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Picture Book

The author as a child.

E

LEANOR

K

OLDOFSKY

pioneered the classical and jazz recording

industry in Canada. Her efforts have won her several Grand Prix du

Disques and Juno Awards for recording excellence, a Gemini, and

several other film industry awards for documentary filmmaking.

Examples of her work reside in almost every school board and university

in Canada. As a philanthropist and patron of the arts, Eleanor has

helped fund and support Canadians in music, fine arts, and theater.

Entering her eightieth year, she continues to write, co sponsor Ontario

theater, and guide local artists onto the world stage.

D

AVID

P

ARKINS

is the award winning illustrator of over fifty children's

books. He began his career at Dyfed College of Art in Wales, studying

wildlife illustration. He then went to Lincoln College of Art for three

years, and has been a freelance illustrator since his graduation in 1979.

He spent several years at the beginning of his career producing

illustrations for educational publishers, and has earned most of his keep

drawing for the British cartoon, The Beano. David Parkins lives in

England with his wife and nine year old daughter.

P

RAISE FOR

D

AVID

P

ARKINS

:

 David Parkins' illustrations are in the British tradition of Cruikshank

and Searle: ink lines that create the most complex of machines, 

not to mention the wonderful animals bursting with personality. 

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