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October
Picture Book
The author as a child.
ELEANOR KOLDOFSKY pioneered the classical and jazz recording
industry in Canada. Her efforts have won her several Grand Prix du
Disques and Juno Awards for recording excellence, a Gemini, and
several other film industry awards for documentary filmmaking.
Examples of her work reside in almost every school board and university
in Canada. As a philanthropist and patron of the arts, Eleanor has
helped fund and support Canadians in music, fine arts, and theater.
Entering her eightieth year, she continues to write, co-sponsor Ontario
theater, and guide local artists onto the world stage.
DAVID PARKINS is the award-winning illustrator of over fifty children’s
books. He began his career at Dyfed College of Art in Wales, studying
wildlife illustration. He then went to Lincoln College of Art for three
years, and has been a freelance illustrator since his graduation in 1979.
He spent several years at the beginning of his career producing
illustrations for educational publishers, and has earned most of his keep
drawing for the British cartoon, The Beano. David Parkins lives in
England with his wife and nine-year-old daughter.
PRAISE FOR DAVID PARKINS:
“David Parkins’ illustrations are in the British tradition of Cruikshank
and Searle: ink lines that create the most complex of machines,
not to mention the wonderful animals bursting with personality.”
–Library Talk
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