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Julia, Child
  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780735264014
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $16.99

Julia, Child

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EBook
8 July 2014
Paperback
15 May 2018
Hardback
1 Oct 2014
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A charming, whimsically illustrated picture book about joie de vivre, told from the perspective of a child named Julia who loves to cook. Sure to be savored by readers of all ages.


     Julia and Simca are two young friends who agree that you can never use too much butter -- and that it is best to be a child forever. Sharing a love of cooking and having no wish to turn into big, busy people who worry too much and dawdle too little, they decide to create a feast for growing and staying young. A playful, scrumptious celebration of the joy of eating, the importance of never completely growing up and mastering the art of having a good time, Julia, Child is a fictional tale loosely inspired by the life and spirit of the very real Julia Child -- a story that should be taken with a grain of salt and a generous pat of butter.
  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780735264014
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $16.99
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About the authors

Kyo Maclear

KYO MACLEAR is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and children's author. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages and published in over twenty-five countries. She is the author of the hybrid memoir Birds Art Life (2017), winner of the Trillium Book Award. Kyo holds a doctorate in environmental humanities and is on faculty at the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA.
portrait photo of Kyo Maclear

Julie Morstad

JULIE MORSTAD is the author and illustrator of Today, How To and Time Is a Flower, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize, and a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, among other honors. She has illustrated many other beloved stories for children, including Kate DiCamillo’s The Puppets of Spelhorst. In 2018, she illustrated a stamp for Canada Post. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
portrait photo of Julie Morstad

Praise for Julia, Child

PRAISE FOR Julia, Child:

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards

"Julia, Child is not only a book about the joy of cooking, but the wonder of childhood, and, like the best cooking, is meant to be savored. . . . I guarantee it'll leave you hungry." --The National Post

"There is a dash of truth in [the idea that children are wise in ways that adults have forgotten]--enough to make quite appetizing this gracefully illustrated book." --The Wall Street Journal

"Maclear works in a genre that I believe she has invented: the fictional childhood anecdote of a famous person. Here she takes elements from the life of chef Julia (no-comma) Child and transposes them to the childhood of a little girl, also named Julia. Morstad's illustrations, which show children in full colour and adults in line-drawn black and white, are full of jokey details. . . . The sight of adults running amok is always a pleasure. . . . And what child has not come to the conclusion, along with Julia, that 'too many grown-ups don't have the proper ingredients'?" --Featured Review, Quill and Quire