BOOK A West Coast Summer

BOOK A West Coast SummerBy Caroline Woodard; illustrated by Carol Evans Pairing two dozen of Carol Evanss wonderful watercolours with a lilting rhyming story by Caroline Woodward, A West Coast Summer tells of a timeless, idyllic season where Sea salt in the air floats everywhere and cedars smell so sweet beside the shore. Children race bikes along sand flats, search under logs and in tide pools for tiny creatures, jig at the dock for herring, dance at a totem raising

wildlife encounters and everything in between

They have been inspired to use the herbs in our natural environment to create a collection of organic medicine

With the NIMC

teachers and readers interested in the history of Japanese Canadian internment

empty hours in which to write

these longer ‘just let it all hang low’ rise

In a variety of colours

round neck

The inter-island wars of ancient Greece are replaced by Canadian blizzards

applied for a position as a relief lightkeeper on a remote North Pacific island

poetry and history

She dedicates the book to the late Colleen McCrory