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2) Once, a bird
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Once, as the winter ended, a little bird emerged to find the world had gone quiet. The streets were empty and the playgrounds still. Puzzled but determined, the bird explores the town in search of a suitable place to nest. The residents of an apartment building notice her resting in a tree outside and take comfort in her song. Watching through their windows, they look beyond their lives and pause to appreciate the wonders of nature. The bird chooses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
As the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, shakes off a long hard winter, famous photographer Rudolph Steiner arrives to do a feature on mountain tourism. Steiner is accompanied by his assistant and sexy young wife, but he has another reason for the visit: to reconnect with the woman who left him twenty-five years ago to marry another man. Twenty-five years ago she was young, beautiful, näive, and an internationally known supermodel....
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Vibrant language and rhythm celebrate the start of a new day in this uplifting poem about a city waking up. On a beautiful, sunny morning, a family runs errands along a city street. They visit a bakery, flower shop and fruit market. Exuberant in sounds and sights―a baker sugaring tarts, flowers greeting passers-by and pigeons cooing―the story ends as a new day of sparkling possibility begins. Written in pantoum form and illustrated...
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