Grampa, Will You Tell Me A Story: A 'Pickles' Children's Book
By (Author) Brian Crane
By (author) Dianne Young
Cameron & Company Inc
Baobab Press
9th October 2018
United States
Children
Fiction
813.6
Hardback
33
Width 279mm, Height 292mm
Brian Crane, creator of the highly acclaimed 'Pickles' Comic Strip, illustrates his first-ever children's book. Story by acclaimed Canadian children's book author, Dianne Young.
I think I might love it! - Scarlet (age 6)
I like it when my gramps tells me stories like [this]! - Liam (age 4)
Ostrich! Whale! I like that. I want that. - Padgett (age 2)
I like that the kid is correct and the grandpa is all wrong! That grandpa is so silly! - Nate (age 10)
Oh . . . I get it! - Alice (age 10)
Brian Cranes, Pickles, appears in over 800 newspapers worldwide. He has been nominated three times for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year award by the National Cartoonists Society and won in 2013. Pickles has been nominated twice as Best Comic Strip, a prestigious award it won in 2001. Crane lives in Sparks, Nevada, with his wife and family, which consists of seven children and eight grandchildren.
Dianne Young is a retired educational assistant in an elementary school, a mother, a writer, and a yodeller. She was born and raised in Saskatchewan, and she has been writing for children for over twenty years. Her first book, The Abaleda Voluntary Firehouse Band, was published in 1990. Her fifth book, Dear Flyary, won the 2014 Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature