Children's Fiction Christmas & Advent
Sammy and the Miracles of Christmas
- Publisher
- Boulder Publications
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2007
- Category
- Christmas & Advent
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780978338138
- Publish Date
- Feb 2007
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
It's Christmas, and things are going a little mad in Sammy's house: his father is roaring and Nan is praying for the Lord to take her away. Here, in two of the oddest Christmas stories you will ever come across, we also meet a talking crow and a magic sculpin. The biting satire of Ray Guy, combined with the extraordinary artwork of Boyd Chubbs, is guaranteed make this Christmas a little more bearable.
About the authors
Ray Guy was born in Come By Chance, Newfoundland, and has enjoyed a colourful career as a journalist, playwright, actor, and satirist. He is a recipient of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his book, That Far Greater Bay. Ray also won a National Newspaper Award, and in 2001 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Memorial University.
Boyd Warren Chubbs was born in L'Anse Au Clair, Labrador on Bloomsday, 1955 to Una (nee Cribb) and Gordon Victor Chubbs. His poetry and music have been broadcast and featured on both regional and national CBC Radio and Television. He has received numerous private and public commissions for drawings and illuminations. From 1987 to 1990 Boyd was Poet-in-Residence at the former Nova Scotia Teacher's College in Truro. His previous books of poems include Lines from the Migrant Coast (Mokoshan, 1989), Through Solomon's Lane (Mokoshan, 1991), Poems from the Burntwoods (Creative Publishing, 1995), And You, Blessed Healer (Breakwater Books, 1996) and The Birth and Burial Grounds (Breakwater Books, 1999). A play-in-progress, A Day Upon the Wooden Crow, was given two stage-readings by the RCA Theatre Company in St. John's in 1998. His guitar compositions include two recordings, Spanish in the Harbour (1991) and Across Waters and Stones (1998). His three most recent art exhibitions at the Christina Parker Gallery in St. John's, A Land and Sea is Beyond Claim or Discovery (1998), Gifts and Allegories (2000) and I Make A Covenant With My Eyes (2003), were purchased en suite and remain in the province. Boyd lives in St. John's. All work continues and all are one.
