A Very Small Something (eBook)

David Hickey (Autor)

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2012
32 Seiten
Biblioasis (Verlag)
978-1-926845-63-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A poetic adventure story, fabulously illustrated, that teaches the true meaning of love and belonging.

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From A Very Small Something:Somewhere past the wrinkled maps, and underanother sun, where favourite earrings find new earsand missing marbles run, the hillsides madetheir marvelous shapes for a town called CovingtonAnd a great pink factory as long as the breezeweighed truckfuls and truckfuls of bubblegum.Olivia Bezzlebee lives by the sea in a fantastic town with the world's biggest bubblegum factory, where its citizens blow bubbles all day. But Olivia can't blow a single one and feels as if everyone looks down on her. Leaving Covington to find a place where she might belong, she learns the true meanings of family and home.A Very Small Something, beautifully illustrated by Alexander Griggs-Burr, is a story to which all childrenand any tuned-in parentwill be able to relate. Blowing bubbles may indeed be a very small something . . . but when you are a small child and it's the thing you most want to do, a bubble can mean the whole world.David Hickey is one of the leading young poets in Canada, and the author of two collections, including Open Air Bindery . He has tested his children's poems in schools across the country for the last seven years. He is finishing a PhD at the University of Western in London, Ontario.Alexander Griggs-Burr illustrated the Ontario Library Association Red Maplenominated Nieve in 2010. He lives and works in Stratford, Ontario.

Autor

David Hickey grew up on Prince Edward Island, in western Labrador, and along the north shore of Quebec. A past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize, his work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada an the United States. David is an avid runner and back yard astronomer, and he lives in London, ON.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2012
• Illustrationen: Alexander Griggs-Burr
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Gedichte / Lieder
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• ISBN-10: 1-926845-63-3 / 1926845633
• ISBN-13: 978-1-926845-63-0 / 9781926845630