The girl with the cat / Beverley Brenna ; illustrated by Brooke Kerrigan.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Markham, ON ; Brighton, MA : Red Deer Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portrait; 26 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780889955318
- 088995531X
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Arts & Creativity | BRENNA BEVERLEY | Available | 33111009796588 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Arts & Creativity | BRENNA BEVERLEY | Available | 33111010486948 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of a 2021 Saskatchewan Book Award in the category of Children's Literature.
Nine-year-old Caroline Markham visits the local art gallery -- and makes an extraordinary discovery. In one corner there is something even more compelling than the paintings. It's a sculpture of a girl named Nina with a cat named Sammy on her lap, sitting in a rocking chair. There is no Do Not Touch sign like on the paintings. And Caroline can actually push the chair back and forth, and pat Sammy. Then one day a sign is placed on the sculpture: Moving Soon.
It's a heart-breaker.
Here begins the inspiring story of one girl's successful fight to save Saskatoon's famous Mendel Gallery sculpture, rallying an entire city to her side, proving to all that one person can really make a difference, even against soaring odds.
This is all a true story. Caroline was a real girl. And the sculpture is still in Saskatoon today. Author Beverley Brenna worked with Caroline in Saskatoon Public Schools, and she has written the story with the endorsement of Caroline's family.
Illustrations by the inimitable Brooke Kerrigan catch the magic of this motivational story and the daring of Caroline's efforts to keep Nina and Sammy close by in her world.
"A young girl finds a new friend in an art gallery and shares all her secrets. And then she learns that the new friend is going to move away."-- Provided by publisher.