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Synopsis
An Ontario Library Association Best Bets Selection for 2005
Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007
There is so much to see and do on Uncle John's Farm.
Author Sally Fitz-Gibbon's beautifully written free verse is a dreamy, evocative ode to life on a farm.
Artist Brian Deines fills each page with warm, impressionistic images, which practically glow with their own source of light.
An inspired collaboration by two great talents who wrap words and images around like a comforting blanket. An absolute must-have for parents and grandparents of young ones who love to cuddle up for a bedtime read.
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About the Author
Sally Fitz-Gibbon is a former special education teacher and the author of On Uncle John's Farm, Pig in the Middle, The Patchwork House and Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes. She lives with her husband on Bowen Island, British Columbia.
Brian Deines is the critically acclaimed illustrator of Prairie Summer, Camping, and Number 21. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
From School Library Journal
Grade 1-3–Written in a rhythmic free verse, this whimsical tale of a little girl's busy day is lovely on every level. Sensory details seem to drift out of the pages: readers breathe in the "warm smells of bacon and syrup and coffee," they watch as a rooster "walks stiffly on stilt-legs with ruffles," hear the "clinking of soup spoons on thick china dishes," and feel the "thick, puffy towels that smell fresh from the line" against their skin. Capturing the joy this child experiences in the simple "dailies" of farm life, the illustrations are perfectly suited to the text. Deines uses what appears to be oil on large-grained paper to portray country landscapes and interiors. He captures the gentle innocence of children's faces and the comfortable, weathered visages of Uncle John. Readers see farm life from many unique angles: the aerial view of a cornfield from an airborne swallow's perspective, and the way a cousin's shoe might look as he is stomping around the hayloft while the narrator hides in the hay below. On Uncle John's Farm is truly a wonderful partnership of artist and writer.–Corrina Austin, Locke's Public School, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
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- PublisherFitzhenry and Whiteside
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1550418866
- ISBN 13 9781550418866
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorDeines Brian
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