Pebbles to the Sea
Kirsten Lyon
, Marilyn Stanley
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Noelle Walsh
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Sara Conway
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Barry Kazimer
, Margaret Jones
, Jude Castillo
, Chantal Comeau
, Linda Leitch
, finn mulryan
, Joshua Lewis
, Natasa Ilic
, Heather O'Connor
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Melissa Kohlman
, Shannon Holmes
, Penny Gilman
, Deb Philippon
, Joe Mitchell
, Shayla Bradley
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Christopher Rossignol
, Tyler Webb
, Debra Fisher
, Sandra Perry
, Mathew Webb
, Susan Jang
, Chris Carvalho
, Andrea Pole
, Andy Holmes
, Sarah Schwartz
, Ed Gilman
, Linda Ham
, Sharon Bird
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Melissa Poremba
, Sonia Adams
, Christine Lion
, Margaret McKay
, Andrea Gillespie
, Donna Gamache
, joy mills
, Kathryn Galan
, Mary Lester
, Debbie Youngman
, Lara Maynard
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Penelope Penner
, Leslie Vermeer
, Jayne Barnard
, Ken Gilmour
, Diana Richardson
, Karen Kendrick
, Kim Cappellina
, Darlene Foster
, Karen Nordrum
, Jane Graham
, Thelma Ball
, Cathalynn Labonte-Smith
, Patricia McKeown
, Jen Bailey
, Alisa Robinson
, Hayley Chandler
, Hoda Montazeri
, diana kirkwood
, Sandra Furlotte
, Lisa Mallia
, Siobhan Laskey
editor@49thShelf.com
Two children feel adrift between the separate worlds of their parents …
With their father at the marina, and their mother in the workshop, Flo and Fée aren’t sure where they belong. But at least they can still have fun painting the treasures that wash up on the shore.
One day they hear a noise and see a stone trace an arc across the sky — it must be from Henri’s giant slingshot! They decide to go see him, but first stop at the café, where they chat with the piano player, then visit their artist-friend in her shop. When they finally reach Henri, he lifts them up onto ladders where they can see two islands that were once connected by an ice bridge. “Have the two islands separated? Like Maman and Papa?” Flo asks. But Henri tells them there’s a sand bridge underwater that links the islands, just as the girls still link their parents. Then he, like the piano player and artist, walks away with a brush and can of paint. Where can they all be going?
This richly nuanced story is inspired by the geography and close-knit coastal community of La Grave heritage site on Quebec’s Îles de la Madeleine. The French edition, Des couleurs sur la grave, won the prix Harry Black de l’album jeunesse.
