thestar.com: Paige Pedlar autographed Bono's book and he autographed hers.
It was that kind of day.
The day before, the 7-year-old Grade 1 student was sitting in F.M. Heard School in Whitby. At about 2 o'clock, her mother, Anna, got a phone call. It was the Prime Minister's Office, saying the man himself would like to see the book Paige wrote and illustrated about AIDS orphans, Who Will Cuddle Them When They Sleep?
The next day, dressed in a black skirt, sweater and tights, Paige went to Parliament Hill, where she got to meet with Paul Martin and Bono, the lead singer of U2, who was in town to applaud Martin's announcements about new spending for HIV/AIDS.
Paige sat on the rock star's lap and her 2-year-old sister Erin in Paul Martin's, while people took photos. "You're an amazing little girl," Bono told Paige. She gave him her book and he said, "I have a little book to give you too."
He then gave her a book and CD of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which he illustrated with help from his daughters Jordan and Eve.
"Love to the amazing Paige, from Bono, 2004," his autograph says, beside a drawing of himself. The night before the big day Paige told her friends she was going to meet "the singer guy." Then her family drove to Ottawa.
She got the idea for the book when she was watching television around the time of World Aids Day in December.
It was that kind of day.
The day before, the 7-year-old Grade 1 student was sitting in F.M. Heard School in Whitby. At about 2 o'clock, her mother, Anna, got a phone call. It was the Prime Minister's Office, saying the man himself would like to see the book Paige wrote and illustrated about AIDS orphans, Who Will Cuddle Them When They Sleep?
The next day, dressed in a black skirt, sweater and tights, Paige went to Parliament Hill, where she got to meet with Paul Martin and Bono, the lead singer of U2, who was in town to applaud Martin's announcements about new spending for HIV/AIDS.
Paige sat on the rock star's lap and her 2-year-old sister Erin in Paul Martin's, while people took photos. "You're an amazing little girl," Bono told Paige. She gave him her book and he said, "I have a little book to give you too."
He then gave her a book and CD of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which he illustrated with help from his daughters Jordan and Eve.
"Love to the amazing Paige, from Bono, 2004," his autograph says, beside a drawing of himself. The night before the big day Paige told her friends she was going to meet "the singer guy." Then her family drove to Ottawa.
She got the idea for the book when she was watching television around the time of World Aids Day in December.
