Saturday at the Garage
- Publisher
- Midtown Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2020
- Category
- Parents, Cars & Trucks, City & Town Life
- Recommended Age
- 3 to 5
- Recommended Grade
- p to k
- Recommended Reading age
- 3 to 5
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781988242323
- Publish Date
- Feb 2020
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
It’s a Saturday and there is no school. The tone is the sixties. As he sometimes does, Dad invites his young daughter to spend the day with him at the garage he owns in Marpole, a neighbourhood of Vancouver. They arrive plenty early. The daughter helps with the opening of the garage and throughout the day there are chores to be done. She greets customers and regulars, looks after the cash register, takes care of the little shop, cleans up, and learns mechanics along the way. Dad and daughter have coffee, lunch and share a beautiful luminous day together. A regular customer tells her about elves in these parts. She is then wary of the situation but is not sure she believes in elves. Nancy Hundal recollects from her own experience a day spent with her father, cars and friendly customers. The relationship between the daughter and her father is patient and sweet.
About the authors
Nancy Hundal has previously published ten picture books with HarperCollins, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, and Midtown Press. Oolichan Press published her middle-grade novel Kaleidoscopes and Butterfly Dreams , in 2009, and she self-published a YA novel, Song Angel, in 2018. Many of her books have been nominated for the BC Chocolate Lily Award, and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year. Her first picture book, I Heard My Mother Call My Name, won the BC Book Prize in 1991.
Hundal has recently retired from a thirty-seven year career as a teacher-librarian in Vancouver, BC. This manuscript, which is about diversity, is the result of watching many students try to be the best friend they could be, even in challenging situations.
Hundal identifies as disabled, as she is deaf but able to hear almost normally with the help of a cochlear implant. See her website: nancyhundal.com
This is a first book for illustrator Angela Pan. She used her skills learned in the animation industry. She is a frequent exhibitor at VanCaf and other comic and graphic novels shows. She lives in Calgary
