Product Description

This is perhaps Elizabeth Cleaver's best-loved picture-storybook, for which she produced a series of inimitable and memorable collages to illustrate a favourite Indian legend from the west coast of Canada. In 1977, the year it was first publsihed, it won the IODE Children's Book Award and the Amedlia Frances Howard-Gibbon Medal for illustration.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8337 in Books
• Published on: 1988-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 24 pages

Review

"A touchstone for picture book art in this country."--The Horn Book
"Elizabeth Cleaver brought to her work the sensibility of a fine artist and an inherent understanding of the child's view of the world. The children of Canada are unquestionably the richer for (her) achievements."--The Children's Book News (Toronto)

Ingram
Based on the Canadian Indian legend that explains how the loon got its white collar and the speckles on its back.

From the Publisher
Full colour illustrations throughout

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and haunting
Elizabeth Cleaver is one of the great names in children's literature, and "The Loon's Necklace" is just one example of her exquisite work. This retelling of an ancient American Indian myth is appropriate for children of all ages, and should be on every parent's "to give for Christmas" list.