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musician, actress, professional storyteller, and writer
for radio and television. Brandywine, her folk duo, has
produced two records - "Breakfast with Brandywine"
and "The Most Beautiful Kite in the World" – and
she co-wrote a TV series on Alberta ethnic groups, "Through
Western Eyes." Her book Finders Keepers was
nominated for BC Book Prize's Sheila A. Egoff Award and
the Silver Birch Award. She has also been nominated for
the Manitoba Young Readers Choice, and the Tiny TORGI. Her
latest titles are The Disappearing Dinosaur (part
of the unique Internet-integrated Adventure Net
series of children’s books, co-produced with her husband
David) and Dance of the Stones. |
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 Willow
and Rick are on the bus headed for Dawson City to join
their parents — who are making a film about the gold rush
— and Robert Service, a famous poet from the time. On
the bus they meet Kate, who is on her way to work for
Parks Canada in Dawson City. Rick is immediately suspicious
of her, but Willow thinks she’s cool. In Dawson City,
they learn a lot about the gold rush and the history of
the town. They meet Casey Erikson, whose great grand dad
was a friend of Robert Service. Casey takes the two panning
for gold in the river and surprisingly, Willow finds a
ring with a gold nugget set in it. Willow puts up a lost
and found notice about the ring, but secretly hopes she
can keep it. Meanwhile, Kate starts arranging a community
concert and asks the kids to participate. She requests
Rick to do a recitation of a Robert Service poem. A little
while later, Rick has an adventure with a bear near a
cabin. When he enters the cabin, he discovers a poem stuffed
in a hole in the wall. The poem sounds remarkably like
something Mr. Service would have written, and Rick decides
to surprise everyone and recite it at the concert. Kate,
oddly enough, answers the notice about the lost ring.
Willow’s instincts tell her it’s not Kate’s so she starts
investigating. The concert is a big hit with Rick’s recitation
of the new poem the highlight. Everyone is interested
to find out where he got it. Kate listens to all the details
of the discovery and Rick, not trusting her intentions,
finds her at the cabin confiscating the poem into a plastic
tube. All three kids end up on a raft they built, and
inadvertently win a big raft race in their effort to get
the poems to Park officials. When it’s discovered that
Kate has disappeared, the truth is revealed. In a visit
to Casey’s grandmother, the grandmother tells a story
about losing a gold nugget ring when she was a child;
a loss she’s always regretted. Willow is dumbfounded and
gives her the ring. Casey’s grandmother is very moved
and very grateful
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Whitecap Books, 2000 |
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Whitecap Books, 2000 |
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Orca Book Publishers, 1999 |
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Beach Holme Pub Ltd; 0 edition, 1998 |
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Pr Porcepic Ltd, 1997 |
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Orca Book Publishers, 1994 |
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Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, 1991 |
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 In
The White Horse Talisman, Chantel and Adam are visiting
their British cousins, Holly and Owen, for the summer.
When Chantel sees a shooting star streak through the sky
and awaken the ancient magical horse that is carved into
the downs, the four children are drawn into an adventure,
guided by four Wise Ones, Ava, Myrddin, Equus and the
Lady. The children set out to help the Great White Horse
Equus find his mate and regain his magical talisman. But
as the horse rises, so does the dragon. The age-old struggle
between good and evil threatens the bond between Chantel
and Adam and endangers the quest.
In Dance of the Stones, the four children are off on
their second quest, this time to recover Ava’s circlet,
buried eons ago in the Stone Circle of Avebury. In this
story, Owen is the character chosen to be witness to the
past with Ava’s guidance. The Dark Being has drawn closer
and an evil wraith who hides beneath the stones has awakened.
When Equus confronts the Dark Being and Ava is injured,
the four children are left on their own to discover the
ritual that will release the circlet. The future of their
world as they know it depends on their success. |
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 Little
Girl is bored and wants to play, but it’s raining. Her
mother recites the nursery rhyme "It’s raining, it’s
pouring, the old man is snoring. He went to bed with a
cold in his head and he didn’t get up in the morning."
Little Girl asks why he’s in bed with a cold and puts
on her boots and her rain gear to find out. She makes
her way to the basement to get the ladder, climbs through
the basement ceiling, through the kitchen ceiling, and
out through the roof of the house to the nearest thundercloud.
In the cloud she finds the old man, a moaning groaning
giant in bed with a cold. Finding he doesn’t have a mom
to give him hot lemon and honey, she climbs down the ladder
to get some. With a wheelbarrow full of hot drink, gingerbread
cookies and a hot water bottle, she climbs back up the
ladder. The giant immediately feels better after sipping
the drink. The sun comes out. She quickly returns to her
home, changes her clothes and runs out to play
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