Diane Therrien (Kamon)
Introduction[edit]
Diane Therrien (pen name Kamon) is a Canadian author and illustrator of children's books.[1]
Early years[edit]
Diane Therrien is an author and illustrator of Abenaki descent, was born in Nicolet, Quebec in 1957 to Guy Therrien (1937-2015) and mother, Louise Goudreault (1933-2021). She has one sibling, a brother called Eric Therrien. Diane was a pupil at École Élémentaire Curée Brassard, Nicolet, after that she did classical (compulsory Latin) secondary school in Collège Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, also in Nicolet. After her parents divorced, she moved to Trois-Rivières with her mother and brother. She was a boarder in Collège Laflèche (Trois-Rivières Qc., Canada), where she studied for 2 year Literature and philosophy before entering in Université du Québec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Diane did a Baccalaureate in Education and got her teaching license in January, 1985.
Early career and Humanitarian Efforts[edit]
Diane started her career as a high school teacher, and was educated in acupunture in Montreal all before moving to Thailand in the year 1997. During her time in Thailand, she continued teaching and also worked as a library manager for more than 20 years.[2]
Her work in Phuket included outreach programs with local children where she, as well as projects to engage local orphan children in reading and writing activities. She had been noted for saying "The idea is that Book Week promotes the love of reading. If it is fun, entertaining and if it fits all levels of abilities, it really works. So please don't prepare a Book Week only for the book lovers."[3]
She has started her writing career during her years as a teacher in Thailand.[4][5] She also served as the BIS academic resource manager. In September 2003, Therrien, fluent in Thai, had signed up with the Canadian Embassy in Bangkok as a volunteer warden to assist Canadian nationals in emergencies.[6]
Diane Therrien not only taught but was also noted humanitarian recognized by the Canadian government for her efforts to assist in the 2004 Tsunami.[7] As a Canadian volunteer, Diane Therrien of Trois-Rivières, who has lived in Thailand for 25 years, assisted in the post Tsunami relief. As an unpaid warden for the Canadian embassy, she had devoted time to the relief effort during the human tragedy that followed the tsunami. With electricity and telephones down, she was delegated by the embassy to visit hospitals and hotels all over Krabi region, searching for Canadians and finding dozens of survivors. Then she helped identify corpses, where hundreds of bodies of tsunami victims had arrived from the devastated resorts of Phi Phi island. Accompanied by her mother and along with a Thai friend, Khun Pranee Yuenyongvanichakij, they worked for 12 hours a day. They visited hospitals, police stations, immigration offices, the ferry port where the corpses were arriving, and the Chinese temple where they were stored. They rented equipment and hotel rooms for emergency workers. They helped the survivors to get documents to replace their lost passports so they could go back to Canada. They gathered photos of the dead and searched carefully for missing Canadians.
"I felt it was my duty," said Ms. Therrien, who was the head librarian at British International School in Phuket at that time. [8] More articles were written about her efforts after the Tsunami.
In 2008 Ms. Therrien through the charity initiative, Friends of BIS, bought school uniforms for local orphan students and bought, with Book Week profits, school books on all academic subjects for prisoners (Phuket jail).[9] Diane resigned as a school teacher in 2014 and currently gives tutoring lessons online so she can have more time to write and illustrate her children's picture books under the pen name of KAMON.
Writing[edit]
Ms. Therrien (KAMON) has published over 96 titles since 2009. She writes in both French and English and so far has no affiliation to any publishing house.[2]
Kamon's books often make reference to the life of 21st-century children with titles that tackle a wide array of issues like mindfulness, environment, common sense, being laughed at or, being cheated. Kamon also writes and illustrates Abenaki legends. These legends show the Amerindian wisdom as well as its use today's world. [10]Kamon children's books are available in paperbacks and eBook on Amazon.com and various eBook selling websites.
Bibliography[edit]
| Main title | release | Series volume titles | release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hooty and the Magic Power | 2009 | 2009 | |
| Justin and Britney | 2010 | 2010 | |
| Clint the Lint Keeper | 2010 | 2010 | |
| Mother Earth Loses her Hat and Boots | 2011 | 2011 | |
| Weewee | 2012 | 2012 | |
| Nif, Fin, and the Leftover | 2012 | 2012 | |
| Playtoon series | (2010-present) | Playtoon and the AntPhone | 2010 |
| Playtoon and the BugTube | 2011 | ||
| Playtoon and Colonel Lex | 2012 | ||
| Playtoon and the Crap SMS | 2013 | ||
| Playtoon and the Fight | 2014 | ||
| The Yellow Butterfly | 2012 | 2012 | |
| Who stole Jack’s Axe? | 2013 | 2013 | |
| Jay’s World series | 2010-present | Jay’s New Game | 2010 |
| Don’t tell Lies Jay | 2011 | ||
| Jay’s Coach Learns a Lesson | 2015 | ||
| Loulou’s Choice | 2012 | 2012 | |
| Phil’s Reef | 2013 | 2013 | |
| !Oh...No! | 2013 | 2013 | |
| There Once Was a River Stone | 2014 | 2014 | |
| The Onion and the Pearl | 2015 | 2015 | |
| Wally the Wannabe Pet | 2015 | 2015 | |
| Yeah, I am Happy Now! | 2015 | 2015 | |
| While: A story of Time around the World | 2016 | 2016 | |
| The Mahogany Dancer | 2016 | 2016 | |
| The Adventures of Gluskabe Series | 2017-present | volume 1 The Coming | 2017 |
| volume 2 Giants in the Forest | 2017 | ||
| volume 3 The Game Bag | April 2018 | ||
| volume 4 Skunk | May 2018 | ||
| volume 5 The Legend of the Maple Syrup | July 2019 | ||
| volume 6 Against the Wind | March 2020 | ||
| volume 7 The River Thief | August 2020 | ||
| 2022 | volume 8 Tolba | March 2022 | |
| 2023 | volume 9 Gluskabe Stole the Tobacco | May 2023 | |
| Gabriel | 2017 | 2017 | |
| A Cautionary Tale of Gossip | 2019 | Aug. 2019 | |
| The Little Chameleon ( Readers Level 2) | 2019-present | volume 1 First Pet First Friend | July 2019 |
| Volume 2 A Crow in Tow | February 20
20 | ||
| Baguette Blanchette | 2021 | A name calling story - Une histoire de sobriquet | 2021 |
References[edit]
- ↑ Kamon. "Diane Therrien". AUTHORSdb: Author Database, Books and Top Charts. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About the author". Kamon the author. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ↑ Com, The Phuket News. "Phuket: PIADS 'Book Week' great success". The Phuket News Com. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
- ↑ "Pour transmettre les bonnes valeurs - Le Courrier Sud". Le Courrier Sud (in français). 2017-07-29. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ↑ "scholastic.asia". scholastic.asia.
- ↑ "Canada World view" (PDF). http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2011/aecic-faitc/E12-15-25-2005-eng.pdf. issue 5: 11. Spring 2005. External link in
|journal=(help) - ↑ "Humanitarian recognition letter". amazonaws.com. Archived from the original on
|archive-url=requires|archive-date=(help). Retrieved 28 March 2018. - ↑ "Tireless hours in the fields of death". Retrieved 2018-03-28.
- ↑ "thethaiger.com" (PDF). Phuket Gazzete. 12 July 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ↑ "Kamon". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
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