Dear Street - Lindsay Zier-Vogel

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Résumé :
A girl shares her love for her neighborhood, and finds that love multiplies. Alice loves her street. But others, Grumble, grumble, more construction, grumble, don't agree. So Alice writes her street a love letter, which she leaves for someone to find. As Alice encounters people grumbling about other things - the park, falling leaves, the snow - she writes those thing love letters, too, and leaves them to be found. Then, one day, when Alice herself is grumbling, she discovers a letter someone else has written to the spring crocuses. And Alice feels the joy she's been spreading come back to her! A timely message for kids everywhere: showing gratitude changes perspectives and lifts spirits!

Biographie:
Lindsay Zier-Vogel is a writer and arts educator and the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. After studying contemporary dance, she received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Her writing has been widely published in Canada and the United Kingdom, and her hand-bound books are housed in the permanent collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto. Since 2001, she has been teaching creative writing workshops in schools and communities. She is also a professor for the professional writing program at Humber College and is a columnist with Open Book. Her debut novel, Letters to Amelia, was published in 2021. Lindsay lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Caroline Bonne-M?ller was born in France, raised in the Netherlands and has also lived in Malaysia. After studying fashion design in Amsterdam, she worked as a fashion designer for fourteen years. She has been fascinated by picture books since she was a child, but the idea to illustrate them one day was planted after she had her three children. Caroline has illustrated several picture books, including Portrait of an Artist: Claude Monet; Beatrix and her Bunnies: The Story of Beatrix Potter; and So Much More to Helen! The Passions and Pursuits of Helen Keller. Her illustrations have also appeared in magazines, on greeting cards and even on jigsaw puzzles! Caroline now works and lives near Lucerne, Switzerland, looking over a lake and mountains, with her husband, three kids and four cats.