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The
Grasshopper and the Ant
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The
Grasshopper and the Ant
by
Deb
Loughead
illustrations
by Joanne Stanbridge
(The Literacy Place
for the Early Years)
Scholastic
Canada Education Ltd.,
2005
ISBN
0-7791-5510-6
This
book comes in a set for
teachers and librarians. The set includes a "big book", six
regular-sized books, an audio-CD and a teacher guide.
Learn more
on the Scholastic
Canada website.
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My Four
Lions
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My Four Lions
by
Bernice Gold
illustrations
by Joanne
Stanbridge
Annick
Press, 1999
ISBN
1-55037-6020 pbk $7.95
ISBN
1-55037-6039 hc $17.95
A young boy
comes home
from school to an empty apartment, where his paper lions transform
themselves
into strong and loving companions.
Chosen a Best
Bet for 1999 (Ontario
Library Association).
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“Stanbridge’s
gorgeous watercolours show reality on the left page and an irresistible
dreamworld on the right.” –Macleans,
Nov 22, 1999.
“Stanbridge’s
wonderful pictures make this book successful…The illustrator’s use of
contrast—cold
versus warm colours, empty versus filled spaces—effectively lets the
viewer
enter the world of the solitary child hero.” –St. Catharine’s
Standard, Oct
26, 1999.
“Stanbridge
makes a promising artistic debut…The contrast between the still, gray
apartment
and the animated lions crowding around a campfire plays up the boy’s
transformative
imagination.”—Publisher’s Weekly, Nov 15, 1999.
"Illustrator
Joanne Stanbridge does a fantastic job of showing both sides of the
story,
devoting one page to the reality the boy faces--small paper lions and
pencils
used as pretend firewood--and the next to his imaginative dreams of
four
gigantic smiling lions gobbling pizza next to a roaring campfire." --Halifax
Daily News, Dec. 5, 1999, p. 42.
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About
the
Author
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Bernice Gold
grew up
in
Montreal. Her father was one of the first psychiatrists in that
city,
and she spent a happy childhood at home on Bishop Street, near the
Museum
of Fine Art. She has a degree in Sociology and another in
Music.
She spent several years as a freelance broadcaster for the CBC.
She
has narrated a book for the Katavik (Inuit) school board, and she
enjoys
reading in schools and libraries, and at the McGill-Montreal Children's
Hospital Learning Centre.
She and her
husband raised five
children.
It wasn't until this busy family grew up that she had time to devote to
her writing. Some of her children now have children of their own,
but the inspiration for her writing still comes from within herself and
from memories of her childhood. Click
here to visit her website.
Bernice's
novel for middle-grade
readers
is about a girl with a secret wish, who lives on a school train in
northern
Ontario. The book is called Strange
School, Secret Wish (Beach
Holme, 1999.)
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Behind
the Scenes
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Joanne
Stanbridge
says,
"As soon as I heard Bernice Gold read aloud the text of My Four
Lions,
I wanted to do the pictures for it. When I was a child I lived in
my imagination. Even though I was never a latchkey child I just knew
how
that boy felt, and I wanted to paint that feeling. I did a set of
pictures to go with the story, made myself be brave, and showed them to
Bernice. That's how the book got started."
When the original
publishing
company went out of business, the author and illustrator scrambled to
find
a home for the finished project. It was published by Annick Press
in 1999.
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