Sonja Dunn
Sonja is a drama consultant, storyteller,
author/performer, actor , television producer, drama specialist
and former teacher. She has her own brand of children's
literature, a mix of traditional fairytale- with a difference-
rythms, rhymes, chanting, and poetry with fun. Known for
her storyskirt, story hat and puppets, she storytells in
her own style.
She was just five when her mother passed away.
So it was her father who would shape her interests and point
her to a career in music and education.
Sonja wrote, produced and hosted her own TV
show , "Sonja Dunn and company". She writes hosts and produced,
"Books Alive with Sonja Dunn." "Lifestyles' amd "Sonja Story
Tree" for Cable 10 Etobicoke TV .She likes to travel and
do a variety of workshops internationally. One of her recent
trips was to the Ukraine where she appeared at a Canadian
children's book festival. She has an innovative and creative
way of bringing words to life.
Her first book "Butterscotch Dreams" featured
70 chants and her second "Crackers and Crumbs" has 80 poems.
Sonja has retold fairytales as raps in Rapunzel's Rap and
Beauty and the Beast Rap".
Recently saw Sonya at the Writers' Union Conference
in Toronto!
Thank you Sonya for being who you are!
Published Works
Kozbar's Children - Fitzhenry and Whiteside - 6 poems and 1
Story "Changing Graves"
Math Chants , Curriculum Plus 2006 , Toronto
All Together Now; 200 of Sonja Dunn's best
chants, Pembroke Publishers, 1999,2000
Uncivilizing, Insomniac Press, 1997
Keeping Fit: Let Me Read Series, Ontario, Addison Wesley
Longman Ltd., 1994
Gimmie a Break, Rattlesnake, Stoddart Publishing Co., 1994;
illus. Mark Thurman
Primary Rhymery, Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1993; illus.
Mark Thurman
Beauty and the Beast Rapo, Moonstone Press, 1993; illus.
Susan Darrach
Rapunzel's Rap, Moonstone Press, 1992; illus. Andrea Wayne
von Konigslow
Crackers and Crumbs, Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1990
Butterscotch Dreams, Pembroke Publishers limited, 1987
Sonja Dunn on Tape, Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1994; audio
cassette
Chanting with Sonja Dunn, Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1993;
videotape
Awards Sister Maris Stella Award, Northern Ontario Council
of Teachers of English, 1989
Arts Award, Sudbury Arts Festival Association, 1978
Drama Scholarship Award, Banff School of Fine Arts, 1969
