An Owlat Sea

About the author

SUSAN VANDE GRIEK is the author of several highly acclaimed children’s books. Her picture book Loon, illustrated by Karen Reczuch, was named a USBBY Outstanding International Book and won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award and the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, among others. She has also written Go Home Bay, illustrated by Pascal Milelli, about the artist Tom Thomson, and An Owl at Sea, illustrated by Ian Wallace. Susan lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
IAN WALLACE is one of Canada’s best-known children’s book creators. He has published many classics, including Boy of the Deeps and Chin Chiang and the Dragon’s Dance. His illustrations for Canadian Railroad Trilogy and Just So Stories have each received three starred reviews. His most recent book is The Curiosity Cabinet.

Ian has won the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award, among others. He has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Governor General’s Award and the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

Ian lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife, Deb.

Summary

The extraordinary, true story of an owl stranded on the deck of an oil rig one hundred miles from shore, and the Good Samaritans who shepherded it home.

Product details

• Authors: SUSAN VANDE GRIEK, Susan Vande Griek
• Assisted by: Ian Wallace (Illustration)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 6
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781773061115
• ISBN: 978-1-77306-111-5
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 279 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Illustrations: Color illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Animals, plants, nature, the environment; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Zoology, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / Birds, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Recycling & Green Living, sources, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / General, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Birds