By Brenda R. Just finished WinterFree. This was my favourite book. And since meeting you, it makes for a different read because I can hear you talk; you write just like you speak. I think many people my age would thoroughly enjoy all the books because “they lived it.” I was wondering what the reaction […]
It was such a treat for me to read all about the adventures of Buddy Williams. Thank you so much for introducing it to me. It brought so many memories of my own family and friends back into my thoughts. Even in the more sad moments, I felt as if I was part of Buddy’s […]
Until recently, without question the highlight of Ken Budd’s literary career, apart from writing, producing, or consulting for over three dozen publications, was the time he spent studying creative writing with the late W. O. Mitchell at the Banff Centre many moons ago. But, a few weeks back, near the end of October, a meeting […]
After a lengthy tour of the Prairies and their eastern fringes, including stops in Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba, the second leg of Ken Budd’s Fall Book Tour 2014 landed him on the western edge of the country, as far west as west can go. Chapters stores in downtown Victoria and at Tillicum shopping centre played […]
By Faye Evans My name is Faye Evans, and I would like to mention that when I was in Driftwood Mall in Courtenay recently, I was passing by Cole’s book store, and happened to chat briefly with Ken Budd on the unfortunate happenings that occurred in Ottawa that day. He mentioned that he was the […]
By Merv Kopperud I have just finished reading “Spring Rush.” My overall assessment was that it is an excellent book. The first few chapters were a little sleepy for me but the pace picked up and built to a fine crescendo. It left the reader with a warm sense of closure. Ken, I think there […]
With plenty of radio and newspaper interview appearances under his belt, it was time for author Ken Budd to take to the tube in the next chapter of the Adventures of Buddy Williams Fall Book Tour 2014. Near the end of the first (long) leg of the Western Canada tour Budd sits down with Susan […]
“Former North Battleford resident band retired teacher Kenneth William Budd was in North Battleford last week on a book tour marking the completion of the fourth of a four-book series for young reader readers. The series is written in the juvenile fiction genre, appropriate for Grades 5 through 9, and each book has an accompanying […]
“When B.C. author Ken Budd first began working on The Adventures of Buddy Williams, he took some of his own advice: write what you know. It turns out what he knew transcended cultures and generations. The former teacher will be at the Coles bookstore on Tuesday Sept. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. signing copies […]
As the media articles, interviews and announcements (like this one in the ) start to roll in from the first leg of author Ken Budd’s 2014 book signing and events tour, so too do the images of people and places he has visited along the way. Catch some of the latest photos snapped in Western […]
“Writer Ken Budd is an ambitious, if wonderfully nostalgic, author. The British Columbian scribe of more than 30 titles is currently on a whirlwind tour of the western provinces and is set to make his blink-and-you’ll-miss-it afternoon stop in this fair burg Wednesday afternoon. He won’t just be introducing one book to St. Albert audiences. […]
The Adventures of Buddy Williams Fall Book Tour 2014 officially kicked off on September 4th with a visit to Coles Book Stone in Chako Mall in Nelson, BC. Since then, author Ken Budd has been the focus of nearly two dozen store signings, library readings and other community events from Cranbrook to Winnipeg. And there […]
“In the fourth of a four-book series now available, former North Battleford resident Kenneth William Budd will be in the city next week, one stop on a book tour marking the completion of the series. While the series is written in the juvenile fiction genre, appropriate for Grades 5 through 9, it’s also one that […]
“Author Ken Budd is a busy man. In the midst of a full tour promoting a handful of literary efforts, he’s hitting upwards of 60 dates in more than 35 communities between now and November 8. “We’ve got it chopped up into legs to make it a bit more manageable,” he said. Since retiring as […]
“Buddy’s year of adventures is complete! SpringRush, the final chapter in THE ADVENTURES OF BUDDY WILLIAMS series. is now available to readers. And in celebration of this final release, author Ken Budd, a retired teacher, will venture across Western Canada this fall to promote the work. Over a three-month period, Budd will sign books at […]
With only a couple of weeks left before departure, time slots for book signings, public readings and media interviews are filling up fast. Author Ken Budd hits the road from the Sunshine Coast, headed for destinations in the mountains and the Prairies, on September 2. A current full itinerary is below. Please watch for changes, […]
“Avid readers of the ongoing adventures of Buddy, an energetic 11-year-old redhead, as told by local author Kenneth William Budd, will be happy to see the fourth and last book in the series, SpringRush, now on the shelves. Though Budd’s books are intended for juvenile readers of around Buddy’s age, they are set in the […]
A Review By Dave Gerry, Broadcaster, Global TV, Toronto (January, 2014) “It’s called the ‘dead of winter‘, but there is so much reverberating life amid the snow and the cold in this third book of Canadian author Ken Budd’s childhood recollections. Here are the touchstones of hitting your soon-to-be adolescent stride in the 1950’s, when […]
Review by Jayne Foster, North Battleford News Optimist (January, 2014) “…A timeless story of growing up in an era when a child’s life was very different from today…” Click on article image for full-sized review.
A Review By Dave Gerry, Broadcaster, Global TV, Toronto (December, 2012) “I am certainly not the first baby boomer to wistfully pine for those kinder, gentler, less technology-reliant times of a bygone youth. The second instalment of Ken Budd’s childhood adventure series, FallGently, does an admirable job of transporting a rapidly greying reader back to […]
When author Ken Budd approached a local middle school teacher with a small problem related to the cover of his upcoming novel, the last in his Adventures of Buddy Williams series, she knew just who could help. Within what seemed like minutes, three young lads, all very near to the age of the book’s protagonist, […]
We all know Dave Gerry loves biographies. But, who knew he had a soft spot for fictional memoirs, too? During a late December edition of CTV British Columbia’s “The Last Word with Mike McCardell and Dave Gerry,” just before presenting the host of famous biographies that Dave has consumed over the years, he holds up […]
“Ken Budd has done it again. The seasonal adventures continue for Buddy, the protagonist, in a series of novels set on the Prairies during the early 1950. The recent release of “WinterFree” follows the first and second novels in the series, “SummerWild” and “FallGently” having appeared on bookshelves over the past two years. The series’ […]
“1950s North Battleford kids might spend entire days outdoors, even in winter. Not everybody had, or wanted, a car. School principals could still administer the strap. In the third of a four-book series, former North Battleford resident Kenneth William Budd sets the story of an 11-year-old boy in a fictional community only thinly disguised as […]
“Author Ken Budd is on a roll by publishing his third book in two years, titled WinterFree, in his Adventures of Buddy Williams series. Avid readers of the series — and I am one of them — will recall that though these books are intended for a teen audience, they offer huge nostalgic interest to […]
