Is Reine Still Sleeping? - Nash, Peta-Gaye
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'Is Reine Still Sleeping?' tells the story of two siblings, ten years apart. Big sister Reine used to play with her little brother Liam all the time, until she became a teenager. Now she has homework, friends and other interests. Plus she sure sleeps a lot. Liam always asks if Reine is still sleeping. He tries to wake her up by playing the drums outside her door and does everything to get her attention, including dancing naked in front of her friends. Reine finds Liam embarrassing. Liam is sad and feels Reine doesn't love him anymore. When realizes her little brother misses her, she puts away…mehr

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'Is Reine Still Sleeping?' tells the story of two siblings, ten years apart. Big sister Reine used to play with her little brother Liam all the time, until she became a teenager. Now she has homework, friends and other interests. Plus she sure sleeps a lot. Liam always asks if Reine is still sleeping. He tries to wake her up by playing the drums outside her door and does everything to get her attention, including dancing naked in front of her friends. Reine finds Liam embarrassing. Liam is sad and feels Reine doesn't love him anymore. When realizes her little brother misses her, she puts away her cell phone and plays with him. She realizes she misses him too and she keeps an important promise that brings them even closer together. The story is based on the author's family.
Autorenporträt
Peta-Gaye Nash is an adult and children's author. She was born in 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica and has also lived in the United States, Norway and Canada. She studied Labour Relations at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and has made Canada home for the past twenty years. Peta-Gaye wrote her first children's book in 2003 but she put it at the back of her closet because the story didn't have a happy ending. Six years later, Peta-Gaye's story got its happy ending and her first children's book was published. She has seven children's books published and in 2015, she won the Marty Awards for Emerging Literary Art. In 2013, she got an honourable mention for the same award. Peta-Gaye teaches English as a Second Language during the day and writes at night. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario with her husband and four children.