Author: Dianne Young
Illustrator: Brian Crane (creator of the Pickles comic strip)
Publisher: Baobab Press
When Nelson asks for a story, Grampa obliges. But it isn’t the story Nelson expects. Full of funny reversals and twists … who knows where this tale will lead?
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Congratulations to Dianne Young, whose book Dear Flyary has won the 2014 Saskatchewan Book Award in the SaskEnergy Children’s Literature Category.
See photos of the event.
Two picture books by Robins have been nominated for the 2014 Saskatchewan Book Awards in the SaskEnergy Children’s Book Category.
These are Dear Flyary, by Dianne Young, and Leaving Mr. Humphries, by Alison Lohans.
Winners will be announced on April 26, 2014.
Congratulations, Alison and Dianne!
Dianne Young’s awesome new picture book Dear Flyary is available in bookstores everywhere. But you can preview the story and the cute aliens that inhabit it at the Kids Can Press website.
After you go there, click on “Spread” on the left sidebar to see inside the cover. Or click on “Book Trailer” for an animated version.
Author: Dianne Young
Illustrator: John Martz
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A rhythmic romp through space! See a preview at the Kids Can Press Website.
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WINNER of the 2014 Saskatchewan Book Awards in the SaskEnergy Children’s Literature category.
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Author: Dianne Young
Illustrator: A. E. Matheson
Originally published by Roussan, 2001
New edition published by aemWORKS Publishing, 2009
$8.00 plus shipping
Can Josie remember what she needs to buy at the store? Join Josie and the friends she meets on trip to the corner store to get honey. Dianne Young uses humour and repetition to create this story for children ready to move beyond picture books and read for themselves.
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“This is a picture book par excellence. While the [rhyming] text introduces the seven members of the Abaleda Voluntary Firehouse Band, and their instruments, Hartmann’s fine watercolors not only portray these characters, but they also follow the adventures of a hapless little mouse, unmentioned in the text, returning home from the library to make a hot cup of tea. When the mouse’s house fills with smoke from the kettle gone dry, the firefighters are beckoned. The mouse’s picture story erupts into the firehouse crew’s word-and-picture world with the ringing of the telephone. The two stories are joined as the gallant band members come to the mouse’s rescue.”
Kathy Corrigan, Canadian Book Review Annual
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