Children's author Alison Lohans will read from her books at the Weyburn Public Library on Thursday, Feb. 27. The reading will be held from 2-3 p.m. Admission is free.

Lohans immigrated to Canada in 1971, after being born and raised in California. She has lived in Regina since 1976. She has published 13 books for children and young adults, and numerous short pieces for adults and children, including short fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry, book reviews and academic works.

On the website for CANSCAIP, the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers, Lohans said she's been writing all her life. "At the age of nine, I decided I was going to be a writer, began submitting stories (and learning all about rejection slips) at 10, and was first published at 12."

Lohans' books include Waiting for the Sun, published by Red Deer Press, Skateboard Kids, Roussan Publishers, and Sundog Rescue, published by Annick Press and illustrated by Vladyana Langer Krykorka.

In 1996, she wrote a musical score for young string players to accompany her first picture book, Nathaniel's Violin, which has seen at least 20 performances by her son's string group, the Earlybird Ensembles. She and her son, Chris, are members of the University of Regina's Chamber Orchestra.