Beautifully illustrated children\'s story about Canadian wildlife by famed Canadian conservationist and Governor General Award-winning author, Roderick Haig-Brown.
First published as a limited edition in 1980 by Colophon Books, ALISON\'S Fishing Birds by BC\'s acclaimed author and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown is the story of a young girl\'s encounter with some of BC\'s most intriguing river birds.
He was one of the first journalists in North America to document the devastating effects of hydraulic fracturing on rural communities..
He is the author of multiple non-fiction books, including Tar Sands, winner of the prestigious Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Saboteurs, winner of Canada\'s Governor General\'s Literary Award for Nonfiction.
Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning Canadian journalist who has been writing about the oil and gas industry for more than two decades.
She lives in Roberts Creek and can often be found scootering around with a travel kit of art supplies in her basket.
She was diagnosed with MS in 1996, so mobility issues play a part in her artistic practice.
When she is not busy bleaching found bones or picking up feathers, she works in her many sketch journals, which are also places to plan large-scale paintings.
Sheryl McDougald lives, rambles, paints, draws, photographs, photoshops, and otherwise explores the amazing visual buffet that is the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
Haig-Brown was a visionary in his time and his work is increasingly more relevant today.
He won the award again in 1963 for THE WHALE PEOPLE.
In 1947, Haig-Brown won the inaugural Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award, recognizing his 1943 novel STARBUCK VALLEY WINTER.
He was the author of 28 books.
About the Author Roderick Haig-Brown is known as one of BC\'s most influential and knowledgeable conservationists and naturalists.
ALISON\'S Fishing Birds is richly illustrated by acclaimed and talented artist Sheryl McDougald, and includes a preface by Valerie Haig-Brown.
As one of Haig-Brown\'s lesser-known stories, ALISON\'S Fishing Birds is a gem that is long overdue on the shelves of popular children\'s fiction.
For almost a century, Haig-Brown has been teaching children and adults alike to explore, learn, and respect our forests, oceans, and rivers.
Alison encounters many other Birds on her adventures and, true to Haig-Brown\'s other stories, every bird, whether it is the Osprey, the Heron, or the Merganser, all have a lesson to share about their life and the natural world around them.
Farther up the river bank, Alison catches a glimpse of the Belted Kingfisher hovering above the water, just waiting patiently for the perfect moment to "drop like a stone, headfirst in the water" only to emerge a few seconds later with a tiny wiggling silver fish in its beak.
She spends many hours watching the "fierce and splendid" bird as it fishes for dinner, "bob, bob, bobbing" as it skitters and dives below the surface, always emerging with a tiny fish.
Alison\'s favourite bird, the Dipper, lives along the river by her house.
Beautifully illustrated children\'s story about Canadian wildlife by famed Canadian conservationist and Governor General Award-winning author, Roderick Haig-Brown.
First published as a limited edition in 1980 by Colophon Books, ALISON\'S Fishing Birds by BC\'s acclaimed author and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown is the story of a young girl\'s encounter with some of BC\'s most intriguing river birds
