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Wild Girl and Gran
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Wild Girl and Gran Hardcover - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Nan Gregory; Ron Lightburn (Illustrator)

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I am a princess in the castle keep. I am a pirate on the high seas. I am a cowboy on the lone prairie. I am a wild girl, alone in my stouthearted tree.

So begins the story of Wild Girl and Gran - a young girl and her grandmother who become companions in imagination, schemers in adventure and free-spirited in friendship. Together they create a whimsical world that is beautifully charmed and safe.

But a shadow falls over this special place when Gran falls ill and leaves the world. Wild Girl does not feel safe or adventurous anymore. One spring day, Wild Girl's mother begins to tell stories about Gran. Wild Girl sees how, together, their love for Gran, and each other, will survive.

Wild Girl and Gran is the hauntingly beautiful tale of how imagination renews the human spirit and how love passes across generations, from mother to daughter, to calm a wild girl's heart and make her adventurous again.

Awards and Nominations:

Winner of the 2001 UNESCO International Youth Library -- White Raven Award

Shortlisted for the 2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year -- Children's Picturebook

Resource Links Best in Canadian Resources 2001

IBBY Canada Outstanding Canadian Picture Book 2000 -- 2003

Canadian Library Association Book of the Year

Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Citation, Starred selection

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for Illustration Nomination

Alberta Children's Book of the Year nomination

Alberta Book Illustration of the Year nomination

Details

  • Title Wild Girl and Gran
  • Author Nan Gregory; Ron Lightburn (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Red Deer Press, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Date September 10, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780889952218 / 0889952213
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.38 x 8.81 x 0.41 in (28.91 x 22.38 x 1.04 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

Citations

  • Quill & Quire, 12/01/2000, Page 29
  • School Library Journal, 08/01/2001, Page 147

About the author

Nan Gregory's previous children's picture books include the international best-seller How Smudge Came and the critically acclaimed Wild Girl and Gran. Nan Gregory is a professional storyteller and has performed in schools, libraries, hospitals, parks and theatres, at conferences and festivals, and from the back of a horse-drawn sleigh. Her career has taken her across Canada and to the United States, Japan and New Zealand.

Ron Lightburn is an internationally renowned illustrator of books for children. He has currently completed a picture book, Wild Girl and Gran by Nan Gregory. He has collaborated with Nan Gregory once before, on the award-winning How Smudge Came. His illustrations in the picture book Waiting for the Whales earned him the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for Illustration and the Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award.

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