Different Dragons (Young Puffin)
by Jean Little
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Timid Ben learns how to deal with his fears when he spends the weekend with Aunt Rose and meets a big Labrador retriever named Gully.Tags
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Biblio-therapy at its finest - not. Even the cover on my edition is unappealing, pastel drawing of a child looking out a window watching a girl playing with a big dog. The 'dragons' are, of course, the fears of our heart we need to conquer. I know what it's like to be timid, but I can't imagine any point in my life when this book would have been either enjoyable or helpful to me. It's just plain earnest & obvious. Virtually no humor, only one scene of *very* mild tension. The four pix by Fernandez do not add anything to the book except to make it even shorter.
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Jean Little was born in Taiwan in 1932. She was born with a severe eye problem and is severely visually impaired. Little grew up in Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto. A special "talking" computer assists her with her writing. She has a retired seeing-eye dog named Ritz and a new one named Pippa, with whom she travels. Little has show more written more than 50 children's books. Her childhood experiences inspired her to write books about children with physical disabilities or facing personal difficulties. She won a number of awards, including a Canadian Library Association (CLA) Book of the Year Medal and a Canada Council Children's Literature Award. Little has been writing children's books for over forty years. Listen for the Singing was the Canada Council Children's Literature Award winner in 1977. Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird was the CLA Book of the Year in 1985. Little's first book, Mine for Keeps, won the Little Brown Children's Book Award in 1962 and was republished by Viking Penguin in 1995. Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, won the 2001 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award. She awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People in 1974 for her entire body of work. She received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. She was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1993. Jean Little died on April 6, 2020, at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1986
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- English, French
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