Maggie de Vries
launches
her newest picture book
Swimming with Seals
Written by Maggie de Vries
Illustrated by Janice Kun
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers
9781459813212
32 pp.
Ages 4-8
April 2018
on
Thursday, May 8, 2018
7:00-8:30 p.m.
at
Salamander Books
535 First Avenue
Ladysmith, BC
Ally
isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on
the other side of the country, with her gram and great-aunt. But one
summer Ally goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in the "big city by the
ocean" and gets to spend time with her mom. While exploring the shore,
watching whales from the boat dipping into the salty water, Ally finds
out something important: her mother loves to swim as much as she does.
This is a very personal story. Ally is based on the author’s niece, Jeanie, and Ally's mother is based on the author's sister, Sarah, who went missing from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver in 1998. Jeanie is like a seal in the water, and Sarah was just the same, but they never got to swim together. In this story, they do. Swimming with Seals is a story that was written for the thousands of children who long to live with their birth parents and will never fully understand why they can't.
This is a very personal story. Ally is based on the author’s niece, Jeanie, and Ally's mother is based on the author's sister, Sarah, who went missing from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver in 1998. Jeanie is like a seal in the water, and Sarah was just the same, but they never got to swim together. In this story, they do. Swimming with Seals is a story that was written for the thousands of children who long to live with their birth parents and will never fully understand why they can't.
Retrieved from Orca Book Publishers' website at
https://www.orcabook.com/Swimming-With-Seals-P1418.aspx
on April 3, 2018.
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