Children's Fiction Humorous Stories
Robyn's Want Ad
- Publisher
- Formac Publishing Company Limited
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1998
- Category
- Humorous Stories
- Recommended Age
- 5 to 10
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 5
- Recommended Reading age
- 5 to 10
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780887804595
- Publish Date
- Jan 1998
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Robyn is fed up with being an only child. She decides that having a part-time brother would be ideal. But the only person who answers her classified ad is her neighbour Ari and he wants Robyn to teach him piano. All she wanted was a brother, plain and simple, and now she's mixed up in Ari's plot to avoid his real piano lessons.
About the authors
Hazel Hutckins est l'auteure de plus de 30 livres pour enfants, y compris l'album illustré primé Mattland, une œuvre qui est aussi illustrée par Duan Petricic. Hazel vit à Canmore, en Alberta.
After many years of juggling writing, raising her children, and making a home with her now deceased husband, Hazel spends her days writing full time. Winner of Writer's Guild of Alberta Award for Children's Literature, she has written children's short fiction for Chirp, Chickadee, and Cricket.
When answering where the inspiration for A Second is a Hiccup came from, Hazel comments, "I decided to see if I could find other ways to describe time. When the writing began to flow in poetic form - and when I came up with the engaging title line A Second is a Hiccup - I knew I had begun a labor of love. The book went through many incarnations....in one version I actually brought in centuries and eons! Good grief! But it finally returned to exactly what it should be...immediate, simple and close-to-home. It is my sincere hope that children of all types will enjoy finding and celebrating, among the pages, the many ways they spend their time."
YVONNE CATHCART is an illustrator living in Toronto with her husband and son. She has illustrated many children\s books and also paints and makes animal sculptures and puppets.'
