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SUSAN VANDE GRIEK is the author of several highly acclaimed children’s books. Her picture book Loon, illustrated by Karen Reczuch, was named a USBBY Outstanding International Book and won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award and the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, among others. She has also written Go Home Bay, illustrated by Pascal Milelli, about the artist Tom Thomson, and An Owl at Sea, illustrated by Ian Wallace. Susan lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. KAREN RECZUCH has illustrated many award-winning children’s books. Loon by Susan Vande Griek won the TD Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-fiction, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Picture Book Award and the Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada’s Information Book Award. Karen’s other books include West Coast Wild, also the winner of the Information Book Award, and three more titles in the West Coast Wild series, all by Deborah Hodge. Karen lives in Lake Country, BC.
A lyrical text and lush, full-color illustrations . . . A warm and nurturing story of parent/chick bonding, this title will be great for storytimes as well as one-on-one sharing. * School Library Journal * Powerful . . . A bird book and an art book . . . It presents the mysterious, wild, natural world as a place to observe and wonder. * Toronto Star * Poetic prose . . . [and] stunning double-page paintings. * Globe and Mail *
