What if?
From Worries to Wonder
- Publisher
- Acorn Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2020
- Category
- General
- Recommended Age
- 4 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- p to 3
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781773660615
- Publish Date
- Oct 2020
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
Anxiety. It's tough. It's tough for kids. It's tough to parent. That deep-rooted fear of what might happen, the atmosphere of self-doubt, the attack of fear: What if something bad happens? What if I don't know? What if they laugh? Or if i cry? But...what if something good happens? What if you laugh? And you make a friend?
What If? Is a humour-filled, edgy, tender picture book that portrays what it feels like to have anxiety and responds to it with the potential of whimsy and joy. Doretta Groenendyk's new book What if? takes the young, worried child to journey through layered images of panic and into the delight of possibility.
About the author
Doretta Groenendyk, a painter, writer, and teacher, lives with her husband and three children on a small spot of land in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Doretta is the author and illustrator of several children’s books by both The Acorn Press and Nimbus Publishing. Snow for Christmas, Thank You for My Bed, and I’m Drawing a Picture, have been shortlisted for the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration. She also cowrote Spin to Sea with her daughter Izra Fitch.
