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Scribbling Women : True Tales from Astonishing Lives

Scribbling Women : True Tales from Astonishing Lives Hardcover - 2011

by Jocelyn, Marthe

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  • Hardcover
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Toronto, ON, Canada: Tundra Books, Incorporated/Livres Toundra, Incorporated, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Includes: Sei Shonagon, Margaret Catchpole, Mary Hayden Russell, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Isabella Beeton, Mary Kingsley, Nellie Bly, Daisy Ashford, Ada Blackjack, Dang Thuy Tram, Doris Pilkington Garimara..
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  • Title Scribbling Women : True Tales from Astonishing Lives
  • Author Jocelyn, Marthe
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition.
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tundra Books, Incorporated/Livres Toundra, Incorporated, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date 2011
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 021585
  • ISBN 9780887769528 / 0887769527
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Women, Women authors
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010928788
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

Toronto-born MARTHE JOCELYN is the award-winning author and illustrator of over twenty books. Her picture book Hannah’s Collections was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Illustration. Her novel Mable Riley won the inaugural TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Marthe Jocelyn is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work.

Media reviews

“[CBC’s] Children's Book Panel recommends some great summer reading for kids… Scribbling Women by Marthe Jocelyn….”
—Michele Landsberg, CBC Radio

“…Do you have to ask why I think this is the best sort of book for any girl who wants to be a writer, or any grown up female author who wants to know the great company she is now part of?”
Bookslut

“…an astonishing, intriguing biography, sampler and study of writing and character….”
—The Toronto Star
 
“…eye-opening work….”
—Booklist
 
“Jocelyn draws on real scholarship to paint novelistic portraits of her subjects’ inner lives. The women here truly live up to their billing as ‘astonishing.’”
–School Library Journal

  “This beautifully written text evokes women’s private lives down through history as revealed in their own, often astonishing, words… Well researched, informative and engaging… Jocelyn engages the reader’s imagination through her accessible language, attention to historical detail, creative description and narrative skill.”
—Norma Fleck Award, Jury Comments

Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2011, Page 72
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2011, Page 0
  • Quill & Quire, 05/01/2011, Page 36
  • School Library Journal, 08/01/2011, Page 129
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 06/01/2011, Page 0

About the author

Toronto-born MARTHE JOCELYN is the award-winning author and illustrator of over twenty books. Her picture book Hannah's Collections was short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award for Illustration. Her novel Mable Riley won the inaugural TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Marthe Jocelyn is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work.