A Storybook written and illustrated by Bert Weir
This should be every Canadian child’s first story and book.”
Mary Jane Gomes, Artist Photographer and Filmmaker
“The Red Canoe” is a gentle children’s early reading illustrated storybook. Its journey to publication, has a tale of its own. During the early 1950’s Bert Weir and fellow artist Elena Zebrauskaite-Weir, raised three daughters on an island in McKellar’s Grey Owl Lake. Their home a rustic log cabin, their lives entwined with the nature that surrounded them. At bedtime Bert would tell daughters stories about the fish, birds, plants, animals and insects that they would meet on their evening paddle down Deep Bay.
It was at this time “The Red Canoe” found its genesis. The story was written, illustrated and laid out then. It was never published.
Discovered posthumously amongst the papers in Weir’s studio seventy years after it’s inception, “The Red Canoe” is now published.
“The Red Canoe” is a reflection of a time of innocence, a summer’s day with two children out in their red canoe.
Details:
Hardcover
8 by 10 inches, 29 by 26 cm
100 lb. paper
10 colour illustrations
10 pages printed both sides
Price:
Shipping to Canada 35.00 plus 5.00 postage CDN currency
International/US 35.00 plus 5.00 shipping in US currency
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