Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) funded Toronto-based author Rukhsana Khan to write a book about emigrating to Canada. Coming to Canada was officially launched last week by CIC and will be distributed to Ontario public libraries in June and to elementary schools in the fall and to all newly arrived immigrant children in Canada.
<Update: Coming to Canada was re-packaged as A New Life>.
This is good news, indeed! What a great resource the book will be! Rukhsana has been a visiting author at my son’s school in the past, and she is fantastic. It was very exciting for our students, many of whom also come from Pakistan, to have a wonderful, engaging, successful author who shares their background. She is a great role model, and I’m sure the book will be terrific.