Deirdre Kessler

“This is a dream or war", 2004.

Deirdre Kessler is the author of five children’s novels, including The Private Adventures of Brupp, Brupp on the Other Side, Brupp in the Land of Snow, and Brupp Rides Again, and five picture books, including Lobster in My Pocket and Lena and the Whale. She has won Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Awards for Brupp Rides Again, a young adult novel, and for Lobster in My Pocket, a children's picture book. Kessler’s poetry has been published in Landmarks: An Anthology of Atlantic Poetry, edited by Brent MacLaine and Hugh MacDonald (Acorn Press, 2001); in The New P.E.I. Poets (Ragweed, 1990); in the Toronto literary magazine paperplates; and in other poetry anthologies.