How Smudge Came (Northern Lights Books for Children) - Hardcover

Gregory, Nan; Lightburn, Ron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0889951438 ISBN 13: 9780889951433

Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1995

Synopsis

In the home where Cindy lives, no dogs are allowed, so she must bundle puppy up when she goes to work as a cleaning woman in the Hospice. One patient is so blind with illness that he can barely see the dog; it looks like a smudge. But, oh, how nice to hold the puppy. What is Cindy to do? How will she care for Smudge?

Reviews
"A moving story with a happy ending."
_ Quill & Quire

"A beautiful story, lovingly told and illustrated."
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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. 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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Awards and Nominations

• Winner of the 1996 Mr. Christie Book Award
• Winner of the 1996 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
• Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Citation

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0889951438
• ISBN 13: 9780889951433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32