Children's Fiction Post-confederation (1867-)
What-If Sara
- Publisher
- Second Story Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1999
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), Homelessness & Poverty
- Recommended Age
- 5 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- p to 3
- Recommended Reading age
- 6 to 8
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781896764221
- Publish Date
- Oct 1999
- List Price
- $14.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896764207
- Publish Date
- Oct 1999
- List Price
- $7.95
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Description
Sara is always wondering "what if?" Caught up in the daily struggles in Depression-era Winnipeg, Sara’s busy parents can’t stop to answer. Sara's imagination turns into resourcefulness when her parents ask for help.
About the authors
Rhea Tregebov is the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently All Souls' (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019). She has also published five popular children's picture books including The Big Storm and What-If Sara, which are set in Winnipeg. She has edited ten anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction, most recently Arguing with the Storm. Her work has received a number of literary prizes, including the Nancy Richler Award for fiction (for Rue des Rosiers) as well as the Segal , Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, and the Malahat Review Long Poem Award for her poetry. Rue des Rosiers is her second novel. The Knife Sharpener’s Bell, her first, won the J.I. Segal Prize in English Fiction. Born in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg, Tregebov lived for many years in Toronto, working as a freelance writer, editor, and instructor. From 2005 to 2017 she taught Creative Writing at UBC. She is now an Associate Professor Emerita at UBC.
Leanne Franson spent her childhood winters in Regina and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, building snow forts while her dad watched hockey games on TV. She was a really bad skater -- but she could draw really well! In 1991, after she finished her BFA in Montreal, she started illustrating books. Leanne is fluently bilingual and has worked on books in English and French, illustrating in total over 100 picture books, chapter books, and textbooks. In 2012, she and her teenage son Benn returned to Saskatchewan, where she draws and makes ceramics in her acreage studio.
