The Last Straw

Fredrick Thury has served as Artistic Director of York University's Vanier College Productions for over twenty-five years. He was originally commissioned to write the story for The Last Straw by the Toronto Children's Chorus, which performed the piece with musical accompaniment and subsequently recorded it for the CBC. Mr. Thury's works for children's theater include One Potato Too, The Technicolour Wizard, and Behind the Wrinkles. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.

Illustrator:

Vlasta van Kampen began her career as an illustrator with McClelland & Steward. Her first book, ABC/123: The Canadian Alphabet and Counting Book (Hurtig, 1982), won the 1982 Governor General's Award for Illustration. She is also the illustrator of the phenomenally popular Dinosaur Days (Stoddart Publishing, 1993) and Orchestranimals (Scholastic Canada, 1989). Vlasta van Kampen now works as a freelance designer and illustrator. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their two children.