About the Authors:
Ann Love
Ann Love graduated with her teaching degree and an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto.
A founder of Pollution Probe, Ann ran the education and information programs there in the early 1970’s. She and her husband then moved to Yukon where they were among the founding members of the Carcross Community Education Center, a co-educational high school open to students from across Canada as well as Yukon.
Ann eventually became a teacher librarian with the York Region District School Board in the Toronto area. She and her husband live on the edge of a hardwood forest. Besides her writing, Ann is a botanical water color artist, a besotted grandmother and an avid naturalist.
Jane Drake
Check out the Resources page for an interview.
When Jane was at university she worked as a research assistant for a history professor, honing her library skills while ferreting out obscure information and storing it on a database – great groundwork for a future non-fiction writer.
Jane gave up a promising career in theater to write full time. Among many roles, she has played Mary in Mary Poppins, a hula dancer, Janice Joplin, the Queen of Hearts and Lady Macbeth!
Jane’s outside interests include reading, vegetable gardening, slow cooking, snowshoeing, sudoku, traveling and birding.
She and her Labrador pup, Angus, enjoy sharing long doggie walks in the country with her sister, Ann, and her Golden Retriever pup, Skookum.
About the Illustrator:
Graphic designer and children\'s illustrator Claudia Dávila was born in Chile and now makes her home in Toronto.
She started drawing at five years old, and has never studied at art school.
The thing she likes most about creating children’s books is that she doesn’t have to pretend to be cool or hip so there’s more room to be creative and let her style expand to suit the topic and readership. Also, each book is a brand new project, so there is always an exciting project in the works.
She says:
Most of my illustrations are done on the computer after a pencil sketch that is scanned in. The forms, color, texture and shading are all done in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
If you like drawing, draw a lot. If you like writing stories, write a lot. If you like making things or taking photos, do it as much as you can! Everyone has an artist inside of them.
Other Books Illustrated by Claudia:
The Insecto-Files
Science on the Loose: Amazing Activities and Science Facts You’ll Never Believe
Mother Goose Unplucked: Crazy Comics, Zany Activities, Nutty Facts, and Other Twisted Takes on Childhood Favourites
CHECK THIS OUT:
Claudia’s on-line comic, Luz, Girl of the Knowing
www.transmission-x.com/luz/2007/10/26/hello-world/
WEBSITE:www.claudiadavila.com
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