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edition:Paperback
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category: Children's Fiction
published: Oct 2006
ISBN:9780887807169
publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited

Toby Laughs Last

by Jean Lemieux, illustrated by Sophie Casson, translated by Sarah Cummins

tagged: beginner, emotions & feelings
Description

When Toby climbs too high in a tree to rescue a kite, he tumbles to the ground and has to go to hospital. The doctors stick tubes down his throat and bandage him up - with the result that Toby finds he can't laugh any more.

About the Authors

Jean Lemieux

JEAN LEMIEUX is a doctor, as well as an author of many popular and award-winning children's books. After working for many years on the Magdalen Islands, he now resides in Quebec.

Sophie Casson has illustrated more than twenty-five books, including The Artist and Me by Shane Peacock, a finalist for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and Helen’s Birds by Sara Cassidy, selected as part of IBBY Canada’s Silent Book collection. Her highly acclaimed illustrations are inspired by etchings, silkscreen works and Japanese woodblock prints. Sophie’s award-winning work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times and Nature, as well as in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Sophie lives in Montreal, Quebec.


Sophie Casson has illustrated more than twenty-five books, including The Artist and Me by Shane Peacock, a finalist for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and Helen’s Birds by Sara Cassidy, selected as part of IBBY Canada’s Silent Book collection. Her highly acclaimed illustrations are inspired by etchings, silkscreen works and Japanese woodblock prints. Sophie’s award-winning work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times and Nature, as well as in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Sophie lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
6 to 9
Grade:
2 to 5
Reading age:
6 to 9
Awards
  • Winner, Best Books for Kids & Teens - Canadian Children's Book Centre
Editorial Review

"Jean Lemieux ... and Sophie Casson ... have created a book that can comfort and entertain ... Toby Laughs Last is an important story about how serious accidents can be. Recommended.

— CM: Canadian Review of Materials
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