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edition:Paperback
category: Children's Fiction
publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd
by Bev Allinson, illustrated by Barbara Reid
Effie is an ant with a very loud voice. The other insects avoid her until an oblivious herd of elephant threatens them all. Then Effie's uniqueness saves the day.
Bev Allinson
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Barbara Reid is the bestselling author and illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, and the illustrator of over twenty five. She has won the Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, The Governor General's Award for Illustration and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award. In 2013 she became a member of the Order of Canada, and in 2015 she was named Honorary Chair of Family Literacy Day. Her book Picture the Sky won the 2018 CBC Fan Choice Award and was shortlisted for the 2018 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.
BARBARA REID is an acclaimed Canadian author and illustrator, who won the CBA Libris Award's Children's Author and Illustrator of the year in 2007. Creator of such favourites as: Sing a Song of Mother Goose, Read Me a Book, and The Subway Mouse, Barbara Reid is adored by children, parents and teachers alike.
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p to k
Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Our Choice
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