Nan Gregory's previous children's picture books include the international best-seller How Smudge Came and the critically acclaimed Wild Girl and Gran. Nan Gregory is a professional storyteller and has performed in schools, libraries, hospitals, parks and theatres, at conferences and festivals, and from the back of a horse-drawn sleigh. Her career has taken her across Canada and to the United States, Japan and New Zealand.
Ron Lightburn is an internationally renowned illustrator of books for children. He has currently completed a picture book, Wild Girl and Gran by Nan Gregory. He has collaborated with Nan Gregory once before, on the award-winning How Smudge Came. His illustrations in the picture book Waiting for the Whales earned him the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for Illustration and the Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award.
"Outstanding . . . distinguished by Gregory's nuanced, resonant
storytelling and depth of feeling. Ron Lightburn's mise en scene
paintings richly illuminate the text."
-- Quill & Quire, Starred Review "From the duo responsible for the
picture book How Smudge Came and Wild Girl & Gran offers the same
sensitivity, high-level text and illustrations, and relevant,
important subject matter."
-- Globe & Mail
"Outstanding . . . distinguished by Gregory's nuanced, resonant
storytelling and depth of feeling. Ron Lightburn's mise en scene
paintings richly illuminate the text."
-- Quill & Quire, Starred Review
"From the duo responsible for the picture book How Smudge Came and
Wild Girl & Gran offers the same sensitivity, high-level text and
illustrations, and relevant, important subject matter."
-- Globe & Mail
"
"Outstanding . . . distinguished by Gregory's nuanced, resonant
storytelling and depth of feeling. Ron Lightburn's mise en scene
paintings richly illuminate the text."
-- Quill & Quire, Starred Review "From the duo responsible for the
picture book How Smudge Came and Wild Girl & Gran offers the same
sensitivity, high-level text and illustrations, and relevant,
important subject matter."
-- Globe & Mail
"Outstanding . . . distinguished by Gregory's nuanced, resonant
storytelling and depth of feeling. Ron Lightburn's mise en scene
paintings richly illuminate the text."
-- Quill & Quire, Starred Review
"From the duo responsible for the picture book How Smudge Came and
Wild Girl & Gran offers the same sensitivity, high-level text and
illustrations, and relevant, important subject matter."
-- Globe & Mail
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