Norma West Linder

The Pastel Planet: A Manitoulin Island Adventure

Illustrator: Abbasnezhad, Afsheadeh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This wonderfully imaginative story, so delightfully illustrated in pastels, incorporates many beautiful details and memories, both fact and fiction, to take the young reader on a trip of a lifetime. The author cleverly weaves her own lifelong memories, of a childhood spent on Manitoulin, with this freshwater island's colourful scenery, geography and First Nations language. Overcoming the blending of their two families, peer pressure, and bullying, Katie and Caleb finally enjoy an adventure full of holiday magic that is beyond their wildest dreams. Margaret Bird Author, Publisher, Photographer & Musician Manitoulin, a triangular-shaped island in the Great Lakes, is a place where magic can happen. Two children from different families, Caleb Larkin and Katie Lambert, are forced to live together when their parents marry. They do not like each other, but the outer space adventure they share on a holiday on the Island changes that. A flying saucer lands on the shores of Lake Mindemoya, and they are invited aboard. They can't wait to return to school in the Fall to tell their classmates the tale of Terra Turquoise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hidden Brook Press
• First Editioin
• Seitenzahl: 90
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 188g
• ISBN-13: 9781927725245
• ISBN-10: 1927725240
• Artikelnr.: 44073599

Autorenporträt

Norma West Linder was born in Toronto, spent her childhood on Manitoulin Island, and teenage years in Muskoka. She is a member of, The Writers' Union of Canada, The Ontario Poetry Society, WITS (Writers International Through Sarnia) and Past President of the Sarnia Branch of the Canadian Authors Assoc. Linder is the author of 5 novels, 14 collections of poetry, a memoir of Manitoulin Island, two children's books, and a biography of Pauline McGibbon. For 24 years she was on the faculty of Lambton College in Sarnia, teaching English and Creative Writing, retiring in 1992. For 7 years she wrote a monthly column for the Sarnia Observer. Her short stories have been published internationally and broadcast on the CBC. Her poetry has been published in, Fiddlehead, White Wall Review, Room of One's Own, Quills, Prairie Journal, FreeFall Magazine, Mobius, and other periodicals. In 2006 she compiled and edited Enchanted Crossroads for The Ontario Poetry Society. Her latest publications are collections of poems entitled, When Angels Weep, Lovely as a Tree, and Adder's Tongues. A collection of her short stories was released in August of 2013, entitled No Common Thread, published by Hidden Brook Press. In 2014, Two Paths Through the Seasons, a poetry book featuring Linder and James Deahl was published in Israel. In 2016, Hidden Brook Press published, The Pastel Planet, a children's book. Her poem "Valediction" was set to music by composer Jeffrey Ryan, performed in Toronto by the Tefelmusik Baroque Orchestra. She lives in Sarnia, Ontario with poet James Deahl. When not writing, Linder enjoys reading, swimming, and photography. She has two daughters and a son.