Lori Doody (CA)
Island, The
Island, The
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An island off the coast of another island is home to a small community; life is rich with joy and challenges, and the people who live there love their island home. One day they learn that the government will move them off the island, to new homes with modern conveniences like electricity. Life will be simpler, but will it be better?
In gentle and spare prose, and with her unique folk-art illustrations, Lori Doody tells the story of resettlement in Newfoundland—it is a deeply personal tale, but it is also the story of anyone who must leave a loved home to start anew and who carries their old home still in their heart."
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ISBN
9781927917961
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Publisher
Running the Goat
Bio
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A printmaker by training, Lori Doody is the author/illustrator of several widely praised picture books that combine bright, simple illustrations with witty, spare stories, including Capelin Weather; The Puffin Problem; Mallard, Mallard, Moose; Paint the Town Pink; Catalina; and the Mr. Beagle series. Two have been included in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids & Teens; one, named an Ontario Library Association “Top Ten Best Bet”; and two, short-listed for the NL Book Award for Children’s/Young Adult Literature.
