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Children's Nonfiction Composition & Creative Writing

For Those About to Write

How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

by (author) Dave Bidini

Publisher
Tundra
Initial publish date
Oct 2007
Category
Composition & Creative Writing, Careers, General

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887767692
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $12.99

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 10 to 18
  • Grade: 5 to 12

Description

Dave Bidini’s quirky personal path to becoming a writer (as well as a well-known rock musician and sports enthusiast) began when he was very young and loved to pick at the typewriter.

About the author

Dave Bidini's first book, published in 1998, was the popular and critically acclaimed On a Cold Road, about what it's like to tour Canada in a rock 'n' roll band. He has since written four more books, Tropic Of Hockey (2001), Baseballissimo (2004), For Those About to Rock (2004) and The Best Game You Can Name (2005). When he is not writing or traveling the world, Bidini is rhythm guitarist for the Rheostatics. He also starred in the Gemini Award-winning film The Hockey Nomad. Dave Bidini lives with his wife and two children in Toronto.

 

Please visit Dave at www.davebidini.ca or follow him on Facebook.

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Editorial Reviews

Praise for For Those About to Rock:

“Equal parts career guide and history lesson, For Those About to Rock tells not only how to get where you’re going, but where it all came from in the first place.”
— The Globe and Mail

“… Enormously readable … filled with first-person insights and useful information and peppered with the kind of trivia that appeals to even the nonmusical.”
— The Gazette

“This is an extraordinarily entertaining volume for kids of all ages….”
— Edmonton Journal

“One of ‘two books every Canadian musician must read.’”
–Long and McQuade

Other titles by

A Wild Stab For It

This Is Game Eight from Russia

by (author) Dave Bidini
by (photographer) Brian Pickell

Midnight Light

A Personal Journey to the North

by (author) Dave Bidini

Keon and Me

My Search For The Lost Soul Of The Leafs

by (author) Dave Bidini

The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories

by (author) Roch Carrier
translated by Sheila Fischman
introduction by Dave Bidini

Blueblood

A Team, a Fan, and His City

by (author) Dave Bidini

Writing Gordon Lightfoot

The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972

by (author) Dave Bidini

Drive By

A Road Trip with Jeff Thomas

by (author) Anna Hudson, Dave Bidini & Andrea Naomi Walsh

Hockey Town

by (author) Dave Bidini

Hockey Hall of Fame Treasures

edited by Steve Cameron
introduction by Phil Pritchard
by (photographer) Matthew Manor
contributions by Adrienne Clarkson, Dave Bidini, James Duthie & Don Gillmor

Tell Me a Story

Gordon Lightfoot and the Essence of Canada

by (author) Dave Bidini