Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
The Word On The Street’s December Book Talk features Kai Cheng Thom on her new book for young readers For Laika: The Dog Who Learned The Name of the Stars. In the guest interviewer seat, we have Kai Yun Ching, illustrator of the book and Kai Cheng’s previous illustrator collaborator on From The Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea.
Pick up For Laika: The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars at your favourite local bookseller!
Another Story Bookshop: anotherstory.ca/item/6nvBPLOyqFhRIrukadT4Hw
Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is an author whose oeuvre includes a novel, a collection of poetry, a memoir, and collected essays. Kai Cheng won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.
Kai Yun Ching is a community-based consultant, educator, and illustrator. They edited and published Children's Stories, a collection of tales written by children, with the publishing collective Quilted Creatures in 2016.
For Laika: The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars was released in November 2021 with Arsenal Pulp Press.
To support The Word On The Street Toronto, please consider making a donation at toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/support-us
The Word On The Street’s December Book Talk features Kai Cheng Thom on her new book for young readers For Laika: The Dog Who Learned The Name of the Stars. In the guest interviewer seat, we have Kai Yun Ching, illustrator of the book and Kai Cheng’s previous illustrator collaborator on From The Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea.
Pick up For Laika: The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars at your favourite local bookseller!
Another Story Bookshop: anotherstory.ca/item/6nvBPLOyqFhRIrukadT4Hw
Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is an author whose oeuvre includes a novel, a collection of poetry, a memoir, and collected essays. Kai Cheng won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.
Kai Yun Ching is a community-based consultant, educator, and illustrator. They edited and published Children's Stories, a collection of tales written by children, with the publishing collective Quilted Creatures in 2016.
For Laika: The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars was released in November 2021 with Arsenal Pulp Press.
To support The Word On The Street Toronto, please consider making a donation at toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/support-us
