Trailer for new “Comic Shift” by Ted Staunton. Is this crazy or what?!

 

Song “This Place is Your Place” about Ted’s new book with son Will, “It Seemed Like A Good Idea… Canadian Feats, Facts & Flubs” (Scholastic Canada, 2020)! Banjo by John Milne!

 

How to make a picture book of your own! See Ted’s new book Friends for Real (illustrated by Ruth Ohi):

 

Of the four connected books about kids with wonky superpowers (The Almost Epic Squad), authors Richard Scrimger Irresistible and Ted What Blows Up read aloud from theirs:

 

The fun and easy process of plotting a story using a storyboard:

 

Five tips on how to write a mystery story of your own! Examples from his mystery book Bounced:

 

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Ted tells the story of how he first became an author:

 

Ted demonstrates how a Resonator guitar is played and how it sounds… really loud:

 

Go banjo! Ted picks a lively tune on this happy instrument:

 

Interview by Shannon MacKinnon, Artist’s Toolbox Youtube Channel:

 

Interview on the Jan Spragge Show, Northumberland 89.7 FM:

 

Accepting the 2014 John Spray Mystery Award:

 

“Ain’t no need ye all to be treatin’ me this way”: