Children in Kenya reading my book, Skate Freak.
Photos courtesy of Eric Walters.
Lesley Choyce is the author of 65 books and winner of The Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award as well as being shortlisted for many other awards.
Thunderbowl
Famous At Last
Couleurs Troubles
Falling Through the Cracks
Big Burn
The
Dark End of
Full Tilt
Good Idea Gone Bad
Clearcut Danger
Wrong Time,
Some Kind of Hero
Hungry Lizards
Wavewatch
Skate freaks Og Graesrodder
Skateboard Shakedown
Choyce has a feeling for the young and dispossessed, for the terrible angst of adolescence and the rituals of rebellion- THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Stunning originality and lyrical brilliance.- THE VANCOUVER SUN
He risks everything.- THE CALGARY HERALD
His body of work defies categorization.- MACLEANS
A national treasure.- OTTAWA CITIZEN
Nova Scotia's answer to the Renaissance man.- PETER GZOWSKI, CBC RADIO
He looks just like Keith Richards.- VICKI GABEREAU, CBC RADIO
Who knows what he'll concoct next.- ST. JOHN EVENING TELEGRAM
Thoreau in our midst.- TORONTO STAR
Skip the scandal sheets and pick up Lesley Choyce -KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD
Life enhancing, life celebrating.- QUILL AND QUIRE
Lesley Choyce has an avalanche of fans.- THE HALIFAX DAILY NEWS
There is a kind of Zen peacefulness to his cyclical interpretation of history.- THE EDMONTON JOURNAL
Controlled, fluid, wry and passionate, Choyce is the consummate professional.- HALIFAX DAILY NEWS
Like Stephen Leacock meets Shirley MacLaine.- THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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