Toronto, Ep. 5 (Kids Edition)

October 24, 2021 — Because one event with Toronto International Festival of Authors wasn't enough, we returned with our LDM Kids Edition, using kid judges from Mrs. Minor’s 6th Grade class, in a wild epic that saw Joseph Coelho narrowly topple Ashley Spires in a wild Arithme-Lit finale that won Coelho the Literary Death Match Toronto, Ep. 5 crown, and literary immortality to go with it. 

Here's the full lineup from the event: 

JUDGES: 
Literary Merit: Ophira Eisenberg, standup comedian, author, host of NPR's Ask Me Another and frequent host of The Moth

Performance & Intangibles: Judged by 18 brilliant 6th-graders from Mrs. Minor’s classroom at Hawthorne Village School in Milton, Ontario

READERS:
Round 1:
* Basil & Kevin Sylvester, co-authors of The Fabulous Zed Watson!

* Ashley Spires, author and illustrator of best-sellers The Most Magnificent Thing and the Binky The Space Cat series

Round 2: 
* Ruth Ohi, a Toronto based author and illustrator of 21 picture books including Scribble, the Fox and Squirrel Series and her latest, Choose Kindness

* Joseph Coelho, the Carnegie Children's Award-shortlisted author of Zombierella: Fairy Tales Gone Bad and My Beautiful Voice, along with being a playwright and award-winning poet

 Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga.

When: October 24, 2:30 p.m. EST 
Cost: Free (watch now)