Making Grizzle Grow
Emily's dad is too busy to play with her, so she angrily stomps out to the snowy backyard and makes Grizzle, a dinosaur. But Grizzle turns out to be a bad-tempered dinosaur that always wants more to eat and keeps growing and growing. How will Emily get Grizzle under control?
About the Author
Rachna Gilmore is from Ottawa, ON
Rachna Gilmore is the award-winning author of over a dozen titles for children of all ages, including The Sower of Tales, A Screaming Kind of Day, Mina's Spring of Colors and A Group of One. She has won the Governor General's Award, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor, and her work has appeared on the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age List. She has also been nominated for many child-juried awards, including the Silver Birch Award, The Red Maple Award, the Hackmatack Award, and the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award. Her fantasy novel, The Sower of Tales, won the National Chapter IODE Violet Downey Book Award.
Born in India, Rachna has lived in London, England, and in Prince Edward Island. Today she makes her home in Ottawa, Ontario.
About the Illustrator
Leslie Elizabeth Watts is from Stratford, ON
Leslie Elizabeth Watts is a writer and fine artist who has illustrated over ten picture books for children, including The Baabaasheep Quartet, You Can't Rush a Cat, There's a Mouse in My House, The Most Beautiful Kite in the World, and Princess Stinky-toes and the Brave Frog Robert, which she also wrote. She has won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrators' Award, the Shining Willow Award, the Blue Spruce Honour, an Ontario Library Association Best Bets, and Honorable Mention in the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award.
Born in Weston, Ontario, Leslie now lives in Stratford, Ontario.
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Suggested Activities
- Draw a picture of a snow sculpture you might make. If there is snow outside when you are reading this, try making your snow sculpture and take a picture of it.
- Using clay or play dough, make a model of a dinosaur.