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Brief Biography
Marjorie Speed lives a multifaceted life as a piano teacher, watercolour painter and writer. She also has many other interests, such as playing the flute, gardening and tending a large Victorian house. Marjorie's everyday life is the inspiration for her writing and painting as reflected in her children's book, Alexander's Sky Blue Eggs and her exploration of nurturing creativity, From Washdays to Watercolours: A Guide to Creativity for Teachers.
Selected List of Publications
- Alexander's Sky Blue Eggs. Roseway Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0-9698407-9-9.
- "Alexander's Sky Blue Eggs (Roseway) is a wonderful book to read with a child while you're waiting for winter to end. Marjorie Speed's paintings bring a real feeling of a Nova Scotian springtime to the story of Alexander's not-so-mysterious sky blue eggs." - from "Three eggs in a nest." Atlantic Books Today, Number 11.
- From Washdays to Watercolours: A Guide to Creativity for Teachers. Blue Egg Press, 2001. ISBN 9-780968-936801.
