What's better than a book launch?
A double book launch!
Author Deborah Kerbel
is launching two new books
Her first picture book
with amazing plasticine artist
Suzanne Del Rizzo
is
Sun Dog
Written by Deborah Kerbel
Illustrated by Suzanne Del Rizzo
Pajama Press
978-1-77278-038-3
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
May 2018
as well as
a new middle grade novel
My Deal with the Universe
Written by Deborah Kerbel
Scholastic Canada
978-1443157568
240 pp.
Ages 9-12
May 2018
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Join Deborah Kerbel and Suzanne Del Rizzo
on
Saturday, June 2, 2018
2 p.m.
at
Indigo Yorkdale
Yorkdale Shopping Centre
Toronto
There will:
• readings by author and illustrator
• prizes
• refreshments
• plasticine activities, and
• book signings.
A little bit about the books:
Sun Dog, from Pajama Press website at http://pajamapress.ca/book/sun_dog/
Juno and her boy live in a red house at the top of the world. One day Juno will be big and strong enough to help pull a sled across the tundra, but for now she is just a small puppy with a big-dog heart. Small puppies have to go to bed when their boys do, but Juno can’t sleep with the midnight sun shining out across the town. She slips outside to play. Returning to see a hungry polar bear sniffing around the open door, Juno has no time to be afraid. It’s time to find her voice, summon the big dog inside her, and save her beloved boy.
My Deal with the Universe, from Scholastic Canada's website at http://www.scholastic.ca/rights/titles/special/my-deal-with-the-universe/
Maybe "normal" isn't all it's cracked up to be.... All twelve year-old Daisy Fisher wants is to be normal — or at least to not stick out like a sore thumb. But growing up in the house disparagingly referred to as the “Jungle” makes that pretty much impossible. When your parents’ activism brands them as a nuisance and your house is overrun with vines and critters, it’s not so easy to fit in. And it definitely doesn’t help when the neighbours declare your family public enemy number one. Or when your best (and possibly only) friend leaves for summer camp and forgets you exist. Or when your twin brother’s cancer might be growing back.
Will this be the summer Daisy changes things for the better? She can’t help where she lives, but if she could find a new friend, cultivate some courage, and figure out a way to keep her brother healthy, maybe life will finally be normal. Or will it? When her anxiety about her brother getting sick again threatens to boil over just as the Jungle comes under investigation, Daisy has to face down her greatest fears, not to mention the neighbours who are threatening her home. In the process, she learns some surprising truths about herself, and that maybe “normal” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. My Deal with the Universe is a contemporary middle-grade novel by Deborah Kerbel about tolerance, diversity, individuality, friendship and the strength of family.
