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Kathy Stinson, author of internationally acclaimed Canadian children's classic, Red is Best and the TD Award Winner, The Man with the Violin, also writes novels, short stories, and nonfiction for young people of all ages. ...more

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	Red is Best by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Robin Baird Lewis (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 1,613 ratings — published 1982 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man with the Violin by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Dušan Petričić (Illustrator), Joshua Bell (Postscript) 4.26 avg rating — 817 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady with the Books: A Story Inspired by the Remarkable Work of Jella Lepman by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Marie Lafrance (Illustrator) 4.25 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bare Naked Book by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Melissa Cho (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dog Who Wanted to Fly by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Brandon James Scott (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 3.70 avg rating — 229 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Lauren Soloy 4.08 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dance of the Violin by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Dušan Petričić (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 186 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harry and Walter by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Qin Leng (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Happened to Ivy 3.43 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big or Little? by Kathy Stinson (Goodreads Author), Toni Goffe (Illustrator) 3.39 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1983 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A book I found both window and mirror. A window into a place and culture I’m not familiar with, vivid with detail. A mirror reflecting familiar emotions, beautifully expressed through the child narrator. Feelings of injustice, insecurity, grief: “I d ...more
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“Everything you have contact with will be woven into your garden”
― Kathy Stinson, Love Every Leaf: The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

tags: accumulation, contact, culmination, garden, labor-of-love, labors, labour-of-love, labours, love-every-leaf, oberlander, woven

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