJICK, Kaboom! Volume 1: Blast Off (Scholastic Books) Ages 8-12

Please join renowned author JAY ODJICK, as he reads from his latest book JAY ODJICK, Kaboom! Volume 1: Blast Off (Scholastic Books) for World Read Aloud Day.
In this series launch, acclaimed creator and lifelong comics fan Jay Odjick introduces a superhero who is a F.U.S.I.O.N agents on a mission to protect Indigenous artifacts from a nefarious tomb-robber!

JAY ODJICK is an artist and writer from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Algonquin community, just outside of Maniwaki, Quebec. He has created comic books and produced the animated TV series Kagagi: The Raven, which airs in Canada, the US and Australia. He previously illustrated Robert Munsch's picture books Blackflies, Bear for Breakfast/Makwa kidji kijebà wìsiniyàn as well as The Ocean Goes on Forever, which appears in the anthology Munsch Mania. He is thrilled to be able to join forces with Robert Munsch to bring stories about today's Indigenous kids to a broad audience. Visit him online at www.kagagi.squarespace.com.

World Read Aloud Day was created in NYC by a little boy and Pam Allyn as they were reading aloud together. Now, WRAD is celebrated on the first Wednesday of every February and has reached many millions of people.