MY BOOKS
New Book coming out in Spring 2018 - Piper a story set on the Hector - the ship that brought the first Scottish Immigrants to Nova Scotia. Published by Nimbus.
Explosion Newsie
http://www.formac.ca/Book/2868/Explosion-Newsie.html
(Formac Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9781459504011 p-32)
A school-age picture book, illustrated by Loretta Migani
CCBC Best Books for Children and Teens List 2016
According to Macky's brother, nine-year-old Macky is the worst newsboy ever,
The papers he delivers are often dirty or ripped and usually late. But none of
this matters when Macky continues to deliver the newspapers in the terrible
aftermath of the Halifax Explosion. By helping Miss Tufts, his fussiest customer,
locate her niece, Macky finds his brother Rob, who has been missing since the
day of the explosion. The book ends with an enormous hug and a sense of hope,
as the people of Halifax and Dartmouth rebuild their lives and their homes.
Loretta’s beautiful illustrations are full of emotion. This story is a simple
way of showing younger children what happened to their city 100 years ago.
"Jumping over fallen telegraph wires and uprooted trees, Macky ran downhill
after his friend. Half the city was gone, the rest flattened or on fire."
Bluenose Adventure
http://www.formac.ca/Book/2868/Explosion-Newsie.html
(Formac Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4595-0280-2. p-32)
A school-age picture book, Illustrated by Eric Orchard.
Nominated for the 2013 APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book award.
Set on the famous schooner Bluenose, this is the story of ten year old Arty Brown and his friends who gut the cod aboard the fishing schooners out in the north Atlantic in the 1920s.
“Arty looked in dismay at the slimy mess of fish guts dripping off the splitting table. He hauled up bucket of seawater and scrubbed the splitting are clean. Then, still wearing his boots, he collapsed on a bunk and was asleep before he’d even laid down.”
The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate
(Nimbus Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1551096552 p-32)
Co-authored with Carrie Muller, and illustrated by Eric Orchard.
Nominated for the Lillian Shepherd Award CA (2009)
Winner of the Mayor’s award for illustration CA (2009).
The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate is a fun pre-school picture book that topped
local best seller lists for many weeks.
“Pirate’s don’t take bubble baths,” spluttered the terrible, horrible, smelly pirate.
“But supposing there be treasure hidden under them bubbles,” squawked Parrot Polly.
“Arrrrgh. That be different.”
(Nimbus Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1551096552 p-32)
Co-authored with Carrie Muller, and illustrated by Eric Orchard.
Nominated for the Lillian Shepherd Award CA (2009)
Winner of the Mayor’s award for illustration CA (2009).
The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate is a fun pre-school picture book that topped
local best seller lists for many weeks.
“Pirate’s don’t take bubble baths,” spluttered the terrible, horrible, smelly pirate.
“But supposing there be treasure hidden under them bubbles,” squawked Parrot Polly.
“Arrrrgh. That be different.”
Peggy’s Letters
(Orca Books, 2005. ISBN 1-55143-363-X. p-132)
A Canadian Children's Book Center 2006 ‘Our Choice’ starred selection.
Nominated for the 2007 Hackmatack Children's Choice Award and
the 2007 Rocky Mountain Children's Book Award.
Voted an Honour Book in the 2007 Silver Birch Express Award.
Peggy's Letters is now an e-book.
This story is based on a compilation of my mother’s anecdotes about living in
London during the Second World War. Through the eyes of eleven-year-old
Peggy, the reader sees and feels what it was like to experience air raids,
rationing, loss and unlikely friendships in a war-torn city.
"Through a teary blur, I look at the black soggy wreck. Our home is just another bomb site.”
(Orca Books, 2005. ISBN 1-55143-363-X. p-132)
A Canadian Children's Book Center 2006 ‘Our Choice’ starred selection.
Nominated for the 2007 Hackmatack Children's Choice Award and
the 2007 Rocky Mountain Children's Book Award.
Voted an Honour Book in the 2007 Silver Birch Express Award.
Peggy's Letters is now an e-book.
This story is based on a compilation of my mother’s anecdotes about living in
London during the Second World War. Through the eyes of eleven-year-old
Peggy, the reader sees and feels what it was like to experience air raids,
rationing, loss and unlikely friendships in a war-torn city.
"Through a teary blur, I look at the black soggy wreck. Our home is just another bomb site.”
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The Gran Plan
(Scholastic, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7791-6648-0 p-48) Placed third in the 2003 Atlantic Writing Competition - Joyce Barkhouse award for Children's Literature. Subsequently, published by Scholastic Education in their “Literacy Place for the Early Years” series. Josh and his siblings, in an attempt to cheer up their Gran, take Dad’s idea of yard work a step further by creating a water garden in Gran’s back yard. Of course everybody, including Dad, gets covered in mud, which cheers Gran up no end. “ Pots, petals, and compost rained down on him as he slid slowly, on his belly, down the short, gentle slope into the mud pond.” |
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