The Bone Talker
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2005
- Category
- General, Friendship
- Recommended Age
- 4 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- p to 3
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550413502
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $9.95
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About the authors
Multi-genre writer Shelley A. Leedahl assuredly shifts her creative focus between critically acclaimed books of poetry, short fiction, novels, and children's literature. With I Wasn't Always Like This the seasoned writer now adds creative non-fiction to her literary repertoire. Her numerous titles include Wretched Beast, Listen, Honey, Orchestra of the Lost Steps, The Bone Talker (with illustrator Bill Slavin), The House of the Easily Amused and A Few Words for January. Leedahl's work has appeared in anthologies ranging from The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2013 to Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Creative Nonfiction, Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada, and Outside of Ordinary: Women's Travel Stories. Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Leedahl now makes her home in Ladysmith, BC. Aside from literary writing, she also works as a freelancer, editor, and writing instructor.
Shelley A. Leedahl's profile page
Multiple award winning illustrator Bill Slavin was born in Belleville, Ontario. His work includes the acclaimed 'Stanley's Party' written by Linda Bailey, 'Who Broke the teapot!' as well as more than 100 award winning children's books.
Among his many honours, Bill has won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Blue Spruce Award, the California Young Reader Medal and the Zena Sutherland Award for Children's Literature. Recently, he has returned to his childhood love of comics and graphic novels, writing and illustrating the graphic novel trilogy Elephants Never Forget, as now the Mordecai Crow trilogy. Quid Pro Crow is Bil's second book with Renegade Arts Entertainment.
Editorial Reviews
"The Canadian team of Leedahl and illustrator Bill Slavin has created an impressive book. It is Leedahl's first picture book and it is sensitive and exquisitely told, loaded with imagery, including similes and metaphors. . . Subplots in the story are many: loneliness, growing old, sense of community, the value of keeping busy, to name a few. Children, with their boundless imaginations and inhibitions, and an energetic teacher could make a terrific short play out of the story. Older kids might enjoy reading The Bone Talker to younger ones. Those same older young people could read the book for its literary value, studying a variety of poetic expressions that appears in it. I obviously love Leedahl's book and would recommend it to all ages."
— Lane Education Service District (5 Stars out of 5)
