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Turns on a Dime (Stoddart $8.95) &Midnight in the Mountains (Orca $17.95)
Having taught elementary school for twenty years, Julie Lawson of Sooke has emerged as one of Canada's most prolific and versatile authors-at a rate of at least two new titles per year.
Set in the Fifties, Turns on a Dime (Stoddart $8.95) is the second book in Lawson's Goldstone trilogy.
Pre-teen Jo is betrayed by a glamorous older friend, abandoned by the new kid in town and discovers she's adopted. Only the goldstone pendant and a story she inherits from her grandmother save her from loneliness and reveal the path to inner strength.
Lawson, whose titles include White Jade Tiger and The Dragon's Pear!, advocates the Whole Language approach. "Whole language integrates different areas of the curriculum under one umbrella,"; she says.
In the second collaboration between illustrator Sheena Lott and Lawson, Midnight in the Mountains (Orca $17.95), a little girl, the only one awake, listens to the gentle sounds of a winter's night and recalls the joys of the day.
She hears the brush of wings and thinks of snow angels. The quiet reminds her of the squeak of snow.
Lawson is a writer-in-residence at the Pierre Berton House Writer's Retreat in Dawson City where she is working on a children's novel set during the Klondike. Dime 0-7737-5942-5; Midnight 1-55143-113-0
[BCBW WINTER 1998]
Set in the Fifties, Turns on a Dime (Stoddart $8.95) is the second book in Lawson's Goldstone trilogy.
Pre-teen Jo is betrayed by a glamorous older friend, abandoned by the new kid in town and discovers she's adopted. Only the goldstone pendant and a story she inherits from her grandmother save her from loneliness and reveal the path to inner strength.
Lawson, whose titles include White Jade Tiger and The Dragon's Pear!, advocates the Whole Language approach. "Whole language integrates different areas of the curriculum under one umbrella,"; she says.
In the second collaboration between illustrator Sheena Lott and Lawson, Midnight in the Mountains (Orca $17.95), a little girl, the only one awake, listens to the gentle sounds of a winter's night and recalls the joys of the day.
She hears the brush of wings and thinks of snow angels. The quiet reminds her of the squeak of snow.
Lawson is a writer-in-residence at the Pierre Berton House Writer's Retreat in Dawson City where she is working on a children's novel set during the Klondike. Dime 0-7737-5942-5; Midnight 1-55143-113-0
[BCBW WINTER 1998]
Submitted on July 7, 2003 in By David.
