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"THE GROVEHILL GANG"
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WHAT
THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT 'THE GROVEHILL GANG' BOOKS
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'Each
page has the story written in both simple and advanced language so
that children of all ages can enjoy them.' Bookmarks, Victoria
Independent Booksellers
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'Ward
has turned her bunch of farm animals and pets into storybook heroes
with their real action antics.' Rural Voice, Ontario
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'Brightly
illustrated, these books feature a gentle, respectful attitude toward
animals.' Kingston This Week
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'The
Grovehill Gang series will encourage children in their very own
writing about things that really happened.' Mid-Island Parent Magazine
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'The
illustrations are wonderful and the story (Jake's Lunch) is
hilarious.' The Reporter, Sechelt, BC
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'The
animals come to life in Ward's books. It's easy to see her love
and respect for them.' River Valley News, New Brunswick
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TERRIFIC
BOOKS FOR A DAY OF READING
James Eke, Editor
The Reporter, Sechelt BC
I think Jake-the-dog and my
own pooch must be somehow related.
Qualicum Beach, BC's
Jacqueline Ward has done it again in a terrific children's book, Jake's
Lunch. The second in the fantastic Grovehill Gang series of
children's books, I'd have to say that I like Jake's Lunch even
more than The Naughty Seven, the first book in the series.
The story is about what Jake
and his other pup-friends do to the interior of their owner's car -
something I know about personally after our family's furry friend decided
to lunch on the insides of a rental car we had during a recent summer
vacation.
Not only are Ward's
illustrations wonderful, but the story is hilarious.
Hopefully Ward will have
many more Grovehill Gang books coming out in the very near
future. Look for them in the bookstores, they're great.
September, 2000
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| TAKING
FARM LIFE TO THE PRINTED PAGE |
Robert Mercer
Rural Voice, The Magazine
of Agricultural Life- Ontario
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How
often have you said to yourself "I think I should
write a book about that" and never got around to
doing it? Well, I went to a farm where some of those farm
stories are making it to the bookshelves.
Jackie Ward has done
it. The characters, the Grovehill Gang, may sound
like life with a bunch of thugs on the wrong side of the
tracks, but this gang makes tracks all over the farm.
These lovable creatures not
only live on the land, they now live in the pages of two
self-published children's books written and illustrated by
Jacqueline Ward of Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island.
Jackie has turned a bunch
of farm animals and pets into storybook heroes with their
real action antics and a little make believe. The
animals are all real, the stories real of both what did
happen and also what shouldn't have happened.
Jackie won't put the folks
at Ontario Agri-Foods Education out of business, but she
is helping bridge |
that gap between consumers and the farm.
There
is no easy money in self-publishing, but Jackie Ward has
gone from concept to completion with help from the family,
hard work, some rejection slips and a whole lot of
down-to-earth determination.
Just like farming, Jackie
says, "we'll do it 'til the money runs out."
Hopefully the money will last and increase as there is a
whole series of books planned to immortalize this gang of
critters that are more family than farmyard.
The books aim at the Grade
2/3 level and carry the approach of good and gentle care
of animals as well as trying to immortalize her animal
friends that have such short lives.
Twenty years in the school
system has taught Jackie how to deal with children. As an
entrepreneur, the marketing has been more of a learning
experience. She has a website www.thegrovehillgang.com
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THE GROVEHILL GANG
RIDES AGAIN
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Nancy Whelan
Mid Island Parent Magazine |
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My granddaughter first
met some of the Grovehill Gang when Jacqueline Ward used to invite
her up to Grovehill Farm to help with the horses. Little did
she or I know at that time that the Grovehill animals would one
day be the featured and hilarious characters in a series of Ward's
children's books about The Grovehill Gang.
Author, illustrator
and publisher Jacqueline Ward has just released the second book in
this series, Jake's Lunch, the tale of a rascally
Australian/German Shepherd who thinks mostly about where his next
meal is coming from and involves the other Grovehill canines in
his escapades.
Besides the sharp,
uncluttered, and colourful illustrations to which youngsters can
easily relate, here is a story, like all the Grovehill tales, that
really happened. As in Ward's first book, The Naughty
Seven, which served to introduce the dogs, horses, pigs and
cows of Grovehill, the format of Jake's Lunch is one that
will delight children, their parents and teachers alike.
The books are handy in
size and shape and the printing is clear and in the style of
school-taught printing. To get the very youngest readers
involved in reading, on each page, below the main text, is a
single, short sentence in big print that tells the gist of the
tale and gives the young ones a chance to read their own story.
Another great feature
of the books is that all the text is on the left page, and all the
pictures are on the right. This makes them so handy for
folding back the picture page to show to children as you
read. Primary teachers will love it! When it comes to
children's own reading with expression, understanding, and joy in
language, words to be emphasized are subtly underlined, darkened,
or italicized. When they read, "Jake ran galumphing up the
drive," they get the taste of truly descriptive words.
When they suddenly catch the fun of word like 'pigtionary' they
start to enjoy the magic and jokes to be found in words. Jake's
Lunch is a good read for five-to-eight-year-olds, and the
Grovehill Gang Series will encourage children in their very own
writing about things that really happened.
Remember this
book for birthdays and Christmas, or just to enjoy with any of
your favourite youngsters.
December, 2000
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SOME GREAT ADDITIONS
TO SUMMER READING
James Eke,
Editor
The Reporter,
Sechelt BC
Jacqueline Ward of
Qualicum Beach dropped by The Reporter's office the other day
with the book she recently self-published, called The Naughty
Seven.
The Star of the book is PigPig, a pet pig that lives with an assortment
of other animals on Grovehill Farm.
Ward, who has been an
elementary school teacher for over 20 years, has done a fantastic job
with the book. And according to press material, she is working on
a second book in what will likely be a series on the farm animals, the
Grovehill Gang. Not to give the story away at all, but the
whimsical tale revolves around PigPig and some information the
700-pounder picked up while eavesdropping.
This is a great book. Any
new reader from about six to nine-years would love it!
July 9, 2000 |
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