Dan Bar-El

Dan Bar-el (BC, Canada) is a children’s author of both chapter and picture books, as well as an educator and storyteller. With nearly twenty years’ experience of working with children, the author has had many opportunities to attune himself to their sense of humour, although he writes for his own amusement just as much as his audiences’. Before becoming an author, Bar-el trained and worked as a stage actor and later wrote and performed comedy. At Wordfest, he presents A Fish Named Glub, about a small fish, friendship and the power of dreams, and Nine Words Max. Bar-el currently resides in Vancouver.